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Hi all! I'm new on Lugnet so please be patient with me if this was yet mentioned. Can somebody tell me what's the best CAD software to create LEGO models on computer ? I mean which CAD is most easy to control, has most parts etc. ? Thank you all for (...) (24 years ago, 19-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New part coming soon... 2605, 2606, and spring
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(...) Yes, I did use your spring2dat program. Excellent job! I was able to adjust and re-create a spring to fit in seconds! Only one change you need to make, The Description and Author lines get thier data swapped. No biggie, it's easy to adjust (...) (24 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi Paul, Did you use my spring2dat program to make the spring ? (...) (24 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Can you give me or send email some info on how to use the command line? I don't think I am feeding it the right information. I have version 1.0b. (...) ummm... yeah, I can't get the render button to automatically update though. I asked Steve (...) (24 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Got it! the line was not there. I have played with this quite a bit, so I'll try to explain what it did. L3lab was set to the default viewer, when I open the part to edit, L3lab also starts and changes the part view as changes are made. :D The (...) (24 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Don't think so, see here: (URL) it may be in another WW set that I can't think of right now. There are two, however, in <set:6248 6248 Volcano Island>: (URL) "pirates", perhaps, instead? Cheers, Heather -- Heather Patey St. John's, (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Also used, IIRC, in the loading ramp barriers in 4559. Chris (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ah, that clears it right up! ;^) (...) I'm pretty sure I start from scratch whenever I detect a change in the main file, but I'll check. Is there any time when I should leave the subfiles cached? Should this be yet another commandline or menu (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I thought it was used in one of the 'exploding building' sets. I could be mistaken. Steve (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Neither, I think. Maybe. (...) You only need to monitor the one passed on the command line. But, if ldglite always caches subfiles, it won't see actual code changes (which are written to the subordinate temp file). When polling detects that (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Paul, Just for grins, try the following to manually set the Editor's viewing option. 1. Edit ldraw.ini 2. Locate the section [LDAO Editor]. If that line doesn't exist, add it. 3. In the [LDAO Editor] section, look for a line like: ShowViewWindow=2 (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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A few things to note. First off, I added command line support relatively late in my LDView development. Second, my initial command line support had some issues causing it to only work in certain situations. However, the latest released version (1.0) (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ok, I think I understand fully now. Thank you, Paul (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'm not sure, this may just be a problem with my computer. Unless you hear from others with the same problem, Don't change anything. :-) (...) Good question. Paul (URL) (finished parts) (URL) (in process) (URL) (planned) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) OK, Here is what I have done for the moment. 0 Shock absorber brick 0 Name: 2605.dat 0 Author: Paul Easter 0 Category: 0 Shock absorber spring 0 Name: 2605s.dat (I used this first, x517 is my next number, should I use it?) 0 Author: Paul (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) OK, done! (...) OK, I could do the Options|Settings part. LDAO still errors when I try to click on "view settings" (...) Hummm... not here. What do you call a "change"? Is that a character insertion, deletion, overtype, or does it key off of a (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Sorry about the delay. The feature isn't working. It looks fine in some parts, but if you look at the tire in particular, some parts of the lines become dashed. Here is what the tire should look like (ignoring color): (URL) that while the lines are (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I dont recal this piece being in wild west sets, which one was it in? Also some more keywords 0 KEYWORDS blacktron II space train (24 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) OK, I read that post and I'm confused. Is this a problem I can fix, or is it a problem with LDAO? It sounds like there are 3 files involved in polling through LDAO. The original DAT file and two temp files. Do I need to monitor more than one? (...) (24 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Erk. I'm drawing a blank here. All I can think of is to label them as "shock absorber" or "spring brick". (...) The spring should be given a 3-digit number, because we're pretty certain it has a TLC part number, and I'm 99.999...999% sure we (...) (24 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Just use commas. (...) Currently, the search engine does a text search on the entire entry from the 0 KEYWORDS command (if a part has multiple 0 KEYWORDS lines, the lines are concatenated for the search engine's database). So there is no (...) (24 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Erk. That could be a problem. Could you send me a copy of your ldraw.ini file? (...) The