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"Steve Bliss" <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:G15GM6.L5C@lugnet.com... (...) Heh...great work so far! I'll comment on points which I think need clarification. (...) Probably so. (...) of (...) We probably need to clarify commercial (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Here's a first stab at a comprehensive contributor/ldraw.org/user license. Geez, I'm glad IANAL. BTW, I think the "redistribution" bits should be reworked to clearly split 'redistributions for the sake of redistributing the library' from (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'm not sure this is practical. It also may not be enforceable. Someone may 'modify' the library in a way that ldraw.org can't use. For example, they may do a mechanical conversion of the files to a binary format, perhaps in a single file. (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: "Needs Work"- Needs Work
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(...) I am happy to incorporate / edit the existing text, and now I can see (URL) and the pages it links to, but these are some missing HTML end tags. Internet Explorer (4.0) can cope with these, but Netscape (4.08) cannot and just displays the raw (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Why don't you hold off until we've got a decent parts-contributor-license put together? Although, the last I knew, they got this group via e-mail. So I hope they're reading this now, and can support us on this. Steve (24 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: unofficial new primitive -- "Rounded Corner" [DAT]
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(...) Huh? The way you've got the file now, the sphere's centerpoint is at <1,1,1>. (...) The current orientation of the file has the 'bulge' going toward the origin, not away from it. So I'd say it's bulging inward. (...) You've got that whole (...) (24 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It was a bad idea, please ignore that paragraph. (...) Ok, any lawyers around ? Anyone wants to write a license with all of that fancy legal stuff ? (...) The important thing for the parts is to keep them free to use and people who improve the (...) (24 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: "Needs Work"- Needs Work
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"Thomas Burger" <Tburger666@aol.com> wrote in message news:G13G5x.3yn@lugnet.com... (...) The reason I didn't publish it was because I was waiting for it to be corrected gramatically. Since I'm not a parts author, I wouldn't be comfortable doing it (...) (24 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) yes it is a false link , tim never published the stuff i sent him (24 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) What Todd (and I) were commenting on was this (optional) provision: (...) Which is different from your statement above, and would block TLC from using the parts unless their program was free. Before finalizing the licenses, it would be (...) (24 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) TLC won't use our parts directly (interfacing maybe) but even if they want to, they can use the parts as long as they use the unmodified version or publish their changes under our license. Here's a link with several software licenses: (URL) (24 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'd definitely be somewhat concerned about a license which restricted the parts from being used with non-free programs. I'd hate to preclude the possibility of a really awesome commercial program being forced to re-invent the wheel, and (...) (24 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) One thing I forgot to add -- In the spirit of open content, I think that any license that comes about ought to at least require that the republisher of the data must give a link to www.ldraw.org so that anyone using the parts or any (...) (24 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G11svz.4IH@lugnet.com... (...) using (...) Something to be considered. I could give the Jessimans' an email soon (I haven't heard from them in a while) and ask them about the parts that James (...) (24 years ago, 17-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Sounds interesting. I would rather see it under something like Perl's Artistic License than GPL, though. How do you define "programs"? And the license should be careful not to preclude the possibility of LEGO using or interfacing with the (...) (24 years ago, 17-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I'd like to propose an official license for the LDraw parts, I think this is something that has been mentioned before but we didn't get very far in the past. This is important now that there are plans to create am LDraw CD-ROM and I need this (...) (24 years ago, 17-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev) !
