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I made a preview of a minifig maker called Ldraw Minifig Factory here (URL) the screenshot I want to know what you all think of it before I code it. Just forgot to let you know all that I just got a laptop an IBM 770z the only problem is that it (...) (22 years ago, 7-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Post-processing huge [POV] text files in Delphi
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You could use the 'text' type and process the reading and writing line by line manly insteat by using tstringlist, I asume. quick code for quick copy: var infile, outfile: text; line: string; assignfile(infile, 'bigfile.pov'); reset(infile); (...) (22 years ago, 7-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Post-processing huge [POV] text files in Delphi
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Very often, I have just changed a little detail in a model converted to POV by L3P. Then after I run the model through L3P again, I have to manually set all the modifications not handled by L3P arguments again. I try to make a utility program to fix (...) (22 years ago, 7-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Delphi and ldraw
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"Eduardo Vazquez Harte" <eduvazhar@terra.es> skrev i meddelandet news:H1yu3w.AKw@lugnet.com... (...) You can't. Period. Windows doesn't virtualize DOS graphics, only the DOS text screen. (It was possible in OS/2, but there are many other things (...) (22 years ago, 5-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Delphi and ldraw
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I try 2 ways more I can't do it. (...) (22 years ago, 5-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Delphi and ldraw
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(...) I don't think you can avoid the full screen with LDRAW. It's a fullscreen DOS program, which means Windows turns over the entire VGA hardware to LDRAW when it's running. If you don't want to use the fullscreen, you'll have to use a program (...) (22 years ago, 5-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Delphi and ldraw
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How can't I run avoiding ldraw to run in full screen? I'm using delphi 6 this is what I use to test WinExec(pchar('C:\le...draw\ldraw car.dat -MS '), SW_SHOW); (22 years ago, 5-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | What about another Ldraw CAD tool but in delphi?
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I whould like if possible to make my own CAD software like Ledit but for windows3.x/9x/NT/2K/XP but without using openGL or any hardware or direct X something like the way Ledit draws them and without using mouse but for windows small no power (...) (22 years ago, 1-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ** QUAD2DAT ** version 0.9.4 released **
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(...) I believe either LDDesignPad or LDraw Add-On will work for you. In LDAO, I'd open your file in the text editor. The first time you use the editor, you'll want to go into the editor's Options | Viewer Settings menu, and select which viewer to (...) (22 years ago, 31-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ** QUAD2DAT ** version 0.9.4 released **
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(...) Although I got MLCad to do it for me, this is good advice as I don't like what else it did to the file. Can you recommend a good inliner that runs in Win2K and is suitable for novice use? Thanks! (22 years ago, 31-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ** QUAD2DAT ** version 0.9.4 released **
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(...) Actually, if you go to the Quad2DAT website you'll find the v0.9.5 executable available for download. (The version number is in the fine print below the download link.) -Orion (22 years ago, 30-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ** QUAD2DAT ** version 0.9.4 released **
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(...) I guess it depends. Did Chris ask you to keep the file secret? Generally, my feeling is that you should hold onto the file, unless Chris specifically told you it was OK to pass it around. Steve (22 years ago, 30-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ** QUAD2DAT ** version 0.9.4 released **
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(...) a while back when Chris helped us with quad2dat stuff he gave us (me and george) an early v 0.9.5 its not my decition to let it out, so what does everyone think? i havent seen chris in a while, so shouldthe file be shared? (22 years ago, 30-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ** QUAD2DAT ** version 0.9.4 released ** [DAT]
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(...) You should be able to fix it by creating another file that references your file using a mirror matrix, and then inline that part with an inliner tool. So, for instance, if your part is x123.dat, you would create a file called mirror.dat with (...) (22 years ago, 30-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ** QUAD2DAT ** version 0.9.4 released **
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(...) OK, this isn't because of the "rotation" of the parts, it's because MLCad is inserting bogus commands at the top of the file 0 ROTATION CENTER 0 0 0 1 "Custom" 0 ROTATION CONFIG 0 0 It also is changing the value of the filename (removing the (...) (22 years ago, 30-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: ** QUAD2DAT ** version 0.9.4 released **
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(...) Hi Lar, If it's a rotate rather than a mirror, you can use the LDAO editor to quickly rotate it. This actually rotates the matrix rather than adding a ROTATE. LDAO can also do a mirror, but it's a bit more fiddling around IIRC, and I'd have to (...) (22 years ago, 30-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ** QUAD2DAT ** version 0.9.4 released **
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I like this program a lot. I have a number of features/suggestions to add, is it still in active development. However I have one problem that I need help with from the user community. It seems that there is a rotation being inserted somewhere... I (...) (22 years ago, 30-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Portable Ldraw system "Laptop"
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(...) I started with my 3th PC 'desktop' a compaq presario with 32MB of ram with a AMD with 233mhz and man I learn patience it was fun. The idea is to get a laptop and not a powerfull one with a nice price and nice system for ldraw. I'll have to (...) (22 years ago, 29-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Portable Ldraw system "Laptop"
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(...) [snip] (...) [snip] Eduardo, That should be more than enough power. I was using a 200MHz laptop w/ 80MB RAM the first year I got into LDraw and was able to do nice renders w/o problems. The key is patience. I've since ended up w/ a 400Mhz (...) (22 years ago, 29-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Portable Ldraw system "Laptop"
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I'll be buying an IBM 7708 Pentium II with 366mhz 128 MB of RAM 12GB of hard disk 14" TFT 'screen I think' CD - ROM disk unit Modem I need to see a screenshot of the IBM 7708 laptop. I believe that is enought for working with ldraw, mlcad, l3p, (...) (22 years ago, 29-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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