 | | Re: 4.5 Volt straight track (p/n 3228), different versions ?
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:G6K5vr.IFK@lugnet.com... (...) posting (...) Good point. Follow-up posts don't bother me as much, since I use a newsreader, but they would muddy the .dat waters for web browsers. We (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: POV difference in LDraw?
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(...) There's been quite a bit written about the transformation matrix, in the LDraw FAQ and on this newsgroup. Can you be more specific about the problem you're having? Steve (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 4.5 Volt straight track (p/n 3228), different versions ?
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(...) Thanks for the reminder... I *always* forget that. (...) Which you forgot to do! <zing> :-) ++Lar (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
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Very cool! I noticed two things, which could be considered problems. One is straight-forward, the other is not so. The first thing is that using the -ms commandline option doesn't save any images if there are no 0 STEP commands in the file. I was (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
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(...) I understand the problems related to this. It is not a major issue with me, as I will use LdGLite (is the the correct capitalization?) mostly for explorative viewing of a complete model, not for step-by-step viewing. It may be a problem when (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Patterned parts authoring
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I am now able to author some patterned parts, though not in the manner that Franklin does (it sounded rather complicated!) I remembered something said awhile back about a Bmp2dat converter, for which I did a search and downloaded. It took about ten (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: POV difference in LDraw?
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Well.. actually... I've almost finished an AutoCAD VBA-macro for importing DAT-files (into Acad 2000(i)). Just having touble with the transformation matrix thingy... I get the objects placed correctly, but not rotated/scaled properly. so... if (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
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Don Heyse wrote... (...) Ah, I think I understand now... You require all DAT files in Linux to be in uppercase? If you let FixDatName convert to lower case (like I do), you could modify OpenDatFile to use upper case, (if that's what you require) and (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
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(...) OK I confess, I took the cheap and easy fix rather than digging deeper to find the root of the problem. After further consideration I suppose the correct solution would be to run FixDatName() on all the hardcoded lowercase filenames when the (...) (24 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
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(...) Yeah, it's been that way for a while. Perhaps forever. I've fiddled with various ways to fix it, but haven't yet come up with anything that made me happy. You can see the remnants of one such attempt inside the #ifdef IGNORE_DIRTY sections of (...) (24 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Special tools used to build/design parts?
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(...) That address changed awhile ago. It's now partsref@home.com. Steve (24 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
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I've tested LdGLite 0.7.3 on Linux, and the line width option worked fine! Thanks! While rendering a model with steps, I noticed that the whole image is rerendered at each step. Is this normal? I don't remember right now if the same thing happened (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
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(...) "Premature optimization is the root of all evil". Especially don't optimize away functionality! Seriously all stricmp needs to do is pass each character through the toupper() macro which uses a look-up table. I've just re-written all the (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
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(...) stricmp is slower, though the difference is most likely immeasurable in the big picture. No, it is more a matter of principle, to know what you are dealing with, to be in control of of your data - in stead of not really knowing whether it is (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Lars C. Hassing writes: [snip] (a bunch of stuff about (...) It was on a linux system where I had copied all the DAT files from a smbmounted Windows filesystem and somehow ended up with them all in UPPERCASE. This is probably not (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
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Don Heyse wrote... (...) I really would like to find the cause of the problem, because L3P relies on the same routines, and it does work for L3P. All filenames are internally made lowercase (FixDatName), so I don't have to worry about any following (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldraw.organization (was: License revision 1)
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(...) Dissagree... (...) Or you use a Revison Control type system.... (...) Alternativly If anyone here can talk CORBA it might be worthwile considering using an app written with that to allow for distribution from various sites according to an (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
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(...) Well I'm not positive anything I wrote works correctly, but I'm not sure it got to the functions mentioned above in this case. There seemed to be a bunch of special case checks for files like light.dat and primitives where the determinant is (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
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Don Heyse wrote... (...) I don't understand why that should be necessary. FixDatName() should handle case-sensitivity. Are you sure platform_fixcase(Sub...tDatName); // Should NOT do this for model files. localize_path(SubPartDatName); work (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
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LdGLite version 0.7.3 in now available. With all the talk about line widths and antialiasing around here lately I decided to add it to ldglite. Heck, it only took about an hour to make the changes. As Lars recently proclaimed, "Hooray for OpenGL"! (...) (24 years ago, 27-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Patterned parts authoring
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Here's how I got started: Using the *text* editor of your choice (I use Notepad), open up the DAT file of the corresponding blank/un-patterned part (973.dat forthe minifig torso; 3626b.dat for the minifig head; (etc.)). Look at the code inside this (...) (24 years ago, 27-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Patterned parts authoring
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Recently I bought #7134 A-Wing Fighter and succumbed to the urge to build it in MLCad. When I got to doing the pilot, however, I found once again that I had to substitute the patterned head, torso, and helmet for other patterned parts because not (...) (24 years ago, 27-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: DAT file for 'Adventurer' wheel
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(...) Thanks, I'm glad you found the model interesting! It has to be my most unplayable model ever, though. The front wheel doesn't even turn! I have to agree with you that tuk-tuk rides are pretty unforgettable. I mostly ended up using the river (...) (24 years ago, 25-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I was planning to hold the submission until the parts library terms of use license was finished. (...) Yeah, I can do that! Fredrik (24 years ago, 25-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Special tools used to build/design parts?
