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(...) Ah Ha! Apparently there were TWO other pulleys you weren't telling us about. (URL) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Agreed! -- Steven B. Combs, Publisher Bricks in my Pocket (BimP) (URL) Submission Information: (URL) member #414 "Kevin Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:H92o80.D83@lugnet.com... (...) question! (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Don, I'm assuming four pulleys in this case. Two are parallel to each other where the rubber band bends to be non-planar, and two others that pull the band around the two parallel pulleys. Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Don, this is what I do for planar rubber bands and it works great if the two pulleys are in the same plane. But I can imagine a four pulley configuration where the first pulley is parallel to the YZ plane, the second pulley is parallel to the (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It sounds like you want the intersection point of the 2nd circle with the plane of the first circle. I guess that should be exactly one point unless they're in the same plane. However, I don't see how the rubber band gets back to the first (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'm sure you're probably looking for a solution with x,y,z coords, but just in case, the 2D solution is on page 7 of Graphics Gems, and also here: (URL) think you should be able to transform your circles into the x,y plane with one center at (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Steven, I debated with myself about adding L3PAO, because it certainly has had a positive effect for people who don't like command lines (and even for some of those that do). LPub has all the capabilities of L3PAO plus a *lot* more, so I felt like (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) With two circles in the same plane you can have four possible tangent lines. LSynthcp uses this to calculate straight line segments of rubber bands around pulleys. In 3D space you can have circles that are tangent along one line. Imagine a (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) What have you tried so far? And which tangent? Think about it, there's an infinite number of solutions. Even on a plane there are multiple solutions. Recommendation: start with the book _Computational Geometry in C_ by Joseph O'Rourke. -Erik (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Wouldn't they have to be on the same plane in order to find the tangency? Or did you mean the tangency of two spheres? Steven (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I just completed Chapter 9 of your book and I think I answered my own question! Steven (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Anyone know how to find out the tangent between two cicles in 3D space? Kevin (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) ;^) Relax, we are talking about both on the command line that starts the program, as well as on the LDraw meta-commands that start synthesis of a specific part. Notice he said getopt() style parameters, not getopt() to get the parameters. (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Whoah, wait a minute! I like getopt() as much as anyone, but I thought we were talking about something to go *inside* the file on the SYNTH BEGIN line(s), not necessarily on the command line. Units may be universal for all synthesized parts in (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Much better! I've been programming on Windows too much lately (isn't any amount too much? ;^) Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi. Just wondering: How do you calculate the seam width in programs like L3P and LDView? Do you just scale the part by x% ? Or ? Trond Hasse Lie Norway (o\_/o) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) What about getopt() style parameters, eg: -f foo.dat -l 20 -u cm --filename foo.dat --length 20 --units cm ROSCO (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yeah, I thought so. Other options are copying the line before the strupper(), or using strnicmp() or strncasecmp() for the keyword test. The copy method is easier to do in a portable way. (...) I like the named parameters. That makes it easy (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'd like to discuss changes before they are made, so I can keep track of new capabilities of the program. (...) Yes. I was trying to make lsynth not case sensitive when it came to recognizing keywords, but I don't like the fact that it changes (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I don't know about the math, but I do have a few thoughts after a quick peek at the sources. So how should we go about making changes? Discuss them here first, or just put them in CVS with an appropriate comment if we think they won't break (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi ok.. i changed the two mentioned points and uploaded v1.01. Play well Carsten "Jaco van der Molen" <jmolen@globalxs.nl> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:H90I85.9wE@lugnet.com... (...) in (...) your (...) information (...) un-install. (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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OK, this works! It does show up with DAT and LDR extension but... ...could it also be associated with MPD? Furthermore I suggest to explicitely display lines that have useful info in them, for now it displays lines like ROTATION CENTER and ROTATION (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I like the fact the it doesn't use the registry. This mean I can move the LDRAW directory around at will and have to worry about flargging Windows not being able to update itself. You would think something as basic as update all the registry (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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I agree that it should ask. For example I keep my LDraw files in C:\Program Files\LDraw and MLCAD in C:\Program Files\MLCAD. It was a little awkward to set up, but it works great. If LDraw used a proper Windows installer then this wouldn't be an (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) Another issue is the ownership of the changes. Do you wish to require authors who contribute changes to assign ownership of the changes to you? If you do not, then the program becomes partly owned by you and all whose code you have accepted (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Hello! I was sick and bored and Leonardo did not have the time so i just wrote it. Its the same little expansion to the explorer shell so when you hover your mouse over a LDR or DAT file it will give you the basic header information in a tooltip. It (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) One last question; I am curious as to why you didn't include LP3AO as a "Power Tool?" This is another one of those no-brainers (creating a GUI for a command line program). Was it due to the timeline of your text? Steven (22 years ago, 18-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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<snip> (...) Thanks Steven. Comments like this are highly motivating. When I started writing LPub, I'd only just heard of L3P, although I new of POV-Ray from way back. It has been quite a learning experience. (...) I learned a lot about L3P writing (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Maybe we can look forward to it in the next version. (...) LPub is just an amazing tool. I was not a fan of POV-Ray and the LP3 conversion tool to create documents. However, using LPub has encouraged me to begin creating many more (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) OK the installer is slightly less sucky, because now it puts the parts in the LDRAW\Parts directory. Kevin (22 years ago, 18-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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I totally agree with all these comments. This especially rears it's head when doing passenger coaches where I've use the same sub model 36 times in s set of 4 coaches! Which brings up an interesting philosophical question about instruction (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Steven, Hopefully the sourceforge effort will also get some folks that can help me with the mathematical ins and outs of the effort. I contacted Michael about lsynthcp support in MLCAD, but he was already wrapping up the 3.0 release. I'm hoping that (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Kevin, Excellent idea. Using SourceForge will hopefully garner you some additional support and programming resources to allow you to further LSynth's development. When will LPub be moving to SourceForge? As an aside, I have been reviewing your new (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Kevin Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:H8vFL3.9Js@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) it to (...) I don't see any down side to doing that. Mike -- Mike Walsh - mike_walsh at mindspring.com (URL) - North Carolina (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) I remembered this issue the other day and was surprised no one had asked about it. (...) I like the idea of creating the seperate picture, but would prefer to add it to the screen web pages also. (...) Thanks Mike, Kevin (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) Installers are highly uninspiring, but I will fix this for the next release (which will happen as soon as I fix and test the installer.) Kevin (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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I really like your tool, it will save me a lot of time and struggling and allow mw to add to my models I do, hower have a a comment on the installer you use, it sucks.. instead of placing the parts in the correct parts directories it placed them in (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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"Kevin Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:H8t9F9.BAt@lugnet.com... (...) parts (...) in (...) was (...) Yeah! I have seen this with many of the train models I have created. In one case I used a sub-model 8 times and LPub (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Hi Ahui, If you are still having problems, just email an example that does not work, or post it here. I will figure it out and get back to you. Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Hi Dave, Right now the installer is too simple. It needs to know where the LDraw directory is, so it can add some parts to your parts directory. It does a simple search for this: LDRAW\MKLIST.EXE on your hard disks. It cannot find it. I'd guess one (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Bill, My initial thought is.... what are the chances that someone will find a commercial use for this program? But in thinking about it more, I have no idea how far other contributing authors will take this program, so out of respect for their (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) GPL is the best in terms or preserving the author's rights. Public Domain is a bad idea - it means you surrender any rights to the software, and people can then basically use it to build their own commercial programs and wouldn't owe you (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Hi Will, As I was writing the original post, I realized that I had a question for myself, does the X4 go on the image itself, or does it go in the web pages generated by LPub. If I make it go into the web pages, then I think it leaves more (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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While it is a great idea to supress the multiple rendering of the same steps, I'm not sure there is really any added value to displaying the "x4" on the last step. I find that I always take a pass through the final rendered instruction images, in my (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Hi, I've decided to tackle an issue that has been on my mind for a while. LPub's handling of building instructions, where sub-model user-defined parts are used multiple times in the overall design. It all started when I was editing a DSDK model (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Hello! New version is out now. Get it at (URL) ! + = New feature * = Bugfix - = Removed feature Changes since version 1.3 v1.4 01/16/2002 * Fixed some L3P problems with long filenames or -paths * Fixed list of recently used files * Fixed a problem (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev) !
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Tim and Michael, I'd love to see this feature as well, although it is easy to say from the outside. We have no idea how MLCAD is orgranized, so this may be pretty hard to do, especially getting nice preview images of synthesized parts. Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) an (...) the (...) so (...) Right. Keep up the good work! I am looking forward to the next version. Jaco (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) Great! They are 73590A and B btw... :-) Jaco (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) Not really. I tend to waver somewhere between the GPL and Public Domain, depending on how long it's been since I've had trouble with piece of closed software. Of the few licences here (URL) I've read, the zlib license is the shortest, and I do (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Hi Ahui, You do not need to use an editor to add these coments. Lsynth compensates for MLCAD's WRITE statements, by ignoring the WRITE keywoard. Two things to examine: 1. LSynth is case sensitive, so SYNTH is not the same as synth. 2. If you are (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Has anyone besides Kevin been able to get LSynth to work? I can get it to run the examples.mpd file but when ever I get my own file it does nothing? I have added the comments in a text editor (since MLCAD adds the WRITE statements to commets) and (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Hi Don, I have no idea what license to choose. Do you have a recommendation? Kevin (...) <snip> (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) Sure, send it along. I think the only sticky point that should be resolved before creating the project is the source code license. (I say "sticky" because we seem to have gotten stuck there with the parts library and a recent attempt to get (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) I STRONGLY suggest to Michael he work on a plugin architecture for MLCAD and publish the specs. Then anyone can write MLCAD plugins without Michael having to do all of the work to integrate the 3rd party generators. It should free up some time (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Hi Dave, I'll have to look when I'm home to figure out what to do here. I think it looks in C:\LDRAW, and/or looks for an LDRAW environment variable to be set. I think it depends on the same environment variable L3P depends on, but I'm not sure. (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) installed" error when I try to install LSynth 2.0. This is especially baffling to me, since I used LEdit not two minutes prior to trying to install LSynth. Do I need to install it in a particular directory? Dave! (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) A simple fix to reduce the file size some what is to limit the amount of digits in the synthisized part. For example, I noticed that lsynth writes 10.000000 instead of just 10. Also I think 3 or 4 decimal places is accurate enough (although (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) Me too. I'd also like it to be integratable into development environments. This is why the actual synthesizer is a simple ASNI C program that can be accessed via command prompt methods, whether that be unix or windows, and all the actual (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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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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| | LSynth 2.0 Installer BUG (Was Re: LSynth 2.0 Available)
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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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| | Re: Parts Tracker Email Notification System
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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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| | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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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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| | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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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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| | Re: MPD files in MPD files?
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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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| | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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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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| | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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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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| | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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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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| | Re: MPD files in MPD files?
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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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| | Re: MPD files in MPD files?
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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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| | Re: MPD files in MPD files?
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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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| | Re: MPD files in MPD files?
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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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| | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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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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| | Re: lsynth - LDRAW compatible bendable part synthesizer available
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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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| | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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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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| | LeoCAD / LDraw Shell Extension DLL (Was: Preview .dat...)
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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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| | Re: Preview .dat and .ldr in Windows Explorer?
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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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