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(...) Try this: 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 stud.dat 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 4-4edge.dat A little further investigation reveals that LPub quits on error no matter what the color of the edge. The exact error I'm getting is: 'L3P failed for file (...) (21 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub request
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(...) The short answer to your question is yes. Ldraw only looks in the PARTS, P, MODELS, or current folder. Two extension folders have been added to faciltate further separation: the PARTS/S folder is for subparts used by parts in the PARTS folder (...) (21 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Some more LPub errors?
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(...) Example please. (...) Quite possibly. I'll run through all calls to L3P and see what I can come up with. (...) This is a good idea. Jennifer Clark first suggested this for pneumatic hoses. My first throught is to have a special end cap part (...) (21 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub request
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Hi Orion, Why do we need to have the s\ in the DAT file? I'm probably showing my part definition ignorance here. Is it because LDraw does not know to look in s\? I'll fix the bug in LPub either way. Kevin (...) <snip> (21 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDraw File Format Standard Committee Update
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Now the furor over this topic has died down, here the list of people interested in being a member of the Standards Body: Orion Pobursky Kevin Clague Steve Bliss or Chris Dee Larry Pieniazek Ross Crawford Paul Gyugyi Jacob Sparre Andersen We were (...) (21 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Some more LPub errors?
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(...) Some more on this, This idea doesn't have to confine to just color coded dots, it could also encompass lengths for pneumatic hoses as well. Maybe an added parameter to the PLIST BEGIN SUB meta command or an extension to LSynth. -Orion (21 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Some more LPub errors?
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I found two more things that are styming my progress 1. LPub quits on error if a part has a color other than 16 for the X-Xedge.dat primitive. This shouldn't matter since L3P doesn't render edges and colors other than 16 aren't technically illegal (...) (21 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub request [DAT]
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(...) Even with the PLIST command, I still get a part not in PARTS.LST error unless I turn off the file checking. Here the example: 0 Test Axle 0 Name: Taxle.dat 0 Author: Orion Pobursky 0 Unofficial Model 0 PLIST BEGIN SUB 32199.dat 1 7 -30 -110 (...) (21 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub request
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(...) Orion, Please provide me with an example? LPub is coded to support parts\s directory. Kevin (...) (21 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Preview of multi-level callouts complete with pointers
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(...) CUTE!!! and loads of new metas! many thx. w. (21 years ago, 20-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Preview of multi-level callouts complete with pointers
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(...) Thanks Anders! Kevin (...) (21 years ago, 20-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Preview of multi-level callouts complete with pointers
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"Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> skrev i meddelandet news:HDMB7I.1E3L@lugnet.com... (...) It really looks great! I'd better start creating a MOC, so I have something to test LPub on :-) -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (21 years ago, 20-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub request
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Hi Orion, Go to Building Instructions->Controls and uncheck "Check DAT(s) against Part List". Kevin (...) (21 years ago, 20-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub request
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(...) OK, I used the PLIST BEGIN command and I'm still getting the s/faxle1.dat not found in the PARTS.LST file error. I think (but haven't tried) that this problem will exist for any model that uses file from the /S directory. -Orion (21 years ago, 20-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Preview of multi-level callouts complete with pointers [DAT]
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(...) Here is the top level DAT: 0 Untitled 0 Name: l0.ldr 0 Author: MLCad 0 Unofficial Model 0 WRITE LPUB PLI BORDER ROUND 0 1 10 0 WRITE LPUB PLI MARGINS 20 20 0 WRITE LPUB CALLOUT BORDER SQUARE 0 1 0 WRITE LPUB CALLOUT MARGINS 20 20 0 WRITE LPUB (...) (21 years ago, 20-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Preview of multi-level callouts complete with pointers
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I wanted to give you a peek at the progress I've made: (URL) is a three level design, with dual level callout images, complete with pointers to show you where the called out sub-assemblies are added. The PLI shows all the parts added at all three (...) (21 years ago, 20-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub 2.1.0.8 Available
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Anders and Travis, Thanks so much for all the help. I can hardly wait to switch to PNG support. Bitmaps are lossless, but huge, and JPEG is compact but lossy. It will be great to just use the one format. Kevin (...) (21 years ago, 20-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub 2.1.0.8 Available
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(...) I know that Anders already responded to this privately, but I'm posting this in case his response was different. The official PNG library (from the creators of the PNG format) has Borland C++ Builder 5 project files, along with some (...) (21 years ago, 19-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub 2.1.0.8 Available
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"Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> skrev i meddelandet news:HDLAnL.1482@lugnet.com... (...) I sent the one I have found, and used, to your private mail. I use it with Delphi 5, so you shouldn't have too much trouble with C++ Builder 5, which (...) (21 years ago, 19-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LD4DModeler status