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(...) Yes, for shure. The hand work is generally adding keywords, sometime I do only portion of the part and I add other primitives (like the spheric primitive in Technic Liftarm 1 x 7 with 2 ball joints - 32173.dat) Sometimes, I only modelise a (...) (24 years ago, 24-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Rubber Black (was: New Part - 30187 Minifig Motorcycle with 3 Wheels Body)
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Paul Easter wrote... (...) Yes, just look at LDView... ((URL) One problem with 256 is that MLCad does not have it available. It only (...) You apparently cannot select colors 256-511 using the mouse. You'll have to type in the number. The number is (...) (24 years ago, 24-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Salut Marc, et merci pour ta reponse. I visited your website and read your tips about using SolidWorks. I undestand what you mean now for the primitive detection, making the objects in CAD using polygons instead of circles. That makes things a (...) (24 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Rubber Black (was: New Part - 30187 Minifig Motorcycle with 3 Wheels Body)
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(...) Is this something that will only show when rendering? OR do you think that the LCad software will eventually get that detailed? (...) I'm not sure if it is overkill. There are so many colors that are undefined(as far as I know). Is there a way (...) (24 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldraw.organization (was: License revision 1)
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Leonardo Zide <leonardo@centroin.com.br> wrote in message news:3A43B5EF.1D8B7F....com.br... (...) Great! (...) Sounds good. (...) Ok. Whatever works best. I'll be talking to people within the next few weeks about LCAD stuff, exchanging information (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Ldraw.organization (was: License revision 1)
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(...) I've already started writing the program, so far it only downloads the list of files and checks for the missing ones. If I have enough time, I might have something working tomorrow or maybe next week. I wasn't going to give the user a list of (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Hello everybody (...) My stl2dat converter handles the edgelines and conditional edgelines. The conditional edgelines are created between two facets when the angle between these two facets is below a given value. This value can be set. If the angle (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes that's it. You must check the tesalation of circular portions of a part to make the detection of primitive work, the facetisation of cylindric portion of the part must fit exactly the facetisation of circular primitives that is 16 edges (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Special tools used to build/design parts?
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On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 21:59:51 GMT, Steve Bliss <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote: And Marc Klein has created an STL2DAT (...) The STL format is used for the stereolithography fast prototyping machines. It choose this format because it can be produced by (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi everybody I was off yesterday, so I only see this intersting thread today. I made my stl2dat conversion program for this purpose. The STL format is used for the stereolithography fast prototyping machines. It choose this format because it (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldraw.organization (was: License revision 1)
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Leonardo Zide <leonardo@centroin.com.br> wrote in message news:3A3F58E5.CD9F8B....com.br... (...) Cool. Would the download program provide information about the updates so people can download only what they want instead of the latest version? Why (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: DAT file for Castle Maiden Hat?
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I'd LOVE to have a DAT file for this part too... Anyone? -Andy Lynch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Franklin W. Cain" <fwcain@yahoo.com> (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Castle Maiden Hat?
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Help! I need to borrow the Castle Maiden Hat from some kind-hearted soul out there. I need to encode a LegoCAD data file for this piece as part of a special, secret project of mine. Thanks in advance, and Happy Holidays! Franklin Franklin Cain (and (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.people, lugnet.market.jambalaya, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | DAT file for Castle Maiden Hat?
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Help! I need a DAT file for the Castle Maiden Hat (the conical cap that looks like a dunce cap). If you've got a DAT file for this piece, *PLEASE* send me a copy of the DAT file. (I need this for a special, secret project.) If no one has already (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) and give it a spin. Hopefully this means the end of facetted space helmets! :] Thanx! KDJ ___...___ LUGNETer #203, Windsor, Ontario, Canada (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I remember hearing about that. But it's not a big deal, as what I mean is that I can model the shapes to be accurate, in terms of having the proper curves, blends, etc on some of the more complicated parts. I can make it all fit to whatever (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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