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I've been releasing new versions of BrickDraw3D in the past few days. Tonight's build has a lot more than the last advertised version. First, the location has moved. New home page with more pretty pictures: (URL) It's still just a viewer. But now it (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Question about generating curves
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Franklin W. Cain writes: <snip> (...) <snip> (...) Franklin, Your quite a humorus man. What the hell did you just say! Please allow me to explain why I'm laughing. I didn't graduate high school, I don't have a GED but even (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Question about generating curves
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Franklin W. Cain" <fwcain@yahoo.com> To: <lugnet.cad.dat.part...gnet.com>; <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 9:38 PM Subject: Re: Question about generating curves (...) Back faces are (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Question about generating curves
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(Note: Please follow-up to ".cad.dev".) (...) OK, first you need to bear in mind that LDraw does _NOT_ draw true curves, it draws _angles_. If you have enough angles in a line, from a sufficient distance, this angled line will _appear_ to be a true (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Plans to include LCAD or TLG part numbers on inventroy entries?
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(...) going on. (...) Is that a real database, or did you just make that to show how all these projects are related? I've been kicking around an idea for the past few month or so (I'll post details later this week, I hope) that requires some way to (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Re: Plans to include LCAD or TLG part numbers on inventroy entries?
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(...) The plan is slowly coming together. The inventories at Peeron ((URL) have most of the parts linked to Partsref (if the part is LDrawn) or sometimes a photo taken by Dan and Jen, as well as a list of the sets in the Peeron database containing (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Re: Plans to include LCAD or TLG part numbers on inventroy entries?
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(...) That's already being done in many cases. (...) Go for it. Use the parts tracker to avoid duplication of effort. (...) Which inventories? Partsref already links to several inventory sites. Steve (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: elimination of theme categories - Space (pt. 1)
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"Michael Heinich" <mheinich@yahoo.com> skrev i meddelandet news:G6usvx.Cuu@lugnet.com... (...) You can use my LDList program to locate LDRAW parts. It lets you search both the Description and all Keywords that are noted on the parts, and shows all (...) (24 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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(...) Me too! I was just about to say he could get a copy of the function from the L3 parser code in ldglite but it wasn't there. Even worse, it turns out I just commented out the call to Color2RGB() in L3Input.cpp when I couldn't find a copy of (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Plans to include LCAD or TLG part numbers on inventroy entries?
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I would find this useful in that I would be able to obtain a visual appearance for more obscurly named parts. In additon it would help to idenfity gaps in the LCAD part library. (LoM has at least 5 new mouldings in the set I bought..- Will start (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.database, 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 (...) Hmmm. How's this? (URL) simple and it (...) (24 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 (...) (24 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, (...) (24 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 (...) (24 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 (...) (24 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 (...) (24 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 (...) (24 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. (...) (24 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 (24 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 (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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