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I don't know if anyone's ever thought of this, but it would be cool if you were able to import a terrain file into LDraw, in a way that LDraw could read it. This way, you could place your models on "real world terrain" without having to work in a (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) produced. (...) top; (...) I uploaded an alternate version of this image, with no parts completely obscured. Go to (URL) and click on Screenshot #8. -Gary (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) magazine (...) callouts (...) The right rear wheel is in fact there, but it doesn't appear in this rendering. That seems to be an artifact of how the rendering was produced. If part #2 comes in front of part #1, it will be drawn transparently (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) This was actually a misfeature, but it's a convoluted story to explain. I accidentally accomplished what I at first set out to do. :) It kinda looks like the car is decloaking. :) -Gary (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Niftyness :-) I set the image as my desktop wallpaper. Doesn't help that I run the same scree res and I think I have a window maximized when I look at it ;-) BTW - notice it appears James forgot the back right wheel on the car. I like the (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I really like the new Suzuki Transpera. I take it you made that intentionally? I got one by accident when first implementing transparent windshields. -Erik (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(URL) image shows James Jessiman's car.dat file with every part marked as "selected" in GWCAD. The result is that the car resembles an auto magazine ad in which parts of the vehicle are displayed semi-translucent so callouts can be drawn to all the (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes, that's where I got stuck. If anyone knows a nice occlusion algorithm that solves this problem in vector space (without converting to raster) I could probably also use it to speed up the rest of ldglite as well. I'm hoping for an (...) (23 years ago, 9-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes, there is. But the [LDraw Add-On] section should really be for stuff internal to LDAO, so we could discuss putting it somewhere else. Like [LDraw] or [New File Defaults], or something. Steve (23 years ago, 9-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Oh, is there already an Author key in the [LDraw Add-On] section? (I'm on holiday for the moment and can't check myself) If so, I can use that one instead. /Tore (...) (23 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Andy Lynch" <andy@andyandjackie.com> wrote in message news:004f01c11ffb$c6...1DMNJ01... (...) Thanks for your kind words. :) (...) I never truly understood those transformation matrices until recently myself. When I was a high school student I (...) (23 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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<whew> Wow. Downloaded all three of your "proof of concept" executables... Beautiful work. I'll try to figure out something else to say later... I'm kind of speechless. I had toyed with the idea of writing a Lego Cad application in Delphi a while (...) (23 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) them). If anybody is interested, a demo of how this particular feature will work can be downloaded from (URL) proof-of-concept executable #3. -Gary (23 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Tore Eriksson wrote: I have added Author key in the [LDraw] section of ldraw.ini, just (...) That works for me. If I ever update LDAO again, I'll modify it to look for an author in the [LDraw] section, as well as the [LDraw (...) (23 years ago, 7-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Don: (...) Looks good, but I think it would be useful to reduce the file to the visible surfaces before saving it. Jacob (23 years ago, 7-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hmmm. Looks odd, but it is something Photoshop could not parse it as an EPS (Generic nor Photoshop) Freehand or Illustrator did not create the picture. Acrobat distiller however created a PDF file of which I posted a picture at (URL) and a good (...) (23 years ago, 7-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hey, with all this talk about PostScript converters I wonder if anyone would like to take a shot at completing the EPS output in ldglite? I started it once upon a time using the opengl feedback buffer to produce the transformed geometry. However the (...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Cheers, - jsproat (23 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ah, you noticed the default application icon :) I also have the desktop edition of Kylix so porting it to GNU/Linux at some point is a very likely option. At the moment you can pick from six orthographic and eight isometric views, but only one (...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Woo-hoo! A Lego Cad Program written in DELPHI!!!! Can't wait to see it! Looks good so far! :-) -Andy Lynch -Another Delphi Developer ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Williams" <gwlego@gw.ro> (...) site with (...) months. (...) built (...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ha, you said it your self; in 3D it is not a question of what you place when but where, in PostScript it is the other way around. I afraid you'll get very Dali/Picasso like postscript-files. You even have to mind the part-dat-files and (...