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Wouldn't it be great if there were a lego cad program like MLCad for the pocketPC? Take your models with you, work on them whenever you have some idle time. Show off your work whenever you get the chance. Even a just viewer like LDLite would be (...) (23 years ago, 25-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: how to add graphic to part
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Carsten & Steve, Thanks! I think that's what I was remembering. Now to try it... Thanks, James Wilson (...) (23 years ago, 24-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Requesting another plug-in for LDDesignPad
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(...) Nah, my documentation stinks. I'll try again with pictures. (URL) can probably do something similar in MLCAD, but I'm not positive. Don (23 years ago, 24-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Requesting another plug-in for LDDesignPad [DAT]
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(...) Well first of all I don't have either ldglite or LDAO! And I am not sure what you mean by 'scale and then inline,' nor am I sure of the meaning of inline/inliner in this context. I'm off to a real good start! :] I could add 0 SCALE lines to (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: how to add graphic to part
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Hello, (...) Get it at www.m8laune.de. Play well Carsten (23 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: how to add graphic to part
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(...) For a quick custom, you can use BMP2DAT32 (if I remember the name right). It comes out with mediocre quality (usually), but it's easier than redrawing your graphic in LDraw vector commands. Steve (23 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | how to add graphic to part
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Is there a faq somewhere that outlines a way (easy, I hope) to stick a graphic image onto a part? Like for a custom mini-fig? I thought I had seen one once, but now I can't find it... Thanks, James Wilson Dallas, TX (23 years ago, 21-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Requesting another plug-in for LDDesignPad
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(...) Hmmm, what technique did you use to do the scaling? 0 SCALE meta-commands, or scale and then inline. I used the inliner approach. Here's how it goes in ldglite using the familiar LEDIT style commands (with the scale and inliner extensions). (...) (23 years ago, 21-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Requesting another plug-in for LDDesignPad
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Don, I tried what you suggested and it worked in L3Lab and LDView, but MLCad doesn't seem to recognize the scaling of the primitives in the part file. --Ryan (...) (23 years ago, 21-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Requesting another plug-in for LDDesignPad
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(...) Ah, I see what you mean (or I think I do)! I don't have the time to try it out right now, but I look forward to trying this. Thanks! --Ryan (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Requesting another plug-in for LDDesignPad
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(...) Actually, you could try this. First scale your primitives by 0.64. Then scale the parts by 0.64. Then fix the primitives inside the parts by rescaling the type 1 lines that pull in the primitives by 1.5625. I just tried this with ldglite on (...) (23 years ago, 19-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Requesting another plug-in for LDDesignPad
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(...) Ah, I see your problem. You want to rescale the primitives internally, and not rescale them in the type 1 lines where they're included by the part files. If you were on linux, you could probably do this by adding a few lines of code to the (...) (23 years ago, 19-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Requesting another plug-in for LDDesignPad
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Steve and Don, Thanks for the replies. I didn't know how to do that! Unfortunately, not only do I have to remake the _parts_(for which those tips would be useful), I have to recalculate the _primitives_, and your suggestions don't work on (...) (23 years ago, 19-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Error in Technic axle extender?
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(...) *ahem* All rotated and BFC'ed, here's the part you've all been waiting for: (URL) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Requesting another plug-in for LDDesignPad
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(...) You can do this with existing tools, here are a couple of ways. They're manual, but not as bad as doing it by hand.... 1. Open the file in Excel (or some other spreadsheet). Use formula cells to calculate the new component values. Replace the (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Requesting another plug-in for LDDesignPad
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(...) Make a one line file for each of them that scales by 0.64, and then use the inliner to pass the scale through to the part. eg. Make this: 1 16 0 0 0 0.64 0 0 0 0.64 0 0 0 0.64 knexpart.ldr Then run an inliner and save the results. (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Optimising piece use (Was: LDraw.org MOTM/SOTM voting for March is open)
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(...) I spent some time thinking about this yesterday. If we look at the problem of substituting the 1×1 plates with larger pieces as an optimisation problem, then we have to define a good "energy function" to describe the quality of various piece (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Error in Technic axle extender?
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(...) That's the beauty of the Ldraw parts library (and open-source in general) - when it matters enough, it'll get done 8?) ROSCO (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Requesting another plug-in for LDDesignPad
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Carsten and other Delphi programmers, I wish I could make some calculations in my K'nex part files to bring them all down to standard LDraw scale (right now they are much larger compared to the Lego parts). I would like to multiply all the points in (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Error in Technic axle extender?
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(...) What was the resolution on this? Any hope of getting a version that matches the "new" one? Usually you can just fudge it by rotating 45 degrees anyway, but once in a while it matters. (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: new rounded slopes...
