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(...) Why not force comments to be a meta-command like MLcad does with WRITE? Then the only problem you have is new files created with Ledit, and old files which will need to be converted. And Ldraw would still handle them OK. ROSCO (22 years ago, 15-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes. (...) I think we'll see coming out of this discussion something that will prevent the meta-command chaos we've seen for the past years. No one here is talking about a new file format, or new version of a spec - yet. First we need to fully (...) (22 years ago, 15-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Are we REALLY stuck with current meta-commands? Sure if we change them all (the META Statements) after setting up a "body of standards" our old files may not work but somewhere down the future is it NOT better to NOT worry about backward (...) (22 years ago, 15-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Larry Pieniazek writes: [...] (...) I agree with the route of a standards body to control (officially adopted) meta-commands. The second option is just a fix, and the third option is unacceptable, especially if we want to see more (...) (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Kevin & Travis - These are very good points. As a non-programmer, but someone who has a general knowledge of the LDraw file format, I think it is a good idea to separate comments from meta-commands. Also, talk of a standards body is a good (...) (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Sure, but give me a moment. I just noticed the the graphic I added to the text didn't make it into the PDF therefore skewing the TOC. -Orion (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Travis, I could not agree more. I've been tossing around the concepts of an LDraw file format standards body with Tim and others, and IMHO the weakest link in the LDraw file format is that comments and meta-commands use the same record type. (...) (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Namespace Pollution is a technical term. It's not meant as an insult, mind you. It refers to a common phenomena in programming, in which things become hard to use because of scope problems, because things named in global scope interfere with (...) (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Neither. You should PUBLICLY support the command and make it known that you are doing so. (...) maybe. (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Thanks, Orion! Would you mind emailing me the plain text, so I can assemble it on a web page for LDraw.org? We can also host the PDF you created on the server for those who prefer it in that format. -Tim (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) OK I'm done. Here's the spec in a more readable format: (URL) didn't change anything, I just cleaned up the text and made a TOC. (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Having read through this thread, I've seen a lot of good points made. However, it also appears that people haven't really fully thought about the implications of meta-commands. It's very important to realize that meta-commands are presented as (...) (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ain't that the truth! (...) This is kinda what I was proposing. If you had known that the APP {appname} branch of the namespace was open for any developer to use as he saw fit, but that other commands needed more community buy in, you probably (...) (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I have invented a 'general purpose' header statement, 'Parent:' that points to the parent[s] of a model file. See example below. I find it very useful when sorting out Datsville submodels, and also in animations. I also use the 'Was:' statement for (...) (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) If you write FooCad, don't regard LTrax as a program, but rather a family of standard meta-commands. But as the "owner" of that family, I may change the spec's and thus make FooCAD incompatible... When it comes to LTrax - I know you most (...) (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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In thinking about this a bit more, I flashed on a quote from Yoda in one of the Star Wars movies "Hard to see the future is".... I've added some meta-commands to the name space that are certainly specific to LPub and the creation of building (...) (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Kyle, This seems very pragmatic solution. I like it because there does not seem to be a "one size fits all" solution. Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I think that, with a little investigation, each command might be identified as 'general purpose' or 'application specific.' I think that haveing the app-specific ones prefixed with the appname (or even 'APP {appname}') isn't such a bad idea. (...) (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I don't think of any new meta-commands as polution. Possibly over-population? I've got mixed feelings about the LTrax solution. It is very hard to know which meta-commands will be usable across many applications. Certainly the original LDraw (...) (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) except that if you do that, it discourages cross-tool commands. If I'm writing FooCAD, and I want to implement one of the LTrax commands, should I make a new command '0 FooCad xxxx'? should I secretly support the '0 LTrax xxxx'? I'm not sure (...) (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Good initiative! Please see (URL) don't know how official "0 Author:" is, but L3Lab uses it for the titlebar. /Lars (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) One thing that I think would help reduce namespace pollution is if everyone did what LTrax did... prefix the command with the app name for uniqueness. Not a perfect solution, of course. (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I have some LTrax commands. (LTrax is an LDraw compatible "Track Designer") The LTrax are not 'official' LCad commands, but I wish to reserve the keyword. 