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(...) Yeah, I still prefer using the original version of LDraw. MLCad uses too many of my system resources. I wish someone would update LDraw!!! Mike (24 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Diablo-style RPG?
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Hey, Anyone interested in creating a Diablo-style RPG using LDraw? I sorta know how to do it using the freeware Dink Smallwood engine. It wouldn't be too hard, just time-consuming. Plus, to all you long-term, quasi-professional LDraw & Lugnet (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 'Article from Tommorow' < Warning Speculative!!>
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<Warning this article is a speculative post designed to encourage disscusssion on new ideas (and hopefully suggest some Ideas to TLC/TLG.) > Hold the presses!! Some new info just come through on the WAP service from Lego.com... (...) And thats the (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw.org Reference Organization Questions
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(...) For right now, keep the layout basically how it is. I'd add posting dates for each of the items, and put the newest items at the top. If an item gets significantly updated, move it to the top. You might also add icons (either textual or (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LCAD 02?- Comments wanted
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"Farlie A" <alex_farlie@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:G7BByH.9I8@lugnet.com... (...) suggested. (...) I believe that though you have some good suggestions, the time and energy required to develop a new format is almost a waste of time given the (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LCAD 02?- Comments wanted
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Hello, A couple of days ago I posted some ideas for additonas to the LCAD standrd to lugent.cad under the subject LCAD02... I wondering if anyone here had comments on the proposals... I felt that it was better to devlop a standard by conensus rather (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New "calculator" for parts authors. ( for windows 95+, nt?)
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Hi Paul, Now the zip is OK. At the first glance it seems to be very useful. I guess I will have more seriuos comments when I will use it to solve a real calculation problem during a part creation. Only one thing that I have to mention. In the rare (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Could someone make this part?
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Could someone please make the part that is used in Hydronaut sets that connected the hoses to the suction cups? I don't have any Hydronaut sets, but a friend of mine who does found that this piece makes a GREAT space gun/blaster. So if any part (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: !!Warning- Pure Speculation!!
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(...) Maybe , but I thought Pov ray did that!! But i'll consider adding radiosity and light sources to the LCAD02 Standard I am thinking about writing.. (...) Yes.. Exactly... The whole purpose of the a 'speculative post is to encourage friendly (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: !!Warning- Pure Speculation!!
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So, what you're saying (to cad.dev) is you'd like someone to put together a real-time radiosity solution to use semitransparent bricks and multiple light sources? Hmm... might take 2-3 months... Oh wait, it could be done with plastic, like those (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: !!Warning- Pure Speculation!!
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(...) <snip> (...) Silly Alex, Optrix is for kids! :^D ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin -- Mark's Lego Creations (URL) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Mlcad works for general modeling too!
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(...) And I was seriously considering recomending LDraw over Autocad to a friend of mine. And It was precisly what L-Draw could be used for other than Lego(R) was why I found Lugnet :-)))! L-Draw could be used for componentised CAD like kitchen or (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.ideas, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | !!Warning- Pure Speculation!!
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<Warning!! This message contains pure speculation on the part of it's authour> Tripping The Light Fantastic. 'It came from a 'fortunate' encounter with a prism and it sort of devloped' stated a senior Lego designer today. Now not only can you build (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | New "calculator" for parts authors. ( for windows 95+, nt?)
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Hi, In the past I have made a spreadsheet that would allow you to find the point at which a line will pass through a triangle. I have made a new "calculator" intended for using while working on new/old Ldraw parts files. I have turned this thing (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ideas for themes and other suggestions.
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Farlie A wrote in message ... (...) old (...) Megabloks have ski/snow sports sets out at the moment, along with skateboard/bike sports sets. They actualy look very cool. Kevin ---...--- Victorian House: Limited edition kit (URL) Kits & Custom Lego (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Ideas for themes and other suggestions.
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Warning: Please note this post contains pure speculation on the part of it authours...!> DB: VIEW SUMMARIES FOR 2005,Lego,Products. 'Welcome to the City! Lego is proud to reintroduce it's oldest theme. The New City range will be availbe from Summer (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.lego.direct)
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Why not look it up here? (URL) send it to you but I don't seem to have it either. Gary Ryan Farrington <ryanjf@ifriendly.com> wrote in message news:002301c07bd2$2c...dly.com... (...) someone (...) it? (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | I need Windscreen 4 x 4 x 1
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Somehow I lost the .dat file for the Windscreen 4 x 4 x 1. Could someone please just copy the text of the .dat file into a message so I can have it? Thanks, --Ryan E-mail: ryanjf@ifriendly.com Website: (URL) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Question about generating curves
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(...) To check the BFC'ness of your file, use L3Lab. While viewing the file, select the Test | mytest6 menu option. This will color-code all the rendered surfaces. Green is the front/outside of correctly wound surfaces, Red is the back/inside, and (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Plans to include LCAD or TLG part numbers on inventroy entries?
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(...) The problem there is that the inventories at (URL) are pretty much static/dead data at this point. It's an area that's unlikely to get updated. I believe some of the inventories have been converted (with permission obtained from the list (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Question about generating curves
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I could make a tool to display a part (wireframe view) from any angle. Clicking on a polygon command in the DAT source (displayed below the view pane) would cause the edges of that polygon to appear as arrows, showing the order they were defined in. (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Question about generating curves
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Thanks everyone for your helpful information. I believe that I can now properly model curves manually (as opposed to just using cylinder primitives). I'll be trying it out on the "coarse" version of the Duplo bottom stud. As for BFC statements, I (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Question about generating curves
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"Joseph Cardana" <jcardanas@home.com> wrote in message news:G6xJvM.JIv@lugnet.com... (...) allow (...) have (...) to (...) the (...) Conditional lines are used to show the outer boundary of a curved _surface_. Consider a cylinder. Between each quad (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Plans to include LCAD or TLG part numbers on inventroy entries?
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(...) Will Do. (...) I meant being able to get visual apperance of peices in the Lugnet Inventories which do not currently include Ldraw/TLG Part Numbers on inventory entries AFAIK. But I will check again.. Thanks!! Alex (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Plans to include LCAD or TLG part numbers on inventroy entries?
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(...) It's a fake. (If I had a copy of Visio I'd have used that.) I'd previously fooled around with the idea of making something real like this for my own collection but the back-and-forth crossreferencing of parts and sets threw me for a loop. (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv)
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| | New version of BrickDraw3D (Mac)
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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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