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Lester, I would like to include that into MLCad. Adding as a meta command for MLCad I could support this. All I would need is some sort of library I can use. Best way would be a dll, which generates that - or if you do not mind already the source (...) (20 years ago, 6-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Color Defining Systems Summary?
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(...) The LSC is almost done with the !COLOR meta-statement that should satisfy your need once L3P and MLCad support it. You can read the current draft here: (URL) (20 years ago, 4-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Color Defining Systems Summary?
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I think that there are a number of different systems for defining new or custom colors in the large number of LCad programs, right? Most of them are considerate towards original LDraw and other tools that are not supporting that system. But I think (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Baseplate generator program
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(...) I think that it's a good idea. There is a built-in part genereator in SimLego too, but the parts it generates are far from today's LCad standards, and the SimLego source code is forever lost. A third way to go would be to write an LDraw Script (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Baseplate generator program
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(...) Wow, I can't speak for everyone, but I'd love to get my hands on that. Could be a real good program, simple way to generate the kind of baseplates you need. You never know, you could turn that little program into a real nice little parts (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ideas for next MOTM contest
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(...) (I hope you see this reply. Since it no longer has anything to do with ldraw.org, I moved it to the general dev group.) I'm guessing you mean moving out the near clip plane. This can indeed help a whole lot. I actually set the near and far (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ideas for next MOTM contest
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(...) Oh, whoops. I had forgotten that you'd implemented the mirroring. My bad. --Travis (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Baseplate generator program
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I am developing a building in MLCAD (which I have built). I intend to including an interior and may use cut (Gasp!!) baseplates for floors. Since the parts library did not include non-standard baseplates (like 22x12) I wrote a small program that (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw Part Request - Goblet Fill
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Mark Chittenden wrote: --snip-- (...) Ahh, that's perfect! Just what I needed, thanks. :) Nothing too detailed and overdone, just makes it look like people aren't drinking from empty glasses. :) Thanks a ton for helping. If (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw Part Request - Goblet Fill
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(...) Whipped up a simple "filler" piece for the goblet. Fills the goblet to 3/4's full. Works best as a solid color in a translucent goblet. Here's a pic, the part will be available via my Brickshelf folder when it passes moderation. The goblet on (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | LDraw Part Request - Goblet Fill
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I was hoping someone could help me out with this. I'd do it myself, except I don't have the skills yet. I'm looking for something to fill the castle goblet. It needs to look right for a drink inside the goblet (this means maybe even not up to the (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Question about Java3D
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(...) Orion, There is a Java3D developer installer for Mac OS X, so it isn't available to the public yet. My guess is that it will be in Mac OS X 10.4, which hasn't really been announced yet, other than the announcement that it will be demoed at the (...) (20 years ago, 13-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Question about Java3D
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(...) Thanks for the insight Kyle. Here's my next question... I'm not looking to buy a Java IDE (I've already purchased Delphi and Visual Studio in the last year) so I went looking for a good, free IDE. I've found 2 that seem to be in wide use: (...) (20 years ago, 13-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Question about Java3D
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(...) Oh I should add, that while I haven't run my program on MacOS X, I have run the exact same code on Solaris, Linux, and Windows, and It was really impressive how it just worked. I didn't even have to recompile. :) -Kyle (20 years ago, 13-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Question about Java3D
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(...) Hi Orion. I've been lurking here awhile and I've seen the stuff you've done for LDraw. I'm glad I can finally answer a question or two. While I do work for Sun, I don't work in the group that does Java3D, however I do know some of the (...) (20 years ago, 13-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Question about Java3D
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(...) I'm going to try to learn Java3D regardless of portability if for no other reason than to do something new. I already have a fair working knowledge of OpenGL, I'm trying to expand my horizons. This is why I asked if there was anyone who has (...) (20 years ago, 13-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Question about Java3D
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(...) Read this. (URL) you want to consider using OpenGL instead since many implementations of java 3D are built on top of OpenGL. You can take any new OpenGL skills you learn with you to other languages. Don (20 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Question about Java3D
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I'm considering learning Java and the Java3D API. The only official distros for Java3D I can find are for Windows and Solaris. My question is does anyone know how portable the Java3D extension is? Dos anyone have any experience with Java3D in a (...) (20 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lsynth thoughts.
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(...) Yes, the hose color is specified in the LSYTH BEGIN line. I like the new constraint. I'm in favor of it replacing the original LS00.DAT. (...) Kevin (20 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lsynth thoughts.
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(...) Oh yeah, before I forget. I hardcoded the transparent white just to illustrate the axis and the bullseye inside the part. I really think it should be coded in color 16. Then when used, it should be inserted with any transparent color. That way (...) (20 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Patterns, simplified
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(...) I'm inferring that you are talking about converting a scanned image into a pattered subfile for a part? Then, optimally, the process requires the following discrete phases: 1) Someone[1] scans a patterned part at high resolution into an agreed (...) (20 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Patterns suck!