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(...) Here are the parts (plus a couple of extra). 41747 - Wedge 2 x 6 Double Right (URL) - Wedge 2 x 6 Double Left (URL) - Wedge 2 x 6 Double Inverted Right (URL) - Wedge 2 x 6 Double Inverted Left (URL) - Wedge 6 x 8 x 2 Triple (URL) - Wedge 6 x 8 (...) (23 years ago, 15-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: creating 'real' technic builing instructions
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(...) Sorry about the delay, but I didn't realize that ldgview was actually ldglite until I got your email. I emailed a response (well actually 2 reponses) and here's the text just in case anyone else is interested. I know I'm interested in how this (...) (23 years ago, 14-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Self-Certifications
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(...) It seems to go in waves. Sometimes there won't be any activity for awhile, and sometimes we'll see a lot of postings in a day or few. I'm guessing part of the current lull is I'm falling behind in admin reviews. I hope to get more caught up (...) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Self-Certifications
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Hello Chris, (...) Nice that you did this experiment.. On the long run it would be nice if you did not only remove the self-certifications but also review other parts instead. There won't be any throughput when nobody is reviewing any parts... and (...) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Some part questions
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(...) Yes, they are official files. The parts\s\ directory is for 'subparts', or sections of objects, as needed by part authors. (...) We're working on that. Search for "BFC" in the .cad groups. (...) Yes, it would be very nice if this information (...) (23 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Some part questions
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Hi all, I was wondering are those parts in the <LDRAW>\parts\s dir official parts? Because there are some very strange parts there. Why not add some sort of triangle and rectangle facing information, so all polygrams can be assigned clockwise (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | creating 'real' technic builing instructions
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hi there, I'm working on a tool which creates 'real' building instructions for the old technic-models from dat-files . that means: 1. building a html-page 2. with the 'black and yellow' bars at the right and left border 3. with the 'new' parts (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ** MLCAD V2.12 **
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It's working correctly now. Sorry for any bother. Must've been a problem on my end... Best regards, --Ryan (...) a (...) right? (...) (23 years ago, 7-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: My LDraw Inliner
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(...) Ahh. I never got around to read the LEdit specific parts of the documentation (`alias ledit vi` :-). (...) :-) (...) I will reformulate it; "... Microsoft specific LEGO CAD programs". Which still is a bit unfair since at least LeoCAD also (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Help wanted from the programmers among the LUGNET group
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(...) Take a look at: (URL) can rotate a LDraw file an arbitrary angle around any of the three major axes. If you care to get your hands on an Ada compiler the program actually works. Jacob (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Help wanted from the programmers among the LUGNET group
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(...) LDraw AddOn does rotations in at least a couple of different places. In class file EditorFunctions.cls, there's the Rotate() method and the QuickRotate() method, both of which are capable of rotating any LDraw code around any of the three (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Help wanted from the programmers among the LUGNET group
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(...) Wouldn't you better off using the tools that already exist? Work with the subparts in whatever ldraw CAD program you prefer, then use one of the (now many) inliner tools to inline them at the very end when you're finished with the part. If you (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Help wanted from the programmers among the LUGNET group
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Hello, Is there someone among the programmers, who can deliver me the algorithm for the ROTATION of the five different line types ? Please in some understandable language, so that i can translate it into VB(A) code - NO ASSEMBLER CODE. Why i'm (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Inline POV-Ray code?
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(...) I think where I want to go with it, is to keep things simple and limited. At least for now. Embedded POV-Ray code should not make references to L3P-defined objects or definitions. It should stick strictly with primitive operations. Maybe later (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: My LDraw Inliner
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(...) Documentation, what documentation? Actually according to the LEDIT extensions section of readme.txt: The Piece menu now also contains: an (x,y,z) location option an (x,y,z) scale option (use negative numbers to mirror) a matrix replacement (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ** MLCAD V2.12 **
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Michael, The new features of version 2.12 look handy, including the option to save a parts list (shortcut button; I don't know if that option had been available). But I have noticed that the arrow keys, Home, End, and 'A' do not perform funtions (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: My LDraw Inliner
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(...) I never found it mentioned in the documentation. - Or is that a bug in the documentation and not in the inliner? (...) There is certainly more than one LDGLite user, but probably not quite as many as there are users for the Microsoft specific (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDDesignPad v0.9 released!
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Hello! New version is out now. Get it at (URL) ! + = New feature * = Bugfix - = Removed feature v0.9 2002/03/05 + Added Change/Replace Color dialog (added palette file) + Undo now possible even after save - Reverted to colored speedbuttons. Think (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev) !
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| | Re: Inline POV-Ray code?
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(...) Huh...? This is getting too complicated, lost me! Most of you have seen what I have done with adding POV part descriptions to parts. I believe that I was using them correctly with the "established" methods. To make much change would be too (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Spot the bug
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(...) I don't see one yet. But, I have not yet turned on display lists, vertex arrays, or cached normals, all of which I wrote code for while reading the reference manual as far back as June. Never ever write hundreds of lines of code before testing (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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