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----- Original Message ----- From: "Lars C. Hassing" <lch@ccieurope.com> To: <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 5:32 PM Subject: Re: LDraw color codes needed for rendering program (...) Hmmm. How's this? (URL) simple and it (...)   (25 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)   
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  |    | Re: LDraw color codes needed for rendering program
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> To: <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 10:46 AM Subject: Re: LDraw color codes needed for rendering program (...) (URL) (...) Thanks, Suz's page came to (...)   (25 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)   
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  |    | Re: LDraw color codes needed for rendering program
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Lars C. Hassing" <lch@ccieurope.com> To: <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 5:32 PM Subject: Re: LDraw color codes needed for rendering program (...) and (...) 5). (...) can (...) Thanks, (...)   (25 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)   
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  |    | Re: LDraw color codes needed for rendering program
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Gary Williams wrote... (...) You may have a look in this L3Lab generated table: (URL) has colors 0..63 for LDraw, LDLite+MLCad and L3P. I'm working on adding more colors and more color schemes. LDraw draws transparent colors (32 + 0..15) by (...)   (25 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)   
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  |    | Re: elimination of theme categories - Space (pt. 1)
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Also, esp. for those times when you don't have a fast/cheap connection to the internet, use Anders' LDList program. It provides the same search function as Partsref, but it's all on your harddrive. Steve (...)    (25 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)   
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  |    | Re: elimination of theme categories - Space (pt. 1)
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Keywords... ;-) When looking for a part, and you don't know what it's called, but you *do* know a set it's used in and/or what purpose it serves, hop over to the PartsRef ("(URL) use the Keyword search. I have used this numerous times to find parts (...)   (25 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)   
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  |    | Re: elimination of theme categories - Space (pt. 1)
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Out of morbid curiosity and the never ending pursuit of opening myself up for attacks, I would like to pose/offer a question or idea. I will state up front that my only experience with finding parts is via the MLCAD interface. So anything I saw can (...)   (25 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)   
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  |    | Re: LDraw color codes needed for rendering program
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(...) The LDraw FAQ is the definitive list. (...) Way cool. We can never have too many Lego CAD programs. (...) (oops-the RGB for #5 is in the list) I'd look to Suzanne's excellent chart at (URL) for RGB values that aren't listed in the LDraw FAQ. (...)   (25 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)   
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  |    | Re: elimination of theme categories - Castle
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(...) Fair 'nuff. Anything I can do to help with that? (...) Agreed. (...) I can't afford to do that, I don't have the hair to spare. ;-) (...) OK. Franklin    (25 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)   
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  |    | Re: elimination of theme categories - Castle
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Franklin, Thanks for looking into this, but I want to put off making major changes in the library organization until *after* we've got a good tracking system implemented on the server. These kind of changes are important. I spend a lot of time (...)   (25 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)   
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Hello, Over a year ago, I mentioned on this list that I was considering making a new Lego CAD program for Windows and Linux, but until now I've been really pressed for time. This weekend I finally resumed the project and got the rendering engine (...)   (25 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)   
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  |    | Re: elimination of theme categories - Town
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(...) I added "Utensil" specifically so that these will be sorted (when sorted by "Description") next to each other. As a comparison, look at all the "Minifig Tool"[s] there are... Franklin    (25 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)   
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  |    | Re: elimination of theme categories - Space (pt. 1)
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(...) As this piece has been used in town sets as loudspeakers, also add some keywords appropriate keywords. Mabie it would be even better to change the name to Brick 1 x 1 with Plate and Cones?    (25 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)   
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  |    | Re: elimination of theme categories - Town
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(...) <snip> (...) <snip> (...) <snip> I recommend leaving out "utensil" Joe    (25 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)   
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  |    | Re: elimination of theme categories - Space (pt. 1)
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I've also notice I have a few parts that you don't have listed here. #4735 Old: Space Robot Arm (no dimensions) New: No suggestion #3940 Old: Space Stand 2 x 2 x 2 New: Support 2 x 2 x 2 #4741 Old: Space Window 4 x 4 x 6 Outward sloping New: Window (...)   (25 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)   
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  |    | Re: elimination of theme categories - Space (pt. 1)
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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 (...)   (25 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 (...)   (25 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 (...)   (25 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 (...)   (25 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 (...)   (25 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, lugnet.cad.dev)   
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