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(...) I'm gonna have to look into this again. Vectorizers are cool. Here's some more opensource code (3 URLs) a really nifty description of how to use the potrace vectorizer to generate edges, and the netlib triangulator to create the triangles. (...) (20 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Patterns suck!
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(...) Or you could search the net for vectorizer programs like this one. (URL) a free vectorizer with source code. (URL) wonder how hard it would be to modify it to handle color and output ldraw format. Enjoy, Don (20 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lsynth thoughts.
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"Don Heyse" <dheyse@hotmail.spam....away.com> wrote in message news:Hx5nw4.JoA@lugnet.com... (...) Looks good. Jennifer (20 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lsynth thoughts. [DAT]
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(...) I envision something more like this. 0 ~LSYNTH constraint part 0 Name: lz00.dat 0 Author: John VanZwieten, Steve Bliss, Kevin Clague, Paul Easter, Don Heyse 0 Unofficial LCad Part 0 CATEGORY Hose 0 1999-05-02 KevinB Added nipple (taken from (...) (20 years ago, 3-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lsynth thoughts. [DAT]
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(...) I've only looked at the hoses so far. So I don't even know what the current algorithm for rubber bands looks like, much less how to improve it. (...) True, for my first cut at the fixed length length rubber hoses I calculated the total spline (...) (20 years ago, 28-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lsynth thoughts.
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(...) Yes, then lsynthcp can focus on the synthesis algorithms like spline, and belts. I'd love to have an algorithm for non-planar rubber bands. (...) Don, the splining algorithm gives us *no* control over the distance between the resulting spline (...) (20 years ago, 28-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Lsynth thoughts.
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(...) Please do. I got to tinkering over the weekend and added some code to generate the fixed length 50 segment 751.DAT style rubber hoses. (URL) also tinkered with simulating 208c01.DAT fixed length chain links as a hose. I think it might work (...) (20 years ago, 27-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | New Tutorial: How to make thumbnails for your inventory using a batch file for LDView
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hi folks, do you fancy thumbnails for your inventory or do you feel that the parts list of your model also deserves images of the single parts? (URL) one of the ways to render effortlessly a bunch of identical part images is batch-filing LDview. (...) (20 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX) !
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| | Re: [Parts Tracker] More name changes for Dishes
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List of parts affected by this latest dish-renaming. (URL) 30209.dat Bracket 1 x 2 - Dish 4 x 4 ((URL) PT Page>) (URL) 2654.dat Dish 2 x 2 ((URL) PT Page>) (URL) 4740.dat Dish 2 x 2 Inverted ((URL) PT Page>) (URL) x902.dat Dish 2 x 2 x 2/3 Hollow (...) (20 years ago, 19-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | [Parts Tracker] More name changes for Dishes
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[I'll follow-up this message with an FTX-formatted reference] Here's some material for your Monday morning spit-take... The following part files (mix of official and unofficial): 30209.dat Plate 1 x 2 with 4 x 4 Disc at 90 Degrees 2654.dat Boat 2 x (...) (20 years ago, 19-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 4.5V Semaphore Signal
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(...) Well, that approach won't work, then. :/ Steve (20 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LPub updates
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Hi, A long overdue fix for Bill of Materials images is working. Jake I'm really sorry that this took so long to fix, especially in light of the grief you got for *not* having BOM images in your book. I've also modified LPub to use subdirectories for (...) (20 years ago, 12-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lpub find edges
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(...) Well, I did some tests walking the tree and printing out all line type 2 as cylinders, but I didn't think it looked to well. Mostly because at some edges you only see 1/4 of the cylinder, and at other edges you see 3/4 of the cylinder. L3P (...) (20 years ago, 12-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Clikit file naming
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(...) only have one "c" :) ROSCO (20 years ago, 11-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Clikit file naming
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(...) Hmm ... I looked at that Peeron list, and it seems all the small Clikits bits are called 'icons.' Strange, but I've seen stranger [1]. When I look at the above three, I think female adapter, male adapter, and backing - cause those are the (...) (20 years ago, 11-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: Using LDGLite inside LDDP
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(...) I'm pretty sure there are lots of programs distributed with a bunch of standard plugins. Maybe you should consider distributing several standard plugins with LDDPinstall.exe, or perhaps make a plugin bundle with everything, or is that what the (...) (20 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Using LDGLite inside LDDP
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(...) You make some good points. I'll consider splitting it back out. -Orion -- We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing -George Bernard Shaw (20 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Using LDGLite inside LDDP
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(...) But wait! I'm not quite sure I understand. What's the advantage of incorporating the bendible object generator code into LDDP instead of developing it independently as a plugin? As a plugin, you could update it without having to rerelease a (...) (20 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Using LDGLite inside LDDP
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(...) I think I understand... So, the earlier version of LDDP (which utilized the bendible objects creator plug-in) generated a preview because the plug-in polled LDGLite (or vice versa), correct? That would be a handy feature in a future version of (...) (20 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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