viewer-setup has changed locations in LDAO. Try this: launch LDAO. Go to Options | Settings. Specify the location for L3Lab. Close the Settings dialog. Go (...) (24 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hello, I need some help with a description and part numbers for these parts. I know that the main pieces are 2605 and 2606. They appear to be some sort of spring bushing. The 2606 piece shows a quick "mock-up", I will do a better job soon. Also (...) (24 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'm pretty sure I have the latest. Travis usually lets me know when there is an update. I need to read the help files on it again, I may have just missed something. Paul (URL) (finished parts) (URL) (in process) (URL) (planned) (24 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I checked, by adding the -p to the command line, it does poll. Read my previous posting about this with l3lab. (URL) file the viewing programs are looking at doesn't seem to change. (...) Yes, it would be help. I looked for it in there. Can (...) (24 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I have version 1.2 20000616. Do I need to add a few extra line parameters after the %base%\l3lab.exe %model% %parm% line? I tried adding -pollsilent and -nocache, neither had any effect. (...) OK, I think I understand. When I do a save, The (...) (24 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | [lego-cad] changes to titles/keywords for SW minifig faces
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Hi! Based on the feedback I've received, I'm changing the TITLEs of the four minifig face patterns I've done for the Lego Star Wars pieces as follows: 3626b101.dat Minifig Head with SW Grim/Determined w/ Eyebrows pattern 3626b102.dat Minifig Head (...) (24 years ago, 11-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Steve, How do you want us to do multi-word (i.e., phrase) KEYWORDS? Do you want us to put them in quotes (e.g.: "Star Wars" "young Obi-Wan Kenobi" "Luke Skywalker (2000)")? Or do you want us to separate them with commas (e.g.: Star Wars, young (...) (24 years ago, 11-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hello Paul, "Paul Easter" <pneaster@knoxy.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:G41pEx.ALJ@lugnet.com... (...) Be sure to get the latest version of LDView. Only the old version had a buggy commandline feature... -- Greetings, Carsten Schmitz (24 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hmmm, polling is *supposed* to work in l3glite. Do you know which version you tried? The current version supports polling with the -p command line switch, although I haven't tried it lately so perhaps I broke it... Would it be useful to add a (...) (24 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hmm. Which version of L3Lab do you have? Lars had to make some changes, so it would listen to LDAO. I've got L3Lab 1.2. (...) Yeah, LDAO uses a couple of temporary files -- one file gets the current DAT code, the other file has a single line, (...) (24 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) No, I do not remember. I just updated LDAO to 2.1.4. By clicking on the Render button, I get a window that tries to run ledit.exe. It errors and gives me a "out of memory error" eh?, ok... in a DOS world... I changed the render button to use (...) (24 years ago, 15-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"John VanZwieten" <john_vanzwieten@email.msn.com> wrote in message news:G40vuq.LE9@lugnet.com... (...) anyway. D M Garcia (24 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I did the MCM, and posted it here: (URL) you would like the version with subfiles, just LMK -John Van "D M Garcia" <dmglego@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:G3yxyn.1F4@lugnet.com... (...) and I (...) parts. (...) configurations. (...) get an (...) (24 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Are you asking from an asthetics POV, or do you mean technically? Technically, there's no hard limit on the number of sub-models. I've got one MPD that has 87 files, and it draws fine as either a single MPD file, or as a collection of (...) (24 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) OK. Do you remember what happened, launching from the editor? (...) You can get the 'upgrade' to 2.1.4 on the LDAO download page. Go to (URL), and scroll to the bottom. Look for the line that says "Door Number 3". This download a zip file, (...) (24 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'm not sure... I just updated the image, see what you think. (URL) put two LDview windows at the bottom, one with high quality on and the other with it off. Paul (URL) (finished parts) (URL) (in process) (URL) (planned) (24 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I opened each window by running a l3lab.exe shortcut. Then drag&drop the same file to each window. (...) I tried lauching from the editor a few times with poor results. So I just open a few windows and turn on the polling feature. I wasn't (...) (24 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Well, when I am looking at other people's models, I tend to store them in their own separate directory whenever they have ANY submodels, so having more doesn't bother me much. One thing that I do find to be annoying is when there are lots of (...) (24 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Paul Easter" <pneaster@knoxy.net> wrote in message news:G3v7zn.B3B@lugnet.com... (...) without (...) the (...) If the lines are semi-randomly dotted when high-quality edges is turned on, this most likely indicates it's not working. It doesn't (...) (24 years ago, 14-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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