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(...) It depents on your scale, but maybe jou can make someting out of these technical parts: 2823 Technic Forklift Fork, length 7 studs (seen it used in pairs back to back) see (URL) Technic Wing Back, length 5 studs (use it upside down) see (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Ryan, I was refering to elements that are slightly flat, such as Helicopter runners, but somewhat wider and "taller" (or "thicker"). At any rate, I want to thank you for trying to help out. James J. (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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The only ones I can think of are the Aquazone pieces: 6037.dat 6043.dat 6042.dat --Ryan (...) I'm (...) plane. (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Hmmm, I didn't get much feedback on the 0.9.0 version of ldglite. No problem, I found enough to work on myself and the result is ldglite version 0.9.1. For this release I tried to make the LEdit emulation more accurate. I also attempted to tweak the (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.announce)
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:GE8IMF.8K5@lugnet.com... (...) cad (...) line (...) So far all of the lines and optional lines I've seen, have been polygon edges. Rather than do the math to determine if an optional line (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Why? A lot of pieces have odd lines on their surfaces -- sometimes regularly laid out (like on cylindrical bits), sometimes oddly laid out (like the car doors or complicated printed pieces). Sometimes these lines will make an interesting (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I spent a few moments tweaking the rendering style of my in-development cad program. A sample can be seen at (URL) ignore the few unhidden lines (such as the steering wheel in the side view, and the lines leading diagonally up and to the left from (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Farlie A" <alex_farlie@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GE7LFr.7BJ@lugnet.com... (...) in (...) Thanks! (...) course?) (...) program... Yes. I am developing a version for Windows with Delphi, and a version for GNU/Linux with Kylix, using the (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hello. Does anyone know if small pontoon-type elements were ever made for LCAD? I'm referring to small-sized ones capable of supporting an airboat or sea plane. James J. (23 years ago, 31-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Nice interface. Like it! I was wondring if you planned to rlease the source code... (GPL of course?) as I was considering a similar interface for a different (non-lego) program... (...) (23 years ago, 31-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) from (...) library (...) rotation (...) That helps a lot. Thanks! Cheers, --Ryan (23 years ago, 30-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) - Part Origin, is the absolute zero (0,0,0) point of the part itself. - Part Center, is the computed center of the part (e.g. the part ranges from (-2, -2, -2) to (+4, +4, +4) so the computed center is (+1,+1,+1). - The part rotation point, is (...) (23 years ago, 30-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I am working on making some parts, and I have a couple of questions regarding rotation points. . What is the difference between Part Origin, Part Center, and Part Rotation Point in the Rotation Point dialog box (MLCad)? . Is the Part Rotation Point (...) (23 years ago, 29-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I just noticed #30414 (Brick 1x4 with studs on side) is named "_3010-8.dat" in this unofficial update. Clearly the partnumber is 30414. Greetingz... Sjaacko (...) (23 years ago, 25-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yeah, I wasn't thinking of a large-scale rewrite, but I was curious. (...) I'm not at all code-savvy, but I'd help where possible. Dave! (23 years ago, 24-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> To: <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 10:54 AM Subject: Re: Is there any benefit... (...) most (...) recursing (...) But (...) It's not worth the trouble: (...) (23 years ago, 24-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) The main advantage would be saving a few bytes of file space. Which is most significant to the download process, since we've got about 3MB of data, between ldraw.exe and complete.exe. The rendering time would be *mostly* unaffected. On the on (...) (23 years ago, 24-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I've noticed that a number of older DAT files could be steamlined (that is, rendered using far fewer lines) by application of box.dat and rect.dat primitives rather than a series of linetypes 2 and 4. Is there any merit in doing this, such as (...) (23 years ago, 23-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Nice response time here on my behalf :] Oops (...) Yeah, I didn't like these two either, mostly the first one. It could be confusing. (...) ARRrrgh!! Hehe, got it :] To me, either of the angle method or the rise-run methods could work, and I can (...) (23 years ago, 15-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Part Authoring FAQ (was Re:Some submission guidelines...)
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(...) Oops, sorry about that. Really all this info should be added to the FAQ on www.ldraw.org. All the FAQ says about submitting is "When you have finished the part, you should check it for technical mistakes with l3p -check, and then send it to (...) (23 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) At Y=0. Just make sure the light source doesn't move. Steve (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Don Heyse wrote something that triggered me to write at length: (...) Posting to lugnet.cad.dat.parts as an MPD is cool. It's better than the alternative (posting several messages, possibly pointing links to (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:GD4pME.Bz2@lugnet.com... (...) could (...) But where would the shadow be drawn, if there is no absolute minimum elevation? (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message news:GD4oE6.82s@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) the (...) it. Yes, I'm planning to allow at the very minimum, the ability to view any of the eight potential isometric views (if you made a model of a (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Ahui Herrera" <jedi_agh@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:GD4nu6.6KI@lugnet.com... (...) Yes. (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) The only suggestion I have is to keep drawing the brick's shadow when the brick goes underground. Steve (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I like it! Ultimately I suppose you'd have a toggle for finer-detail motion, but as a demo I think it's quite cool. Would it be possible in the final product to rotate the scene, or even to change the centerpoint of the view? In any case, I'll (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Will this new program have the ability to move objects both in the iso.. view and other views that MLCAD currenlty allows. This would be best! (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:qk5lftsl7dvnao4...4ax.com... (...) OK, don't let us stop you. Must be a nightmare trying to get the automatic parts release system written. Dan (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Thanks for the feedback, Dan. I'll see what I can do about straightening these parts out. Now, on to the next step: managing feedback and updates to files. :) Steve (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) This is exactly how LeoCAD handles moving parts around by default, but there is an option to change it. I personally find LeoCAD awkward to use and have gotten used to the quirks of MLCad. Dan (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'll make it a little easier - here's the problems I've found so far: No s\ in subpart reference: 3070a.dat (references 3070new.dat) 3069a.dat (references 3069new.dat) 2431b.dat (references 2431new.dat) 6366b.dat (references 6636new.dat) (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hello again (long time no post). I'm in the process of developing my own DAT-based CAD program. One of the things that frustrates me about MLCAD is the apparent inability to drag parts around inside the isometric view--you're forced to use an (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Re: Unofficial parts at (URL) FYI, there are a few more new files out there. I'm not going to continue announcing updates; they should continue to occur on an ongoing basis, nearly daily. I'm going to modify the format of the page a bit, to include (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yeah, there's a lot of little stuff. I'll check around about those primitives; it's likely I just missed including them. Steve (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:GD1Cwq.16D@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) first (...) Now I can see how much you end up having to do to sort out the release of parts - there are quite a few parts with reference subparts (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) OK. I took care of these two very minor issues. ;) I won't vouch for the quality of any of the linked data, though! The first part I pulled down had a half-dozen lines with syntax errors. :O Remember, that URL is (URL) Steve (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Maybe. I guess I'd rather not depend on programs treating the title line as fixed-format, instead of delimited. My code tends to strip extra whitespace around the 0 and the title. (...) We are already using the first format. Unless someone (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'm jumping in late here, so I may have missed a vital point, but wouldn't a blank space at the beginning of the part description force-sort the part to the beginning of parts.lst? I mean, could we have: 9999.dat Unofficial Part: Brick 2 x 7 (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I just want to say Thanks Steve! for doing this. Maybe all the links don't work, but at least you can download all the parts in the zip file at the bottom. -Chuck (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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