0 LTrax Position <x y z> 0 LTrax Angle <v> [Degs*] 0 LTrax Object 9Volts\Straight.txt** 0 (...) (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi All, As long as we're updating documentation, I'd like to create a list of the known meta-commands. The process for defining new meta-commands is completely unregulated, which is fine, but as a newcomer to LDRAW compatible CAD tools development, (...) (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) <snip> (...) I agree. (...) LPub and LSynth are case sensetive for all meta-command, including MPD's FILE and NOFILE meta-commands. Kevin Clague (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Your fresh eyes are very welcome. We had long discussions where sections of the spec were changed/moved/rewritten over and over, and I think there are some unnecessary repetions and redundacies, so a new full rewrite would be quite beneficial. (...) (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes. (...) Huh? Isn't NOCLIP/CLIP exactly for "un-commenting" a section (including subfile references) that hasn't been BFC checked? /Lars (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) L3P and L3Lab treat the FILE case-sensitive. (...) I think the "file type" meta-commands are the only ones that have been defined to NOT be case-sensitive. And yes, the "syntax" is a mess :-) (...) I agree. (...) L3P and L3Lab: MPD - (...) (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I have a question about Meta-commands. Are meta-commands all supposed to be case-sensitive? As an example, is the 0 FILE MPD meta-command case-sensitive? I'm asking this because I have an MPD file that contains sub-files that themselves obviously (...) (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) This is really no different from the fact that the incoming certify state has to also be on. So a subfile won't be BFC'd unless all its parents are certified and it is certified as well. Also, presumably if you refer to a subfile in a section (...) (22 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) The spec should probably be updated to reflect this, I suppose. Please note that this comment and everything below is meant as constructive criticism. It's not meant as a complaint or a slight. I'd just like to see the spec improved. I'll even (...) (22 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'm currently doing this. Give me a couple of days. -Orion (22 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) What if file has NOCLIP, and subfile has CLIP (with or without accompanying NOCLIP)? Couldn't that become confusing? Should it automagically revert back to NOCLIP when the subfile is finished? ROSCO (22 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Sorry this wasn't clear. It does mean 'current file and all subfiles'. More accurately, it means 'turn off clipping until/unless it gets turned back on in this file, overriding any possibility of clipping in a subfile, until the end of this (...) (22 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Please go ahead and do it. Make it so. Steve (22 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Steve - Do you want to stick this on the site, or do you want me to? Either way is fine with me. -Tim (22 years ago, 12-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Thanks to everyone for the info. Now that I'm reading the spec, I have a question (and may have more later). In one part, it lists three conditions that must be met in order for BFC clipping to occur. The last condition is the following: 4 - No (...) (22 years ago, 12-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yes, that's the latest document that can claim to be a spec. I checked the Parts Tracker FAQ, but it just pointed me to (URL) just has links, primarily to the document Lars found. If anyone wants to rewrite the proposal document to something (...) (22 years ago, 12-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) The wonderful Google came up with this link on a search for "BFC CERTIFY NOCERTIFY CLIP NOCLIP CW CCW INVERTNEXT" (URL) to me looks like the latest revision, but I guess Steve Bliss is the right person to ask. /Lars (22 years ago, 11-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I agree. If someone provides me the spec, I'll add it to the site. -Tim (22 years ago, 11-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I'd like to (finally) add BFC support to LDView, so I performed a search here on lugnet.cad.dev to try and track down the BFC spec. Unfortunately, all the links I found were no longer valid. (Seeing as how the articles were 2 to 3 years old, that's (...) (22 years ago, 11-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Chris, Do you have any news about the update? Jaco "Chris Dee" <chris_w_dee@hotmail.com> schreef in bericht news:HB4AJJ.AMC@lugnet.com... (...) time, (...) posting. (...) for (...) (22 years ago, 10-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Orion Pobursky" <bilthefish@IHATESPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message news:HB9Itr.4zw@lugnet.com... (...) eyeball (...) Well, I've just started authoring parts, but I am rather fond of my calipers, especially for inside measurements. My set happens to (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) If the region of the part interfaces with an existing part then I base it upon that. Although, feel free to challenge existing parts if they are incorrect. Otherwise I do use a micrometer or steel rule (Imperial dimensions - using 1/64 = (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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A question for all part authors How do you figure out