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In reference to the following... 3963.DAT Old Name: "Space Positioning Rockets" New Name: "Brick 1 x 1 with Plate and Positioning Rockets" I think the size should be either 1 x 2 due to the plate, or 3 x 3 since that is the actual size. The rest it (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | elimination of theme categories - Space (pt. 1)
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In order to help "get the ball rolling" ;-) I'd like to propose the following name changes as part of the migration away from "theme" categories. These are my _suggestions_ for many of the parts currently listed in the "Space" CATEGORY. (I'm still (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | elimination of theme categories - Town
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In order to help "get the ball rolling" ;-) I'd like to propose the following name changes as part of the migration away from "theme" categories. These are my _suggestions_ for parts currently listed in the "Town" CATEGORY. Note that _all_ new names (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | elimination of theme categories - Castle
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In order to help "get the ball rolling" ;-) I'd like to propose the following name changes as part of the migration away from "theme" categories. These are my _suggestions_ for parts currently listed in the "Castle" CATEGORY. Note that _all_ new (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Duplo parts?
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts Steve Bliss wrote... (...) Yup... :) (...) There is: Primitive substitution! I found out that we (mis)use stud4.dat by scaling its height by 5 in bricks! (and other factors in other parts) If I add a rounded edge to (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Lions face cornice/facade piece ?
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Has anyone done the Lions face cornice/facade piece from the 2000 Castle series ? In any case, I was able to determine the part number. Its stamped deep within one of the two bottom channels... 30274 Ray l#124 (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | 8880 wheels and tires
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Hi, Have these been done? Where can I get them? Thanks for any help! Gary (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: POV difference in LDraw?
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Well.... I'm making AutoCAD blocks of all the pieces, so that if it has been "created in memory" from before, I just insert it at the apropriate place (x y and z from the dat file). So far, so good. Now... I need to Rotate/Scale it.... To do this in (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Line Thickness and Antialiasing in LdGLite 0.7.3
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(...) You're right, it doesn't save a file, but it only seems to be a problem with the ldlite parser. Try copying the executable to l3glite.exe and running it, or add -l3 to the commandline to use the l3 parser for now whenever you want to use the (...) (24 years ago, 3-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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(...) Yes, more details would help. For instance, which direction is the offset: Forward, Up, Down, left, right? I'll have to try it out myself some more. If I remember correctly, I think I may have gotten better results with non-whole number (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | 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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