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I have a part which I believe is 4459 "Technic Pin with Friction", but could be 3673 "Technic Pin". From looking at the partsref pictures, I still cannot tell for sure. This pin came from <set:8520> (which I am trying to inventory). The actual part (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: RCX 1.5 and 2.0 Bricks
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The 1.0 had a 9v~12v jack in it, the 1.5 does not. the 1.5 i have in my hand still says 1.0 on it (odd) but it doesn't have the jack. it's serial number is 397451. hope this helps. (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: RCX 1.5 and 2.0 Bricks
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I could do this without much trouble, but I don't have an RCX 1.5. It looks to me from the Mindstorms site that the back side is just flat, but the RCX they show says RCX 1.0 on it. Does your RCX 1.5 say "1.5" on it? Are there any other physical (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw
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(...) What????? You don't use vi for carpentry????!!!!??? What about when you're building a bookshelf?? You just make one shelf, use shift "Y" & shift "P" to copy it as many times as you like!! It always saves me heaps of time!!! ROSCO (23 years ago, 15-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | RCX 1.5 and 2.0 Bricks
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Just wondering if anyone has made an RCX 1.5 brick yet? The only model I saw was the 1.0 brick, which has an A/C adapter on the back. The 1.5 is missing this, along with actually saying "1.5" on the side. Also, I'd be interested in a 2.0 brick once (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw
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Hi Brian, (...) I don't deserve much of the credit, but thanks on behalf of everybody involved in the project. (...) At some point, there was talk about introducing a "part[1] editor" mode in one of the programs, but I don't know if it was done[2]. (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Rotate, pitch, yaw, or roll?
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[ XFUT lugnet.off-topic.geek ] Erik: (...) I can't tell you for sure, but isn't it called "File::Spec"? (URL) "Alle telnet-dæmoner bør aflives" (23 years ago, 12-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: LDraw syntax check in Perl
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(...) The return values from the check routines indicate what kind of syntax was detected. Even values - bad syntax was found Odd values - no bad syntax More specifically, the following values are added together to get the complete return value: 1 - (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw syntax check in Perl
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Hi Steve, When I run it, with i.e. NEW.DAT I get: ---...--- Checking 'c:\ldraw\models\new.dat' Check results: 1 Short Check : 1 done. ---...--- When I test it with a rather large MPD file I get: ---...--- Checking 'c:\ldraw\models\bbss\bbss.mpd' (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDLite 2.2 Released
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(...) The full idea implementation would have both a before and an after file, so you could surround the file with a transform of some sort. (...) Yeah, it should search the whole LDRAW path and include all the files it finds. Also, now we need a (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDLite 2.2 Released
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(...) 2. The document's directory (the directory of the main model) 3. %LDRAWDIR%\P 4. %LDRAWDIR%\PARTS 5. %LDRAWDIR%\MODELS This search strategy seems reasonable for a DAT file, but I thought this was more along the lines of a resource file where (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDLite 2.2 Released
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Don Heyse wrote to Paul Gyugyi... (...) Please see (URL) (23 years ago, 10-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Substitute Colors for Dithered Colors?
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Erik Olson wrote... (...) Yeah, it was mainly to ensure that you remember to support the full range of LDraw colors, i.e. also 0x2000000-0x7FFFFFF, but I guess you already did :-) Models built in MLCad may use these colors, and L3P+L3Lab support (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDraw syntax check in Perl
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Hey all: I've written a Perl script/program to check a file for LDraw'ish syntax. I'd like to get feedback on it, as I'm an absolute beginner with Perl. The main purpose of the script is to check files being submitted to the Parts Tracker. So it's (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDLite 2.2 Released
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(...) Better yet, grab the whole source tree at once. If you have CVS, you can use a batch file (or script) like this. @echo PRESS Enter when asked for a password. cvs -d:pserver:anonymous...oot/ldlite login cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous...oot/ldlite (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDLite 2.2 Released
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I've released LDLite 2.2, available at: (URL) release fixes a problem with weird file names (with spaces or foreign characters). In doing so, it also now allows you add double-quotes around the filename in Type-1 lines, in case you want to use weird (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Substitute Colors for Dithered Colors?
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I think much of the use of dithered colors in LDRAW really paid off when the dithering was used to imply a different texture, such as shiny gold, diffuse rubber, or flourescent colors. I'm currently concerned about what happens to the dithered (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDLite 2.1 released
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LDLite 2.1 has been released. LDLite is now hosted on sourceforge.net, and can be downloaded from (URL) full source tree is browsable, and you can leave feature requests and bug reports. The 2.1 release has several improvements over the last public (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Rotate, pitch, yaw, or roll?
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Sorry about the delay, I was 'on vacation' for the past couple of days. (...) Yes. Yes it does. (...) Only because I have a tendancy to jump on things - and being a bit on large side don't help either. :) Really though, thanks. (...) Concatenate? (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Rotate, pitch, yaw, or roll?