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(...) It took me a while, but I finally realized why I'm so hesitant to re-orient this file... It's (part of) a sphere, and _all_ of the sphere (and disc/non-disc/edge) files are oriented such that the "centerpoint" (i.e., focus) of the (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ooo, ick. I'll look into that. There's plenty of code in LDAO that does substitutions like tabs to blanks and CRs to CRLFs, but I don't remember doing anything with commas. And I usually pass code around in text buffers, not using the inherent (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | guide to the common ledit runtime errors
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ledit can sometimes generate runtime errors. the 2 that are most relevent are: runtime error 216 (out of memory I think). This error means that the model or part file that you are trying to load is too large. the other one you will encounter is (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes, thanks to your message with explanatory image. :-) Please consider giving that to whomever is in charge of maintaining the L-CAD FAQ at ldraw.org. (...) Using Steve's sugggestion as well, I'll call it "1-8sphc.dat". I've also inserted (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Good suggestion. Except without the second dash, please. Could you make the title be: 1/8 Sphere Cut Off And add some comment lines, something like: 0 This figure is a sphere (radius 2^.5) intersected with a 0 standard-sized LDraw box (see (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yah, that would be the thing to do: send it to partsref@home.com. (...) I'm planning on using it in the skeleton leg, and maybe retro-fitting it into the minifig torso.[1] (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) There's a primitives group who decides if the primitive should be accepted or not (it's been a while since we last discussed anything so I don't know if it's still active). I don't have the list of members in this computer so I think the best (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) You mean you've managed to add the type 5 lines ? [snip] (...) To me, it's a special kind of sphere, so what fo you all think of 1-8sph-c.dat (standing for 1/8 of a sphere, cut of to fit in a corner) Greatings, M. Moolhuysen. (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I've finally put together an installation package for LDAO that should be safe. But it needs some more testing, before I publish it generally. Would someone be willing to try this out, and verify that it works? The test copy is at: (URL) Just (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: part number for "Animal Cattlehorn" and "Minifig Accessory Islander Crest"
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ACK!! Brain cramp, brain cramp! :-P I meant to say "6029a.dat" and "6029b.dat", respectively. That's "6", not "8". Really.... Thanks, Franklin (...) ===== Franklin Cain (and please do *not* call me "Frank" ;-) fwcain@yahoo.com | (URL) OR (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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OK, I've finished this primitive, but before I re-submit it, I need to know a couple of things... Just what do I call the DAT file? On my PC's hard drive, I'm calling it "RND-CRNR.DAT". Is that food enough? Also, what extra steps (if any) do I need (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | part number for "Animal Cattlehorn" and "Minifig Accessory Islander Crest"
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According to this post "(URL) part number for the sprue containing the cattlehorns and Islander crest is 8029. Therefore, I want to rename the DAT file for the cattlehorn piece to "8029a.dat", and the name I'll be using for the Islander crest will (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: "Needs Work"- Needs Work
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(...) Basically, the idea is that each new partfile would be carefully reviewed by a small number of people (between 1 and 3 reviewers per file, I think). Once the reviewers and the author agreed on the part, it would be released. As soon as I can, (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:G0sn7p.M08@lugnet.com... (...) This sounds like an interesting idea. I'd like to hear more. Adam (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Intersection of 2 3D lines?
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Travis Cobbs skrev i meddelandet ... (...) I have C-code at work to solve this, even if the lines are not co-planar. It calculates one point on each line (the 'nearest points'), and if they are the same, the lines are co-planar. Mail me at ai@cej.se (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Thanks to both of you. Given that this newsgroup covers both part development and cad program development (with part development getting more posts for obvious reasons), I probably should have specified that I needed to do this programatically. (On (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Off-topic: website building
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"Ryan J Farrington" <ryanjf2@juno.com> wrote in message news:20000913.090209...uno.com... (...) Though you did certainly hit an appropriate group to gain the attention of web authors/designers, I think the question was a tad too off-topic. Why not (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, thanks Steve. But you could easilly make it 3D couldn't you ?! 8) See ya (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) You can use the "Line Intersect" tab on my rotate.xls spreadsheet (get it from (URL)). It's only 2D, but you can do XY first, then XZ. The resulting XYZ values will be your intersection. Not as elegant as Rui's solution, but it works for me... (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Minifig Skeleton Arm - part number?...
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(...) It's 6265. Steve (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Off-topic: website building
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To all who have made their own websites: I am going to be building a website of my own, and I was curious which tools all of you have used to make yours. And does anyone write directly in HTML or JavaScript? Please respond to my personal e-mail (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) you just have to define the lines equation! as you now: Y = mX +b Z = nX +c defining a line as a function of X coord. Now, these lines probably are edges os something, or at least you have to points which belong to them, usint them, you can (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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If I have two co-planar lines in 3-space, does anyone know how I can determine their intersection? If it makes the equations easier, the plane that they are in is: Z = 1 - X - Y otherwise written X + Y + Z = 1 Anyone? --Travis Cobbs (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Minifig Skeleton Arm - part number?...
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(...) Well, I can't find one on it using my v1.0 Eyeball and Beaker ("Eeep!") accidentally installed MS Windows Y2K on the home-built electron microscope (powered by the surplus Soviet "Fusion Buddy" mini-reactor) so I obviously can't use THAT to (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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