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(...) Yes, there are plans for this. My current issue is with the syntax being used. I'd rather use general 0 IF ... 0 ELSE ... 0 ENDIF meta-statements, rather than the 0 L3P meta-statements. (...) It seems like LGEO is pretty static now. Lutz is (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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"Travis Cobbs" <tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com> wrote in message news:GrstMI.BB7@lugnet.com... (...) Brings me to a question about the minifig head. I had a high-res printout of Cale Leiphart's The Fight scene made for BricksWest, and there were some (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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I don't include instructions in the release, but LDView 1.9.2 can now be used as a screen saver. This is still in the verification stage, and as such may lock/crash/reboot your computer, etc. (Note that it does none of these things on my computer.) (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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LDView version 1.9.2 is now available, in both source and binary forms. You can download either from: (URL) of the highlights of version 1.9.2 include: Option to texture map LEGO logo onto studs. Wireframe Cutaway Faster lighting (on some cards (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes, that's the info I'm looking for. Thanks, Travis (and Vincent, too). Related question (for the parts officials, I suppose): Are there any plans (even tentative) to move towards adding this sort of stuff to official parts? Or is the current (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I don't know if any official parts do it, but it is possible. Based on an earlier lugnet.cad.ray message, you do this: 0 L3P IFNOTPOV (regular ldraw code goes here) 0 L3P ELSEPOV 0 (POV-Ray code goes here, commented-out) 0 L3P ENDPOV You can (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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Tony Hafner <hafhead@PANTSplanetquake.com> wrote in message news:GrsoEF.Ips@lugnet.com... (...) any. (...) Read Steve Bliss' reply to my message titled "How to add own parts to LGEO?". He describes how to include POV-Ray code in .DAT files that can (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: File Check utility (was: Case of part filenames?)
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(...) OK, it's done. It will probably be a problem going forward, until I can clean up the code and combine it into one source. Anyone ever played with lex and perl? That would probably be a better way of doing this - the current code is pretty (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I seem to recall that some curved parts have separate definitions in the parts file itself for POV-Ray to render them better. But I can't find any. Is this actually possible? Do such parts exist? Is there a "better" way (ie through L3P) to get (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: File Check utility (was: Case of part filenames?)
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(...) Yep, I will do that. I think it should be pretty straightforward. Not quite as straightforward as it would be if they actually ran off the same source code, but close... Steve (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Thanks! Now I know. One related thing- is there any way that you could add the new checks to the "File Check" utility as well? I had a number of parts that I had scanned with that tool and they came up OK. Then the submission form refused the (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) You got it. It didn't use to matter, but now we're trying to move to lower case. Mostly. It didn't use to matter -- DOS's file system is 'case-insensitive'. But DOS always stores & returns filenames as all-caps, so most filenames were (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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What's the story with upper vs. lower case in part filenames? In my brief survey of my parts directory, it looks like all the files use all upper case where they use letters (".DAT" and the "P" for patterned elements). Additionally, many parts (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | progress report (was "Re: Looking for DAT of Wedge Curved 2x6x1")
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(...) I've posted an almost-comlete version of 41765: "(URL) only things remaining for this one is encoding the sliced tubes (i.e., where the top-studs meet the sidewalls). Thanks, Franklin (23 years ago, 18-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Heh, yeah. You're absolutely right. OK, I give up: what was the 7 for? Steve (23 years ago, 18-Feb-02, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) ????? By my calculation, 3 1/3 bricks = 10 plates ??????? ROSCO (23 years ago, 16-Feb-02, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) The height on this part name was given in plates. 3 1/3 bricks = 7 plates. And see (URL) for new developments. :) Steve (23 years ago, 16-Feb-02, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Bernd Broich" <bernd.broich@online.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:GrF5JD.5zI@lugnet.com... (...) I found a free UML tool that works and made a class graph showing the classes, we talked about. The tool, Poseidon for UML, is java-based and (as (...) (23 years ago, 16-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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There are many aspects of the art of piece nomenclature that continue to escape me, but this one has me completely stumped. I just came across what I think is ``Technic Gearbox 2 x 4 x 7'' (URL) doing an inventory of set 6775. I cannot for the life (...) (23 years ago, 16-Feb-02, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Looking for DAT of Wedge Curved 2x6x1
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(...) Great! And thanks for the part numbers. I found these new wedges to be great because their notches allow you to treat them like an ordinary brick (as opposed to the spacecraft-nose wedge (6069 Wedge 4x4 Triple) where you can't just stick it (...) (23 years ago, 14-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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