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Erik, you can test LeoCAD and see how it perform that. I like its way of rotating quite much and find it convenient. Selçuk (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BrickDraw3D 0.2 released
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(...) You've also got stud3 and stud4 placements to go by (sometimes). stud3 is the skinny stud used under 1x bricks and plates. stud4 is the tube. (...) I don't remember anything about that. ;) Did he mention the minifig legs to bicycle connection? (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BrickDraw3D 0.2 released
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(...) Tough question. No, not fully able to detect that. What the program does know is the brick rests on top of another bounding box. For bricks, that's usually a connection. Bounding boxes ignore studs, actually any DAT file named stud*.dat is (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BrickDraw3D 0.2 released
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(...) The clicking isn't a bad idea. It wouldn't be hard to provide an option to turn it off. The real problem is knowing *when* to make the sound. Erik's done some cool stuff (last time I saw a demo of BrickDraw3D[1]), but I don't know if he's able (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: (Updated) Minifig Arm Calibrations
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(...) Looking at part 979.DAT, Minifig (Complete Figure Shortcut), it appears the hands are turned at a 45-degree angle. Steve Christopher! have you backed up your data? (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Substitute Colors for Dithered Colors?
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Wow, Lars, that was a lot of code to support r = (r1+r2)/2. The obvious hypothesis would say that the eye performs spatial integration on the pixels, so therefore values are averaged. I guess I can try it on my eyes with L3Lab then. I looked in (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Rotate, pitch, yaw, or roll?
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Wow. LUGNET rocks. Actually, people like you, Garrett, make it rock. Can you also tell me the Perl package that implements pathname concatenate in a platform-independent way? (I'm a Perl Pounder too, by day.) I'm going to write the code to detect (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Rotate, pitch, yaw, or roll?
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(...) On the 'typical' aircraft: Pitch is the angle (from horizontal) along the of the centerline of the aircraft. Roll is the rotation around the centerline axis Yaw is the rotation of the centerline around the 'altitude' axis So your 'Rotate' (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Rotate, pitch, yaw, or roll?
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(...) Couldn't you just specify "rotate X axis" "rotate Y axis" rotate Z axis"? Something a'la most 3D apps, with an XYZ key visible in the model window would help with this (could be toggled on/off). Matt (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Rotate, pitch, yaw, or roll?
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What verbs are better for describing rotation about the standard axes? Rotate is usually understood as spinning about the vertical axis. There are aeronautical terms for the other two, pitch and yaw, and I can't remember which is which, so I'm using (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BrickDraw3D 0.2 released
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(...) Having never been able to use the DOS/Windows editors, do any of them do this? Whould it be a 'horrible' idea, to get confirmation of sorts via audible feedback? It might be a unique option at that. Just thinking out loud though... (...) Got (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BrickDraw3D 0.2 released
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I should have said, I know of several bugs in 0.2: On the Edit menu: Group has weird side effects. Ungroup does nothing. The rotate commands got all screwed up. Line colors are still absent in several places. Also new: click-drag always moves a (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BrickDraw3D 0.2 released
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(...) Oh! Oh! Oh! I am SOOOOOO excited! This looks great Erik...you are definately on the right track. No bugs or crashes yet...every open feature seems to be working great. BTW, is this the same build you e-mailed me on the 30th? Matt (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | BrickDraw3D 0.2 released
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I went ahead and released a version. Piece dragging in 3D is more developed. There is a parts list window. All sorts of functions are here like cut, paste, color, rotate, background color. It has baseplates. Loading parts and models is faster. It is (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: there is a problem with the classic space landing pad baseplates
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(...) Sometime back I discussed this with Steve Bliss (in the context of authoring the two other varients of the landing pad baseplate) and offered to fix this probelm at the same time. I'll try and push it up the priority list. Chris Dee (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | there is an error in the 9v train motor
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Some of the type 2 lines incorctly use color #241 instead of color 24, resulting in a small amount of blue lines in the part (in ledit) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | there is a problem with the classic space landing pad baseplates [DAT]
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basicly, the problem is that the yellow lines on the t-junction landing pad plate dont match properly with the yellow lines on the circle landing pad plate. these 2 lines of ldraw dat file show a circle next to a t-junction. 1 7 -320 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Substitute Colors for Dithered Colors?
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Erik Olson wrote... (...) I use the average of the two colors' RGB. Try it out in L3Lab by toggling the "Dither or blend colord 256-511" button in the toolbar. Here is the code I use for color decoding: /* Return -1 on invalid LDraw color. rgb may (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | (Updated) Minifig Arm Calibrations
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Upon seeing the differences in the minifig arms (975.dat & 976.dat) and comparing the old files with their updates, it is obvious that changes have been made. However, for those of us who are more technical than their own good, please give us a (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Substitute Colors for Dithered Colors?
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Hi, I'm wondering how to treat dithered colors (LDRAW 0x0100 to 0x01ff, see FAQ). Short of implementing a dithered texture--which would preserve that old-timey look--I'm seeking a conversion function. My first guess is that the perceptual equivalent (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Pontoon Elements, anyone?
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(...) back) (...) Thanks, Manfred. This is more along the lines of what I'm looking for. :) Now if only I could solve my Tow Truck element problem.... -- James J. (23 years ago, 5-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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