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I feel a little bad about the gigantic pause in LD4DModeler's (members.rott.chello...4DModeler) development. But I have picked it up again, currently I am fixing reported bugs and making the whole application ready to go 1.0 But also the long pause (...) (21 years ago, 19-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: LPub 2.1.0.8 Available
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(...) Hi Anders, Yes. I'm using Borland C++ builder 5 and their jpeg unit. (...) Do you know of a Delphi compatible PNG package? I'd *love* to use PNG. Thanks, Kevin (...) (21 years ago, 19-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub 2.1.0.8 Available
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"Jaco van der Molen" <jmolen@zonnet.nl> skrev i meddelandet news:HDJ79v.211H@lugnet.com... (...) Kevin, are you using Delphi? And the jpeg unit from Borland? There is a problem with jpeg pictures in the size range 1-2MB if I remember correctly. I've (...) (21 years ago, 18-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub 2.1.0.8 Available [DAT]
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(...) Hi Jaco, Thanks for the DAT info on the failing behavior. I found and fixed an LPub bug. You can work around this bug by rearranging your DAT. Here is part of what you sent me, starting at the beginning: 0 STEP 0 ROTSTEP -155 135 0 ABS 1 7 0 0 (...) (21 years ago, 18-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub request
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(...) Hi Orion, I recommend that you put a PLIST BEGIN IGN before the s/faxle1 and PLIST END after each s/faxle1. LPub will ignore these parts and not give you an error. Even better, create a stright version of the xale in a seperate dat and use (...) (21 years ago, 18-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LPub request
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I was trying to get a BOM for a model I did and LPub give me a file not found in the Parts.lst eror and quits. The particutlar error was the s/faxle parts used for the flexible axles. Here's my request: If Lpub detects s/faxle1 though s/faxle5, then (...) (21 years ago, 18-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub 2.1.0.8 Available
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(...) Jaco, I need more spefic data than that. If you could quite the error mesage, tell me wheher it was doing construciton images, part list images, callouts or BOMs would help. As always, sending me the dats (and the config.lpb) would help so I (...) (21 years ago, 18-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub 2.1.0.8 Available
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While rendering a model I got a JPEG error and LPub seems to stop. What is that error and what can I do about it? Jaco (21 years ago, 18-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub 2.1.0.8 Available
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(...) It is supposed to. Can you tell me how you are using it? Buffer exchange and rotation steps used to not work correctly. I talked to Michael and got it sorted out. Maybe now you are expecting it to act like it did when it was broken? (...) (...) (21 years ago, 18-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub 2.1.0.8 Available
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It seems that rotation step does not work anymore? (...) levels. This is nice!!! Jaco (21 years ago, 17-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LPub 2.1.0.8 Available
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(...) Thanks Jake. I knew I was forgetting something. Kevin (...) levels. (...) (21 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: LPub 2.1.0.8 Available
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(Cross posting to .inst) (...) (21 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: LPub 2.1.0.8 Available
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(...) This version of LPub does not support nested callouts, but this is in the works. To make nested sub-model callouts work, I will provide new meta-commands that describe the placement of a generated callout relative to the current step image (...) (21 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LPub 2.1.0.8 Available
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LPub 2.1.0.8 is available from (URL) version of LPub adds these new features: - Sub-assembly callout image generation - Unique construction image background colors for up to four sub-model levels. - Proof mode to make Lpub do a dry run through the (...) (21 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Callout generation
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"Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:HDC5Gu.1ux3@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) is (...) get (...) level. (...) seperated (...) I think so, I'd like to play with it. Mike -- Mike Walsh - mike_walsh at (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Callout generation
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(...) For now, I decided to make callout generation a seperate pass of the model. By disabling construction image generation, you can make changes to the callout specifications in your DAT files, Generate -> Instruction Images, and you won't run (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Callout generation
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(...) I recall some one (Dutch too) who started a Postscript project. It was about converting the LDraw format directly to PS. I asked this way back: (URL) (december 10 1999 :-) I got no reply... But then, Guido Heunen replied to another thread: (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Monkeypede
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(...) Ok -- Steve Bliss ICQ'ed me and suggested trying L3Lab's Register File Types option to settle the MIME-types. Win2K doesn't allow you to manually edit the MIME-types through the interface, and I forget how to do it in the registry. So, I try (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Callout generation
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(...) Hi Kevin and Tim, Loads of info and URLs here: (URL) the mentioned book as PDF here: (URL) (21 years ago, 13-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Tim and Kevin, Since I'm a desktop publisher IRL and for longer I can remember I do know something about Postscript and Postscript programming. It is a fairly easy language to learn and understand. Think of it as POV but in 2D. I have a (...) (21 years ago, 13-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Callout generation
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(...) Yes. I'm sure. FYI, I new nothing about LDraw file formats before I wrote LPub either ;^) I'm thinking that the whole page layout (including formatting of callouts, and callouts within callouts), is a whole new layer of concept in LPub (or an (...) (21 years ago, 13-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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