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(...) And by default, LDraw files are not required to have the .dat extension -- it's just the default. Steve (26 years ago, 21-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) i'm a little unclear on this point, gyug... .MPD files have the same .DAT extension???? perhaps you mean when posting to LUGNET??? because all of the .MPD's i've DL'd from people's sites... and even MPD's built with my M-Peedy program have (...) (26 years ago, 20-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | wanted: Arne Hackstein's e-mail address
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does anyone know Arne Hackstein's e-mail address? (26 years ago, 20-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | part naming ideas
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here are some suggestions for the names of parts some are to make it easier to identify which part is being talked about... some are changes of category that are more logical because a part is not specific to one theme e.g. castle or space for (...) (26 years ago, 20-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: MPD Question...
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(...) Well, here's my impression of the lastest discussion. (...) The first file in an MPD file is the one that gets drawn. (...) _valid_ leading lines are technically an error. There should be no lines before the first "0 FILE" except comment lines (...) (26 years ago, 20-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I searched through the archives of this group and could not find a definitive definition of the MPD format (there were several contradictory postings). So if someone can answer the following that would be great: 1) Which part is assumed to be the (...) (26 years ago, 19-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: M-Peedy page now up
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(...) grrr...rrr... can jeff do *anything* right today???? here's the correct link: (thanks tore) (URL) -- / /----- ---- - ---- - -- | | | | | | | | | |- - | | | | | | ---- - ---- |---- - onyx@flash.net| | - (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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M-Peedy is now up to .2 beta... it has checking/dialog boxes to prompt before overwriting the .MPD file you are creating, or any .DAT files it is extracting... DL it at: www.flash.net/~onyx/...peedy.html let me know what problems arise, and what you (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) If no one is into that effort already, yes it would be nice :-) The part is somewhat similar to the 3651 Technic Connector, but fits axles on both ends. Thanks! Laurentino Martins [mailto:lau@mail.telepac.pt] [(URL) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) .DAT (...) the (...) proggy (...) This is probably a good thing. If I have a model using unofficial parts, then to share it with the world as an .MPD, I would want the unofficial part to be added as a sub-model. Otherwise I'd have to inline (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I posted the file as a follow-up to your request, but I did the Followup-to header incorrectly -- I pointed my reply to *just* lugnet.cad.dat, instead of *both* lugnet.cad and lugnet.cad.dat. My apologies. (...) Must be us part authors are (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Adriano Aicardi's e-mail address wanted
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(...) From 3649.dat: 0 Author: Adriano Aicardi 1998 (ike@money.it) Don't know if this is still correct. Leonardo (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Adriano Aicardi's e-mail address wanted
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does anyone have Adriano Aicardi's e-mail address? (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts
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(...) what part are you talking about? is it like the technic connector but with an axle hole? i can build that for you if you really want it. it would only be very beta/mockup but it would be usable. let me know if you want me to make it. (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Wow Lars, version 1.1 really is a leap forward. Steve and Lars already reported that Mklist.exe works on Win95b, Win98 and NT4.0. I'm pleased to report that it also works on MS DOS 6.2. Are there any other platforms Mklist should be tested on ? (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Okay... i've got the first test of my .MPD merger/splitter up... nothing fancy.. i'll get the interface, error checking, etc out of the way... right now i just want a testable copy of the parse routines to create/split .MPD files out there... give (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: MPD format
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(...) Option (2) is the better choice. Option (1) will be a META command, specifically I believe "0 INCLUDE foo.dat" will be the syntax. (...) Anything other than a comment will be an error. The presence of comments will be accepted, but no META (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: How much is too much?
