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(...) Well, heraldry terms and technical names for objects are always good. I'm looking for any words that people might reasonably use to search for a part. You can check the patterned parts on these pages: (URL) you click the link on each (...) (22 years ago, 7-Aug-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yup, exactly right. If you want to get *stunningly* technical, "real" heraldry omits any punctuation at all(1), but I find it a real pain to read that way. thanks, James 1:technically "Or, A Lion Salient Azure" should be "Or a lion salient (...) (22 years ago, 7-Aug-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Gold. :) Almost all of the heraldric terms come from old French. Salient is derived old French for leaping or jumping; Or is old (and current) french for gold. (...) Will do. Is there specific info you're looking for, or should I just shout if (...) (22 years ago, 7-Aug-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) So this part (URL) be "Or, A lion Salient Azure"? Steve (22 years ago, 7-Aug-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Or = gold Dave! (22 years ago, 7-Aug-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Maybe this is a stupid question, but does "Or" have a jargon-meaning? Or is it just 'or', used in an unusually-constructed phrase? I'll add this information to the ldraw parts keywords. If y'all have any other castle-y goodness to add to the (...) (22 years ago, 7-Aug-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Whoops! wasn't paying enough attention. :/ That thar lion is Salient. Both feet on the floor. so "A Lion Salient Or, on a Field Azure" or more traditionally: "Azure, A lion Salient Or" HTH James (22 years ago, 7-Aug-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) "A Lion Rampant Or, on a Field Azure" thanks, James (22 years ago, 7-Aug-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.cad.dev)
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The lion on this shield: (URL) would it be described as Rampant? Dexter? Steve (22 years ago, 7-Aug-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New Plugin for LDDesignPad
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Hello Orion, to program a plugin like that isn't too easy. I wish i could help but I am an math idiot ;) Maybe someone else can help in this matter? Play well Carsten p.s.: I will put a link on my website as soon as I can spare some time. Work is (...) (22 years ago, 7-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Updating other persons parts?
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[XFUT lugnet.cad.dev] (...) As long as you've tried to make contact, and not gotten a response, go ahead and make your changes. Steve (22 years ago, 7-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.lcd, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Beginner's tutorial to programming LDraw utilities (Delphi Edition)
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(...) Very good idea. :) (...) Very nice. You might want to include a short description of what IniFile.ReadString does, especially the third parameter. For myself, I'd rather include a bozo-value (like '%%NOTFOUND%%' or '') as the default value for (...) (22 years ago, 7-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I can appreciate your concern. For now, let me develop a document that treats the two specs as variations. If you're unhappy with my results, we could easily rework it into two totally separate standards. BUT, IMO, a new standard that breaks (...) (22 years ago, 7-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New Plugin for LDDesignPad
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After some more extensive testing, I've found this plugin to not work the way it was intended. It will still work for some files and for single sided, non-hollow "parts" but otherwise it will not produced adequate results. Oh well, I guess I (...) (22 years ago, 7-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Beginner's tutorial to programming LDraw utilities (Delphi Edition)
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I'm planning to make a tutorial on the subject mentioned above. There is a lot of code that could be recycled and a lot of wheels that shouldn't be reinvented all the time by new programmers. Step One is about making your program find the path to (...) (22 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New Plugin for LDDesignPad
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(...) Released for 20 minutes and I already found a major problem, concave portions of parts don't convert well. -Orion (22 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I've completed my first plugin for LDDesignPad. It will take a file and BfC certify for CCW winding. There are a few limitations: 1.) It doesn't handle bad vertex sequences, so these need to be fixed prior to running. 2.) It won't add INVERTNEXT (...) (22 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Good point. I like the idea of a clearly defined new version of the file format. This would be a good point also to rename multi-part files in the second version to something relating to .LDR - perhaps .MPL could make the distinction? -Tim (22 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Or perhaps MPD and LD2. We have discussed the time for a new, not LDraw compatible standard years ago. I don't like the idea of an "almost LDraw compatible" standard. Isn't it better to go all the way with maybe type 6, 7, 8... commands than (...) (22 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Paths, explicit drive references, and the case of file names
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(...) I would rather say that I had been lucky with the design of the program. I don't think I had to change much to make it work as you requested, but you can compare this and the previous version of the source code. Play well, Jacob (22 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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