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This is one is for parts authors, I suppose... I never understood the relation between the original sloped cylinder primitives--1-4cyls.dat, 2-4cyls.dat--and the newer 1-4cyls2.dat. Both sets of files are the result of intersecting a cylinder with (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) Chris: Are you able to access this area yet? Steve (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Are fixes automatically included?
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(...) Currently, fixed parts are "automatically included", once the parts admin (ie: me) checks over the changes. And the fixed 2447 (the minifig visor) should look better with any color/treatment. Steve (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) Maybe it's the noise electronic components make when they emit smoke. Especially vacuum tubes, or anything located in a Mad Scientist's Laboratory. Steve (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: *** LDView v0.7 Released ***
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Travis Cobbs wrote... (...) I have also had second thoughts about the autocorrecting in L3Lab, when it is used for part inspection[1]. L3P and L3Lab share the input routines, which does several corrections. Some corrections are imperative to have (...) (24 years ago, 4-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi Franklin, I looked on both a blue feather sprue and a red one and could not find any numbers on either. HTH! Maggie C. (...) (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Ack phooey The number on the white headdress sprue is 6029, *NOT* 8029. Trying to read these tiny numbers first thing in the morning is painful. -Andy Lynch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Lynch" <andy@andyandjackie.com> To: (...) (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) Thanks for this comment. My computer is currently on the fritz¹², so I'll have to make these corrections at a later time and send them to Steve afterwards. Sorry about that. Fredrik __ ¹ Whereever does that idiom come from? ² See (...) (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) With there no visible number on the sprue, I'd say just go with numbering them P1, P2, P3, or some such thing, if you can put letters into the number. At least until you can find an official number. --Anthony (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Um I can't seem to find a # on the sprue anywhere. anyone else have any luck? maybe it is real small. Now where did I put the microscope. John (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hmmm....after thoroughly examining a feather wheel for about 5 minutes or so, I can find no such number...strange, there's one on almost every other lego item.... -Chris (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I have a number of plume-sprues of different sizes (I assume from different years), but none of them seem to be stamped with part numbers. - Mike. (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) While the setup of this part is not the best style, there are many parts already in the library with similar designs. It's kind of a middling quality thing. I'd like to see this fixed, but I don't think this deserves a "needs work" tag. Also, (...) (24 years ago, 3-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: *** LDView v0.7 Released ***
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"Rui Martins" <Rui.Martins@link.pt> wrote in message news:Pine.GSU.4.10.1...0@is-sv... (...) Because (...) its a (...) check (...) detected. Good point. I think I'll add an option in LDView to enable/disable warnings/errors during model loading. I (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Lars Hassing pointed that out to me this morning, and I plan to fix it. In the meantime, I would say a "needs work" tag would not be out of order. Dave! (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, for usability sake, we should correct what we can, but this is a dangerous feature, if we don't issue at least some warnings about it. Because this will lead the authors to get sloppy (please don't take me wrong here, its a Human factor) (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Windows with Glass (Was: Voting Open...)
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(...) Yes, and yes. But as long as the other classic windows are glassed this way, I follow the "standard" James set, or else it would look strange to mix them with the other ones. -- Tore Eriksson Sweden ICQ: 76066510 LEGO: MOC++++ FS,SP,TO++ TC+ (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I'm new to the whole parts update process. Are the fixed parts automatically included in the update? The reason I ask is because the new version of 2447 looks hugely better than the old version when viewed using blended alpha instead of stipple (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Part 30223 contains co-planar polygons. View it in L3Lab with random colors turned on to graphically see what I'm talking about. Is this considered ok, or should this qualify as "Needs work"? --Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I'll give it a twirl!! No more DXF's!!! I use 3DS MAX, but have Polytrans, so conversions from LWO to MAX is a snap. Maybe I will test this weekend, and FINALLY, maybe, get Bram Lambrecht's awesome mining truck rendered! Thanks! Eric Regner soon to (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: *** LDView v0.7 Released ***
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"Paul Easter" <pneaster@knoxy.net> wrote in message news:G070Ks.Er5@lugnet.com... (...) part (...) lighting (...) else (...) parts. (...) into (...) don't (...) Y (...) Well, as I said, I'm not sure it's a no-no; either way the next version of (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Not sure about the drivers, I try to stay current, however since I have started modeling parts in my spare time, I have not played many games to worry about keeping them up. ;-) I also have another computer here with Win98se and a Voodoo1 (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) conditional). (...) Hello, Here is the list of things I found. Some of the line issues may just be my viewer not displaying quite right on my monitor. If there are any questions, please ask, and I will re-check and create a picture showing (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | New Converter from LDraw To Lightwave
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Hello, a new converter exists since a few days. It can convert LDraw Objects (*.DAT) into Lightwave Objects (*.lwo) and Lightwave Scene Files (*.lws) (compatible with Version 5.5, 5.6, 6.x); running under Win 95 / 98 / NT / 2000. It is completly (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) Nah, just chatting about FAQ publishing theory. Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) Well I cannot access it !! If you want me to take the contents of this into account for the FAQ/Tutorial, can you get the pages to me some other way? In what context was Sproat talking to you about this - is he also doing some work on an (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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OK, I confess. I'm responsible for ldglite, although I can't really claim to have done much of anything "original". I just pasted a bunch of other folk's code together because I wanted something portable. Don (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:6mosqsgdgu0vgi4...4ax.com... (...) resource) (...) Well, I don't play with server settings, and AFAIK it shouldn't be restricted. But the URL is not intended to be public (so it can't be (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | [somewhat of topic] STARWARS
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Has any of you already seen this (URL) just awesome See ya Rui Martins P.S. There goes my salary down the drain again. (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) Your welcome, I'll see if I can actually write some of them up for you. (...) Hmm. Must be restricted. I don't know if that was on purpose or not. Tim? Jacob? Steve (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Based on an ealier thread in which he responed to my post of L3DView (since renamed to LDView), that would be Don Heyse, who at the time listed his e-mail as dheyse@hotmail.spam.....away.com. --Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com) (Remove .REMOVE (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) I (...) Thanks Steve, that's a useful list of topics to start with. Is access to Tom Burger's tools at (URL) somehow restricted, as I cant seem to access it? I get a (Couldn't find the resource) page. Chris (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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(...) A tutorial would be nice, but a FAQ would be easier to put together. Some additional material/ideas: See (URL) for CATEGORY/KEYWORD. Probably needs to be boiled down, it seems long. I posted three basic guidelines about orientation & (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) Dunno. I can't tell, looking at the part. I thought about coding those as color 16, but I didn't. It would probably be more useful to make it the same color as the plain brick. Steve (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-02
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(...) About 5 of those are original authors of parts that are being fixed by someone else. If that makes any difference. Steve (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Nope. I'll leave the voting open until votes stop coming in (got 5 in the last 24 hours). Once I get a day or two without votes, I'll post a "voting closing soon" post. After voting actually closes, you can count on at least week before the (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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[FUT lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw] In lugnet.cad.[various], Sproaticus wrote: [snipped details] (...) There's not one yet, but I've been thinking more about putting one together. I think having such a document will more important in the very near (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Who wrote LDGLite ((URL) I know who wrote LDLite, and I see a bunch of thanks at the bottom of the page, but I can't find the original author! James (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I agree. I did not completely understand all the discussions about the orientation of that part. But I wouldn't change the Y position. I think that basically this part is to be attached with the pegholes on the side, and then rotated around (...) (24 years ago, 30-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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