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(...) basically the rule of thumb i try to stick with, is the basis for our point of origin primitive... the stud.. the standard LDraw stud uses a 16-segment cylinder... so whenever possible i try to use 16-sided cylinders anytime i'm dealing with a (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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A short while ago Onyx produced a MAX2DAT converter which seemed like such a good idea I was inspired to look into converting from other text based formats. I chose VRML files to start with because they seemed very much alike to the DAT format. (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) whoa.. what an image that conjures up (stretching skin over the framework) wild, man ..joseph g (26 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) (Was I expected to guess that someone have answered my mail in a different newsgroup?) I was not expecting that with so much people using LDraw not to find such common TECHNIC parts that that are available since last year (at least?). I know I (...) (26 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) steve bliss posted this part to CAD.DAT earlier this week: (URL) (26 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Steve (26 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I've posted this in lugnet.cad and nobody answered me, so I guessed I must have posted it in the wrong newsgroup... In LeoCAD I can't find some parts that are common in the newer TECHNIC sets. Is LeoCAD list complete or is outdated? I find very (...) (26 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | RE: MPD format
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Just to sum things up: Paul Gyugyi wrote (1): (...) and in another posting (2): (...) I think (1) and (2) are contradicting. I agree with (2). The functionality of (1) should be obtained with a META command. (...) Do we agree that valid drawing (...) (26 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | RE: [makelist] mklist v1.0 ready for testing
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(...) I have developed it on Windows 98, and tested it on NT 4.0 too. /Lars (26 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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BTW, I tried mklist under Windows 95, and it works fine. Has anyone tried it on Windows 98? Having a working makelist to include in a near-future parts update would be greate. Steve (...) (26 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Great! Your message just crossed my mail wining for this. I'm going to try it out this evening. -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Lars C. Hassing <lch@ccieurope.com> Aan: lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com> Datum: woensdag 17 (...) (26 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [makelist] mklist v1.0 ready for testing
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Hello Lars, Are you still developping your mklist program for making the parts list ? I liked the program because it runs on both my MS-DOS 6.2 machine at home, and the (new and fast) Windows NT 4.00 based machine at work. I can't test it, but your (...) (26 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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New in v1.1: 1) sort by number if descriptions are the same 2) non-ascii sort to let 3005.dat come before 3005-a.dat 3) SkipTilde-question and Duplicate-check changed to options (try -h) in order to make mklist function like James's makelist. 4) (...) (26 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: MPD format
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(...) I think it's OK to load an MPD as a parts library in order to search parts in there, rather than in the usual directories. But I hope you agree that the well-known semantics of "1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 parts.dat" should not be changed to (...) (26 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Our Modeling Future. (Was:Feature requests for LDraw/LEdit v. 2)
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(...) ACCKK!!.. sorry gyug!!!.. actually it was Paulo Caparica Junior who wrote DAT2DXF... (just can't resist giving you credit for the super whacky-hacky proggies we have in our midst).. please excuse the misinformation J (26 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | [Part] 6575 Technic Cam
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it's too big to post to CAD.DAT... but it's finished... Terry said a great many people had been requesting it... so mail me and i'll shoot a copy to anyone who requests it J (26 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Our Modeling Future. (Was:Feature requests for LDraw/LEdit v. 2)
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Don't confuse your names; I did not write the DAT2DXF program, I think that might have been Paul Evans Bauch (spelling?). I don't have ACAD, but I use DXF files as a common file format. The registered version of AC3D includes source for a DXF (...) (26 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: MPD format
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(...) I'm thinking of the case where foo.dat only appears in the MPD file fooarchive.dat, such as would happen if someone replaced the whole P directory with a single MPD file to save disk space, or if I chose to distribute my unofficial Throwbot (...) (26 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDLite 1.7 suggestions
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(...) That's what I would think... Since it is already checking for Z-ordering, I could Force a backwards redraw by manually re-ordering the lines in the DAT file... and then I could nip off and shoot me-self :) But I don't see why LDLite couldn't (...) (26 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) You could draw using the normal algorithms, right? You'd just have to step through the main file backwards, one line at a time. BTW, great idea, Karim! --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: small ufo saucer hulls
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Steve Bliss wrote in message <36ee61f9.2510929@lu...et.com>... (...) all (...) and (...) Oh, well, I can certainly understand that. I can't help you find them, but if you want to dump them to me I JUST LOVE to organize things. Hey I've got a whole (...) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Feature requests for LDraw/LEdit v. 2
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Steve Bliss wrote in message <36ee613a.2319642@lu...et.com>... (...) ACAD comes in several flavors. The industrial strength ACAD is a monster, but it can handle just about anything you can think of in a CAD. For those who may not need all the bells (...) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Feature requests for LDraw/LEdit v. 2
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(...) Going back to the question of new line-types in LDraw2, if we had all the curved-surface types, there would be little or no use for the Type-5 line, as long as we could specify that a specific object should be outlined/edged. Or have separate (...) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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