the measurements for your parts? I'm not talking about the obvious measurements such as stud width but the more intricate details on some of the more complex parts. Do you use a micrometer, (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ah, I searched for "crosshair" in the documentation, but didn't check what the axis was. It looks like it displays the rotation centre at all time? That's useful. As you say, it works in a different way than the LEdit crosshair, but it's still (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It might already have what you want. Look for the Axis command on the Turn menu. The command is something like /ta to toggle it. It's not exactly the 2D crosshair from LEdit, but it could be useful. If not, let me know what would make it (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I have used the LEdit emulation mode in Ldglite a lot recently, and I find it very useful. However, there is one graphical feature that I miss from the orginal LEdit, namely the crosshair. The crosshair is useful when rotating parts, to see where (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That's why I use LDAO. ctl-x, ctl-y, ctl-z for rotating in the Editor. Steve (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Progress yesterday was close to zero due to unavailability of ldraw.org for much of the day. Maybe today... Chris (22 years ago, 2-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) The easiest way would be a list of updates for example a simple text file containing the package names and date of release. This way an application can check when it last downloaded an update and incrementally load newer updates or even (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I don't like making "standards" that only work for products from one company. But nothing prevents somebody from implementing a protocol as a DLL for Windows - or as an Open Source library that anybody can use. But first we should agree on a (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I'm going to be working on LDraw Update 2003-01 this weekend. During this time, the Parts Tracker may be shutdown for file submissions and review posting. Thank you for your patience. Chris (22 years ago, 1-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Once the numbering system is in place, we then can deal with the next sticky issue: part names. Since everyone will want their names to be the final name chosen, I would like to sidestep that issue - there should not be a final name chosen. But (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) Someone recently suggested to me a parts updater DLL we could have for download at LDraw.org, to have one standard parts downloader for modeler programs, and so programmers don't have to re-invent the wheel. I know this would apply to Windows (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Basically yes. > how about all this (...) I think there still are some details about the license for the parts library which aren't finalised, but Steve knows more about that. (...) That depends on what you mean. The trick of doing it with a (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) no, you don't. do you remember "the voice" and his song: "my way". you just have to find your way. every author has his own. he will tell you that the one which suites him best is the ideal one, but there is no master plan... what counts is (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I am very anxious(sp?) to see this (...) Have you considered SynEdit? You can find it here: (URL) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 21:13:43 GMT, "Willy Tschager" <willy.tschager@tin.it> wrote: I have the following approach I first modelize the part with a commercial 3D Cad tool : Solidworks, then I export the STL file and convert it to dat with STL2DAT. (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Carsten Schmitz" <casz@gmx.de> skrev i meddelandet news:HAxE5J.BAI@lugnet.com... (...) I think it's OK with closed source in a standardized plugin framework. Keeps all the add-ons in plugins instead of different 'forks' of the source. Also less (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) snip (...) WOW. I can't understand how you guys do it. But I get the sneaking suspicion that in order to get what I really want (something that can go seamlessly between .DAT and some commercial 3D CAD package without tons of cleanup) I'm (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi! I am thinking of making LDDP open source. The reason I did not so far is that I am using a commercial component for the highlighting editor part. Still i will try to change it to a component you can find in the Jedi VCL that is open source too. (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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hi steve, (...) ??? ... does it mean it just depends on the modeller? how about all this copyright-stuff tim is talking about? (I still try to figure out the difference between downloading a zip-file with all the parts or the single parts and the (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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hi darrell, (...) I do ALL the modelling in a 5-dollar-cad-prog called "reflections". it supports only trinagles, has an import for dxf (to import converted dats for measurement) and outputs its one file format and a strage povray. therefore I run (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I don't agree :-) As a closed project, it would never get finished (too much for one person) As an open project, it would never get finished (too many different opinions) I think the model of LDDP plugins is the way to go. Standardized (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I too get seasick, but the application of my dreams looks very different from your, because I think I have a very different approach. Currently, I