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(...) Hmm. Let me add just a couple of bells and whistles, to make it more usable (and to document-by-example). The db is actually my tool[1] for writing LEGO set inventories. Part-lookup is just one important aspect of this activity. Steve -- 1-For (...) (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: parts DESPERATLY wanted (steve: please read)
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Ahh. Everyone, assume I canceled my reply to jonathan just before this. Well, it will probably show up below this posting in the threaded-view. Hmmm. I don't have the new green roadplates, so I don't know if they are the same as the previous 7-stud (...) (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) :) (...) I have MS-Access if you ever feel like throwing what you have out for general consumption. (...) Yup. (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Star Wars Elements
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(...) This part is probably the one new element in the SW sets that I am most excited about. Well, I think having a bunch of light sabre hilts could be really cool, too. For decorative detail work on large spaceships/SF settings. Thinking about it, (...) (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) These are computers. Anything is possible. All it takes is time and money. It wouldn't be hard to create a utility that would associate any number of names with a single part-number. I've got the beginnings of one already (sorry, it's in (...) (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Studs
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(...) And Moolhuysen answered: (...) Yes. Later we decided to use colour 494 (yellow-yellow mix) for electric contacts. This makes them yellow in instructions and allows L2P and L3P to colour them chrome in POV-Ray. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- (...) (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Don't forget, which I sure no one has, the other opportunities the internet gives us also. The ability to get pieces we need, Imagine everyone having to buy all those extra sets for that one piece you really need to complete a project, Or heaven (...) (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.build)
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-----Original message----- From: Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> To: lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com> Date: maandag 29 maart 1999 22:00 Subject: Re: Complete list of metacommands? (...) Steve answered, (...) Steve, Is it (...) (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: idea on how to make making elements easier
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(...) (URL) Greetingz... Sjaacko (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: parts DESPERATLY wanted (steve: please read)
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-----Original message----- From: jonathan wilson <wilsonj@xoommail.com> To: lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com> Date: dinsdag 30 maart 1999 3:14 Subject: Re: parts DESPERATLY wanted (steve: please read) (...) already (...) You (...) (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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-----Original message----- From: Laurentino Martins <lau@mail.telepac.pt> To: lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com> Date: maandag 29 maart 1999 20:23 Subject: Re: Studs Hello all, Laurentino Martins stated that although LEGO used to (...) (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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jonathan wilson wrote in message ... (...) I've already been down this road, except for the MAX step. You can skip the POV step and export your file as a DXF (does AC3D export 3DS?). What I do (or plan to do) different is I use a program called (...) (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yeah, I think it was an unfortunate choice to use DAT. It is way to common. LDR would have been a better choice. But I just live with it. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Star Wars Elements
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(...) I agree. Naming pieces by their theme use is a bad idea. Usually. And Todd's mention of the "umbrella" is a good one. It, and the the "Umbrella stand" should have been given descriptive names based on their physical characteristics, not there (...) (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | idea on how to make making elements easier
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i have an idea on how to make making elements easier that is free. what you need: max2dat ac3d (forget url) crossroads (folow link on ac3d page) what you do. make the element in ac3d. export it to a pov file. convert it to a 3d studio file with (...) (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: parts DESPERATLY wanted (steve: please read)
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steve, i have a small suggestion for your roadplates... how about making the flat surface hard coded color #7... (if you have already done that then disregard this post) so that if you make them green, say, they show up properly. i did this for the (...) (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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now that the head has been fixed is anyone planing to finish ldrawing the robot (points finger at chris dee) by making the robot head? (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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check out my page at (URL) contains .dat files of every ice planet 2002 set (only thing missing is the minifigs and decorated elements), .dat files of some castle MOCS including warwick castle, a large MOC castle, the intercity and metropoitin (...) (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: parts DESPERATLY wanted (steve: please read)
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any chance i can please have this program? (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Star Wars Elements
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(...) Even better. Is it possible for one or more of the utilities to be able to associate 2 or more descriptive names with any given part? (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I guess that takes care of the percentage of people who want to use the two parts in this fairly limited SW way. But what about the other people who never really cared about the SW "use" of the elements - should they be forced to remember that (...) (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Umm, *anything* is allowed at the moment, since these meta-statements aren't used anywhere. But I'd suggest new parts should use the first word of their descriptive name as the first entry for 0 CATEGORY. Or at least that the category entry (...) (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I think it's highly unlikely that this new element won't show up in other places completely unrelated to SW and light sabres, and it probably will even show up in opaque colors. IMHO, calling this element a light sabre blade is like calling (...) (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Yeah, basically me 2. I think I still have some images around with black-sided studs. I didn't remember about the transparent pieces. Steve (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Or improve one or more pieces of software to keep track of pieces like this. Steve (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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What is LDS (sorry if I am being obtuse)? Also what is the exact behavior of INCLUDE? I assume the line will look like: 0 INCLUDE /include/file/path And if I remember correctly all the parts in the file are loaded into memory for use but not drawn. (...) (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi :-) I thought a bit about all this stud talk and reached a conclusion: is not worth the effort. I mean, nobody includes a touch sensor in it's model, in this case a transparent touch sensor, if does not intend to use it. And if you want to use (...) (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I tried that already, and it looks kind of strange, especially for transparent parts. For some reason, it just doesn't seem to look like the real instructions (IMO). Maybe I'm just too used to the default LDraw look...especially because the (...) (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Maybe this is one place where using a short-cut file would make sense. WE could place the actual file (XXXX.DAT) in the Bar category, and then name the SW version (which would just call the Bar file) XXXXA.DAT. --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ (...) (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I guess I'm not a a standard user. :-) To me the objective should be to accurately represent the real world, not to copy the LEGO instructions. (...) My point of view also disagrees here. Studs of real transparent parts are hollow, at least in (...) (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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-----Original message----- From: Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> To: lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com> Date: maandag 29 maart 1999 16:55 Subject: Re: Complete list of metacommands? (...) Steve, could you supply us with a (...) (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Is anyone else bugged by the DAT extension? Does anyone else use other extensions for various flavors of (near-)LDraw source files? I stick with DAT for vanilla LDraw files. For other files files, I've been using: LDL - LDLite extensions (especially (...) (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) the (...) At least "Star Wars people" would not have to go looking for it. Someone using the part who is unfamiliar with Star Wars sets might never think to look for it there. That's the basic problem with theme-based nomenclature. It makes (...) (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) blade (...) to (...) I would disagree with you here, Steve, and agree with Jonathan on this one. For this purpose it should be next to the hilt so people don't have to go searching for it. Keep Building!! -Tim <>< (URL) timcourtne ICQ: (...) (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) These two comment meta-commands are not currently recognized by any programs, AFAIK. They are both part-file meta-commands, intended for use by part-search and part-catalog programs. CATEGORY specifies the part's category. I think all the (...) (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) No, it should be called 'Bar 4L'. That is the best description of what the piece *is*, rather than what it is currently being used *for*. Steve (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: A solution to the part numbering problem? (Was: vote 9902)
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We really need to have a program with a configurable INCLUDE path. So we can add to the default of: %ldraw%\p;%ldraw%\pa...;%current% Then we could go nuts with subdirectories. Well, sort of. Steve (...) (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: parts DESPERATLY wanted (steve: please read)
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(...) These parts won't be much use for a study, because I wrote a utility program to generate higher-resolution curve/ring sections. Steve (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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