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Not much to see yet, but I've uploaded an early screenshot and a very preliminary command reference (with lots of gaps yet): (URL) the next few weeks as development progresses I'll update this site with more screenshots. My tentative schedule is to (...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Jeroen: (...) That's the easy part (sort of). You just multiply all points with an apropriate rotation matrix and ignores one coordinate. (okay - and then there is a lot of "what's on top" questions) (...) The only solution I have been able to come (...) (23 years ago, 5-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Why don't you take a look at the LEdit keyboard shortcuts and perhaps give them a try. They're listed here and many of them work in Move mode in MLCAD. (URL) make some specific suggestions like in these old threads. (2 URLs) what would be (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That's a neat idea. It's doable. (...) I really like that idea. It had never occured to me to make the main menu invisible, but it's trivial to accomplish. (...) What if all the commands can be renamed by the user? :) My goal is to make this (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Kyle D. Jackson" <flightdeck@sympatic...mblock.ca> wrote in message news:GHGxC8.5yn@lugnet.com... (...) Well, the current LEdit key commands I still use consist of the arrow keys, page up, page down, home, end, I, and A. The ones beginning with the (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Gary, this sounds great! The best CAD keyboard interface I've ever seen (and I've seen a lot!) was that of the VersaCAD package of the late 80's. Every single possible command (I think) in the system was accessible by a single keystroke. And (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I would prefer developers of new CAD programs use key interfaces that make sense, and not ones hamstrung by idiosyncrasies of pre-existing software. I'm not saying LEdit's commands are good or bad (I wouldn't know, I've only used MLCAD). I'm (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) pitch (...) I could have 'rotate <axis> <angle>' as an alias for roll, pitch, and yaw <angle>, as appropriate. No problem. (...) That's not what I had intended. Imagine a clockwise helix (spring). "flip y" would turn it into a counterclockwise (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Please, oh please make it "rotate x 90" (like "offset" command below). (...) I assume this is equivalent to "rotate y 180". (...) I think these probably need to be "snap [x|y|z] 20" as well, unless you're gonna implement them separately for (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Gary Williams" <gwlego@gw.ro> wrote in message news:GHG3q1.Hyy@lugnet.com... (...) It has been, off an on. Good idea though. Part of what we're doing now with the parts stuff will lead towards a system which will allow that. We'll probably have our (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Cool, I love keyboard interfaces. Keep in mind that we already have a something of standard keyboard convention in place. The LEdit key commands. They may not be the best, but they're short and they're built into several of the CAD programs (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Jennifer L. Boger" <jenn@peeron.com> wrote in message news:3B6973C4.201000...ron.com... (...) menus (...) up to (...) he (...) :) ) (...) Ok, I guess it wouldn't be much harder to allow meta keys and function keys too. :) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) (wow, dan, i'm actually going to agree with you on something like this :) ) yes, don't limit them - i'm still mad that diablo 2 doesn't allow more than a few hot keys. (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) ooohhh... that I like :) (...) why just 26 commands? if you just allow two meta keys (say, alt and ctrl), you get 26*2^2=104 shortcuts... and if you allow shift as well, 208! not saying anyone could remember them all, but why limit the (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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For the CAD system I'm developing, I'm planning to have multiple ways of issuing commands: Drop-down and pop-up menus Speedbuttons Keyboard shortcuts (configurable to user preferences) and... Command line interface (like in AutoCAD) In AutoCAD I (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Wouldn't it be neat if, when you load a model in a CAD program, if a piece in the model is missing, it could automatically download the missing part from ldraw.org for you? Or periodically poll ldraw.org to see if DAT file updates are available, and (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I have added Author key in the [LDraw] section of ldraw.ini, just because I was tired of filling it in every time I run LDA2001. The value of the ident will be suggested as a default author next time you start an application reading it. Anyone who (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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If the pin is black it is probably 4459 "Technic Pin with Friction". #3673 "Technic Pin" is grey. (...) -- Calvin Walton (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I believe both parts are the same, cad wise... physically, however, the "pin with friction" has small ridges that create the 'friction'. I believe there's 8 small ones on each pin side... 16 total. You're correct, the "pin with friction" has slots, (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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