can't think of authoring parts with using for example 1D- and 3D-variables, so I always start (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I use LDesignPad a little but the great thing about using MLCad is that it does all the rotation calculations for me. -Orion (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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[trimmed newsgroup header to just lugnet.cad.dev] (...) I think it would be very cool if editors/renderers would automatically grab parts from the 'net. The files have been available from the website for a couple of years now. Steve (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Most of my part-authoring time is spent in a text editor. Sometimes I use a spreadsheet. :) Frankly, I can't imagine coding parts in MLCAD. Too much clicking in and out of dialogs. Steve (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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OK, you had me going there for a second. I started a thread looking for CAD-DAT file converters and I thought you had one! (...) I'm curious how this works (if it's true). Are you guys modeling in commercial 3D software and then using some level of (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Dear Code-gods, I'd like to thank you for all the little progs and tools you have created throughout the years. Authoring a part today has become much easier than a year ago, but... Guys there's always a "but", I get seasick from jumping from one (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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More commonly, "Hear, hear." In this media, maybe it should be, "Read, read." To more closely match the olde English, maybe, "Lo, lo," which means "Look, look." In whichever form it is stated, however, I must admit to strong agreement with the (...) (22 years ago, 24-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.general)
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(...) -Orion (22 years ago, 23-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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In lugnet.cad, Willy Tschager writes: <Snip> Here, Here! I'm a casual user of the LDraw line, using MLCad to look at different MOCs around the community. But, I'm constantly plagued by "Part Number ... Not Found! Continue Loading?" An auto updater, (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.general)
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This part from year 1999 is unfortunately not availible for LDraw: (URL) the range of windscreen-elements is limited anyway, I feel this could make a useful addition. Shouldn't be overly hard to create for a skilled parts-developer. Any takers? (...) (22 years ago, 23-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Delphi user need help on VB6
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(...) Use a timer control to manage the loading. Set the timer's Interval property to 1000, for one second. Make a module-level variable in the form to keep track of which image you've loaded. In the timer's event subroutine, load the next image (...) (22 years ago, 22-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | [Parts Tracker] email address needed: Ildefonso Zanette
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Ildefonso Zanette, Email being sent from the Parts Tracker to your address-of-record is bouncing. Can you send an updated address to parts@ldraw.org? Thanks! Steve Bliss (22 years ago, 22-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi Willy - (...) Yes, getting started can be difficult for some new users. We've tried to put up clear instructions, but some still struggle with that. There should be a solution - but there's other issues at play too. See below. (...) This is a (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.general)
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hi folks, after ages I've got a new computer (waiting three days 'til my radiocity got rendered has become unbearable ;-) and reinstalled all my favourite lego-cad-progs. as usual it was a painstaking process: unzip the original ldraw-package, the (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.general)
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| | Delphi user need help on VB6
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I never like Visual basic's dll but now I do since i found it so easy and cool as delphi. Can some help me on Visual basic 6? please contact me at msn: quad95@msn.com icq: 126397322 I need to know how to make an animation but like this load image1 (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Proposal: New Part Numbering System
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(...) ...snip. Well I consider a common parts numbering system to be totally nessesary. I have spent the last 4 months counting and cataloging my collection. For the most part I have used LDraw number because that was what I had first. I have to (...) (22 years ago, 14-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: Proposal: New Part Numbering System
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(...) The question has been asked before, I believe it will be asked again. The general reason that a corporation would not cooperate in a situation like is that it would cost them money (ie, they'd have to pay people to spend their time dealing (...) (22 years ago, 14-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: Proposal: New Part Numbering System
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(...) I agree. Ask the question first, explain the benefit to the community, and hope for the answer we are looking for. It would seem to me that if the information is available on larger parts for public consumption, surely they would not maintain (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: LPub 2.1.0.6 Available
