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I have a Mac...am I screwed if I want to get in on this L-Draw gig? (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Excessive(?) use of Sub-parts (Was: New Part - 30200 Windscreen...)
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(...) Well, until the voting page is up, I won't say absolutely not. But I've got a bit of a backlog now (after moving/kids to camp/week at the lake/etc.), and I am seriously trying to get to a point where I can post the voting page. So if I get a (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Excessive(?) use of Sub-parts (Was: New Part - 30200 Windscreen...)
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Well guys, it looks like I need to warm up the 'ol inliner... and off to the LDAO world I go. :-) Steve, is there still any room for more parts in the next update? (As single file parts) I think I still have a coulple I haven't sent yet. Paul (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Oh, you're not going to be happy with the next update... (...) With a good caching strategy, subfiles should make a net improvement in performance. (...) For that part (<part:4186p01 the original soccer field baseplate>), a small grid of studs (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I am just a little concerned about the rapidly increasing number of files we produce. It gets harder to overview. I know nothing about rendering program's cacheing and what effect usage of sub-files have. There has to be a balance, sub-parts (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Scout and micro-scout dat file
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Thanks, I had submitted in the parts tracker after I sent the first message. Zhengrong (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: eliminating polygons?
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"Michael Horvath" <mikehorvath@juno.com> wrote in message news:Fxq871.3vM@lugnet.com... (...) part- (...) doing it. (...) their (...) a (...) On the contrary, you should feel free to hack away at LDraw parts to optimize them for your own usage. (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3Lab woes
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(...) Okay, this is the one I was using... Thanks! Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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Jamie Obrien wrote... (...) Thanks, your suggestions sound reasonable, I'll have them in mind. (...) L3P recognizes the light.dat file(s) if you call it with the -l option, see l3p.txt. The spotlite.dat file are, however, not supported: spotlights (...) (24 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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Sproaticus wrote... (...) Just to clear things up: the above is how I intend it to work in the next release. The newest release is v1.2 20000616. /Lars (24 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Oops! I thought I was running the latest... Lemme reinstall and play with the newer one... (...) Personally, I'd remember to switch it on and off, though I do understand that many (most?) users might forget. (...) That would be great! (...) (...) (24 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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| | RE: Status on 2000-02
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(...) No problem. We're used to waiting :) --Bram Bram Lambrecht BXL34@po.cwru.edu (URL) (24 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts authoring help wanted
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(...) Let's see ... Y- X- | Z+ \ | / \|/ + /|\ / | \ Z- | X+ Y+ (sorry this isn't to scale) (...) Probably not a bad idea. (...) I did publish an EXCEL file with several utility functions, called rotate.xls. But I'm not sure if that was the file you (...) (24 years ago, 13-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Status on 2000-02
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(...) I've got to tie up a couple of loose ends, and post the voting pages. I just got back from vacation, and my life has been unusually hectic for the last month or so. So the update has been taking longer than expected. Steve (24 years ago, 13-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3Lab woes
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Sproaticus wrote... (...) The problem with s\973s01.dat is that it has a color 24 reference to a 2-4cyli.dat, to render the mark on the minifig's neck. (I guess the mark is for automatic optical control of which side of the minifig to print on?) I (...) (24 years ago, 12-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: L3Lab woes
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Sproaticus wrote... (...) Each time L3Lab is invoked with color depth less than last invokation. If you always use 16 bit, you'll get it only once per installation. (You won't even get it, if you install a newer L3Lab!) On the other hand, if you (...) (24 years ago, 12-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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ludo soete wrote... (...) Right. (...) Part authors are always very welcome, and your contribution will be much appreciated. I think the FAQ ((URL) has lots of info about the DAT format and description of primitives. (...) Try loading eg. part 3001 (...) (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) an (...) I should point out that it's not errors in my models that are triggering this message, but rather errors in parts files from the official parts updates. (1) This usually happens with patterned parts, like 973S01 (a subfile in the (...) (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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(...) see (...) Once per session, or once per installation? Once per installation would be keen. Also, it would be keen to be able to turn off and on error-reporting (e.g. missing parts, etc.) I use this feature when I'm creating a model or fixing (...) (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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