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(...) This is basically what I wanted to suggest. Fredrik's (and therefore my) method is probably what should be used. I really want all bendible part synthesis to be united under one program. -Orion (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Hi Don, I'd love it if you would set up the project on sourceforge. I know nothing about sourceforge specifically, although I've use source code control systems for many years. As we can see, there are plenty of wasy to improve lsynth, and I think (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) Orion, Right now there is a dependency between the lsynth GUI program and the lsynthcp program in that lsynth needs to know where lsynthcp is located to be able to run it. Currently the windows based installer uses the registry to identify (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Jennifer, You are using and old verion of LSynth where the length is provided. Version 2.0 has it removed, because it was not used. Orion, I agree completely on wanting a length control. I also want lsynth to somehow understand hose rigidity (I (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) Yes. That is one of the bugs in the program (I'm sure there are more lurking out there.) I've got constraints too close together. Again, I hope to fix this using an iterative length technique, or to have the synthesizer assume know that the (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) I'm pretty excited about that one myself. Currently it really only handles rubber bands as belts. I also need to add (because I need it in a model) the ability to have non-planar belts, and non-belts (constrained by bricks, liftarms and such). (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Hi Jaco, I started out on the wrong approach to synthesized hoses and rubber bands, where I used LDraw parts to create the bands and tubes. In most cases I don't need new parts, I just need to use a cylinder (or square) primitive and scale it as (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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"Orion Pobursky" <bilthefish@IHATESPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message (...) to (...) synthesized (...) need. (...) or (...) Yup, I realised that. The lsynth header allows you to specify the hose length (even though it currently isn't used) so I'm (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) For non fixed length parts such as hoses the constraint part work beautifully. What I'm talking about is the fixed length flexble axles and ribbed hoses. The shape of the curve structure betwwen two point is dependent on the length of the part (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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"Orion Pobursky" <bilthefish@IHATESPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message news:H8qqq5.Bu9@lugnet.com... (...) Horses for courses I suppose, I found the constraint method (when applied to pneumatic hoses) totally brilliant, in fact I can't imagine a simpler (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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This is the correct one. Forget the first! "Jaco van der Molen" <jmolen@globalxs.nl> schreef in bericht news:H8r0vD.9rr@lugnet.com... (...) example (...) straight (...) great! (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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This is the wrong version of my post :-) "Jaco van der Molen" <jmolen@globalxs.nl> schreef in bericht news:H8r08B.8ov@lugnet.com... (...) example (...) small (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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OK! I downloaded it again and it works! It is a great program. I especially like the option to create chains. What I do not understand though is why the fiber optic cable in the example has to be almost 2 Mb? All files are rather large. Like the (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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OK! I downloaded it again and it works! What I do not understand though is why the fiber optic cable in the example has to be almost 2 Mb? And all files seem rather large. Like the rubber band that spans 2 wheels (lsynth_band2 in the example file). (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Some comment about L-Synth: -I Really like the rubber bands\treads\chain feature. This is insanely useful. -I'm not so wild about the flex axle/ribbed hose implementation. Is there any way to specify the amount of ribs or the length of the axle and (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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If you have more than one MKLIST.EXE file on your machine you will get an error with the installer. I get the following error. ERROR Can not create the following directory: D:\Development\LDraw Installation\MKLIST....ment\LDraw (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Larry Pieniazek wrote: [ snipping to the point ;) ] (...) Yeah, we'll probably do that. Sooner or later. Steve (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Actually I said this: (...) Thought it was clear enough that I had uploaded again to fix the problem. Kevin (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) Nope, just guessing... because your first post just said "I redownloaded it and it worked" without the addtional info this post had, that it wasn't working for you and that you reuploaded and redownloaded... Hope that helps. (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Larry, When I came home from work, I downloaded what I had uploaded this morning, and ran into the same problems everyone else ran into. I re-uploaded it (making sure I was in binary mode). I then brought it down via the www and it worked. Have you (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) I just switched because I don't use anything that *requires* MPD, and I thought it was being "phased in" as the new standard... ROSCO (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Rosco, Why LDR instead of MPD? For reuse? I want to use MPD because it is very lsynth synthesis friendly. Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Did you download it to a machine that had never had any of the SW (or your development environment) on it to confirm that it works? Maybe there's a development environment dependency you're not aware of? (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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I re-uploaded it again. I downloaded and confirmed that it works. Hopefully it will work for the rest of you. Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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I re-uploaded it again. I downloaded and confirmed that it works. Hopefully it will work for the rest of you. Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) Are we talking linking (via Models directory) or importing? Using import, I've used up to 4 levels, and haven't seen any restriction yet. The only downside is that many utilities (eg LDAO tools) can't handle these, but you can get around that (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Based on format discussions Steve and I have had, I don't think there is any limit to how many times you can nest MPD files. I have never tried it out myself, though. -Tim (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Can't they already? Play well, Jacob (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) are (...) Though MLCad can't automatically import MPD files, you can use a text editor to copy and past the code from MPD2 into MPD1. However, the program will only view the subfiles of MPD2 as new subfiles of MPD 1 (if that made sense :) To (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Me too. So then I typed "start LSynth_setup.exe" to give it a full windows launch and got the quickly disappearing DOS window. Same for Start/Run LSynth_setup.exe and an explorer click on the executable. Could it be looking for something else (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) This is NOT hapening with the .exe file on the website. A small dos window does appear for a short time but nothing else? Perhaps the .exe is corrupt? -AHui (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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I downloaded the program, opened a DOS window and typed "LSynth_setup.exe" and got the following... This program cannot be run in DOS mode. Windows 2000 Professional. Ron (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Jaco and Ahui, Please try the new lsynth. It provides working examples in an MPD file. Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi Don, The setup was supposed to give you choices on where you wanted it to install, what program group you wanted start menus under, and confirm that you wanted to install. LSynth needs some special LDraw parts, so after it copies the parts into (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) (URL) where does the setup program put things? When I ran it it flashed a DOS window for a split second, then went away. Don PS. Any chance you'll release the source code to the command line portion, lsynthcp? That sounds like it might be (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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I'm working on one of the most complicated designs I've ever created, made of many sub-models. Some of the sub models are so complicated that they are made of sub-models. For example, I'm working on a pneumatic adding machine. The keyboard is made (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Thanks, Rod. I fixed the URL. Kevin (...) themselves. (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Your download link (URL) 404 (not found). Ron (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) Wow! This is awesome! And you've kept this cool little program all for yourself all these years. No, it's just that I haven't been surfing your pages for ages. Shame on me. Pity it doesn't recognize .ldr files, but that's understandable (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) (URL)Wouldn't it be great if we could preview LDraw files just the same? This looks like it'd be a snap to combine the code in the article above with an ldraw DLL that renders to a bitmap. And I bet someone could make that DLL pretty quickly (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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