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(...) I have a small problem with LPub: I tried to modify background color of generated images (to match my site colors), this works fine for construction steps images, but part list and bom images keep on using a white background. And a little (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub 2.1.0.6 Available
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(...) I have a small problem with LPub: I tried to modify background color of generated images (to match my site colors), this works fine for construction steps images, but part list and bom images keep on using a white background. And a little (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Proposal: New Part Numbering System
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(...) I asked italy@lego.com for the index number on the sticker sheet in 6970 after I hadn't got reply on this post: (URL) was told (in a very friendly way) that all information regarding discontinued sets has been destroid. (...) billund calling (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: LPub 2.1.0.6 Available
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Hi Richard, Thanks for the nice note. It is always nice to be appreciated. Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Proposal: New Part Numbering System
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes: Hi Steve I applaud the efforts you, Dan and Jennifer are putting forward to making this work. This might seem like a silly question - but has anyone asked LEGO for the missing part numbers. As LEGO molds the (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: LPub 2.1.0.6 Available
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Kevin, I just wanted to say WOW! This program just gets better and better. I don't know what you have done to this build of LPub, but it's the first build that I have been able to use straight away without first having to negotiate around mini bugs (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Proposal: New Part Numbering System
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Steve Bliss wrote in message ... (...) It's my understanding that Bricklink has been hoping for part number synchronization for a while - there has been a good deal of discussion of it recently and they seem to have given up on the possibility. (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: Proposal: New Part Numbering System
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Yay! Best regards, /Tobbe (URL) SPAM when e-mailing) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Proposal: New Part Numbering System
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Hi! I've been talking with Dan and Jennifer Boger tonight, trying to figure out how we can improve the synchroni[s|z]ation between LDraw and Peeron part numbers. And anyone else's part system that wants to play with us, too. :) Basically, there are (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.db.brictionary) !!
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| | Re: ldglite, new glut, and l3p (and lsynth)
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(...) Hey, now that you're back in the loop, maybe you could spend a few minutes and see if the lsynth stuff works on the mac. Look here for the scoop on an executable for OSX. (URL) addition, you'll probably need the lsynth parts, the example, and (...) (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Dimensions needed for part 4424
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Steve Bliss <steve.bliss@earthlink.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:ahje4vogvvjdhdi...4ax.com... (...) Now it is. Thanks again Bernd (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Dimensions needed for part 4424
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(...) Things are only a little backlogged on the PT. :\ Just to be clear -- when I posted my earlier message, I wasn't questioning the accuracy of the part. But I wasn't comfortable putting a dimension on the title based on fiddling around with the (...) (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Unnoficial Parts (Tiles with Edge)
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(...) I think that was always the intention. The "~Moved to" and 30xxa.dat files are now on the Parts Tracker. (URL) (22 years ago, 8-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Unnoficial Parts (Tiles with Edge)
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(...) <stuff about grooved/grooveless Tile 1 x 4> (...) Where "part" relates to geometry, ignoring pattern. <snip stuff that was done to fix Tile 1 x 4...but 2431b is still on the official list?> (...) It would still be nice to have 3070, 3069, and (...) (22 years ago, 7-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Random bricks
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Hmm, make it so? I mean, this (URL) is not realistic. Bricks are inside each other, but I guess that does not matter. Another thought... boy, I am thinking today :-) Using a similar tool, could you make a heap or pile of bricks? That would be nice (...) (22 years ago, 7-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Random bricks
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(...) Not at all. It doesn't become difficult until you want it to look realistic. Play well, Jacob (22 years ago, 7-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Random bricks
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Hi all, I just had a thought. Would it be possible to make a little tool that generates an LDraw file with random placed bricks? I mean like this: (URL) can imagine it was a pain to place and rotate all these bits and parts? Also this: (URL) in the (...) (22 years ago, 7-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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