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(...) Sort of yes and no. Pocket PCs usually run 320x240 (or 640x480 on the high end ones) in 16 colors/pixel, not the fixed color palettes of the old CGA/EGA days. I've ported my work version of SVG to a Pocket PC and there's no particular problem, (...) (20 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I seem to remember James Jessiman used to run LDraw/LEdit on his old laptop. Or at least, he intended them to runnable on such a system. Wouldn't a CGA/EGA laptop be morally equivalent to a Pocket PC? Of course, what's the chance that (...) (20 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi all, Any chance to bring this topic back to attention? Would it be possible to make an LDraw VIEWER for Pocket PC (Windows Mobile, CE or other portable systems). You could indeed put the parts on a memory card and view any LDraw model (as long as (...) (20 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It's on my list. Thanks for the nudge. -Orion (20 years ago, 21-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) :-) I just went online to suggest that you shot down the computer and went to bed: It usually helps when the programs begins to behave funny... But I guess that advice only work here in Europe right now, as you obviously don't need sleep to (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I found the problem: I'm an idiot. I was looking at the wrong line. -Orion (20 years ago, 21-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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L3P is giving me a warning that the following line is not coplanar (0.23184): 4 16 11.89 24 -4.32 11.89 20 -4.32 14.27 20 2.83 14.27 24 2.83 This quad is obviously coplanar. Any advice? -Orion (20 years ago, 21-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LEGOfactory.com launches... and it's big!
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(...) Actually, that could be a good thing. Each pallet *.lxf file is just an archive containing BRICK*.CHUNK part files. (The model *.lxf files are archives each containing a MODEL100.MODEL file.) If a converter is ever programmed, it could make (...) (20 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Marc (or anyone!) ... I have another technical question regarding these "brick palletes". I've finally managed to get LDD to run ... after about 9 hours of installing service packs and drivers. Regardless, I was able to use it (relatively) (...) (20 years ago, 14-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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LDraw Design Pad (LDDP) is a tool for editing and handling LDraw files in a very comfortable way. The new version can be downloaded here: (URL) Features are: -Fully customizable editor with syntax highlighting -Open multiple files at the same time (...) (20 years ago, 14-Nov-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev) !
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(...) I have tried both. Latest drivers and deleting the specified folder. It seems to hang everyother time. On the alternating runs whne it does not hang on the startup screen it will not show the parts. I have an ATI radeon 7500 AIW. (20 years ago, 12-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Went to IBM and downloaded the latest driver for my laptop's video card (Mobility Radeon 7500). Unfortunately, things seem to have only gotten worse. :( The first couple of times after updating the driver the app *seemed* to work a bit better. (...) (20 years ago, 12-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: ptreleases.cgi - Ready to Roll?
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(...) Yep, that fixed it. Thanks a lot. --Travis (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Thanks for fixing this, Dan. Steve (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I will check the driver tonight after work. Are there also known issues with laptop keyboards? My cursor keys have no effect on the selected bricks. Thanks! Allan (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Hi Allan, This is a fairly common problem, it is almost always caused by your video card drivers being out of date. You should install the latest ones from your manufacturer's website. If you have an nvidia or ati card you can use their (...) (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: ptreleases.cgi - Ready to Roll?
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(...) Oops. Try now? (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That fixed ptreleasesnew.cgi (the test script), but not ptreleases.cgi (the production script). --Travis (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Try now - Steve was rearranging some files, and forgot to update a subroutine call. (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) It would appear that neither script is working now. --Travis (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LEGOfactory.com launches... and it's big!
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(...) It's coming. Patience ... :-) -Tim (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) How about an LDraw file to LDD file convertor? Or is that what you meant...one that would translate both ways? :) Has anyone tried using this application? Am I the only one finding it to be a steep learning curve? (...) I'd be happy just to (...) (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Say (conservatively) these are placed in 1,000 retail outlets worldwide (include S@H as one) Each sells 5 sets per week. Since these are micro, with a small piece count around 100-150, estimate price at about $10 Designer earns 5% of each (...) (20 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(...) LPRIZE, anyone? :) As far as my students, it'll probably be a case of them designing in whatever package they want (even, gasp, REAL LEGO) and then one or two of them figuring out how to make the design over again in LDD for contest upload. I (...) (20 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) AFAIK, no one yas yet tried to write a LDD file to LDraw file convertor. This might be the thing though, eh? Of course it would be entirely unofficial until and unless LEGO blessed such an effort. One big gotcha is catching that all the (...) (20 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Interoperability: Conversion from LDRAW to ProE or Inventor 7
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(...) What 3D file format(s) does ProE or Inventor support? -Orion (20 years ago, 5-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Greetings! We are trying to build a trophy part. We will build it using rapid prototyping. To do this we have designed a trophy in ProE (and in Inventor 7). We want a 1x2 brick with a flat plate on top of the brick and the trophy on top of the (...) (20 years ago, 5-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I cool with that. It's a whole lot easier for me to make ldglite behave well as a unseen simple renderer, and let LPub handle all the tricky instruction formating macros. The only reason I can see for me to add internal ldglite support for all (...) (20 years ago, 3-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) time I invoke ldglite and it finishes. This non-interactive render ignores all steps. I'm sure LPub has handled and removed all the CLEAR statements in the process of creating a step DAT. In this scenario, I see no need to use the -D. (...) (...) (20 years ago, 3-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'm a bit lost here. Are you talking about using ldglite to render image files, or render interactively? I ask because -mf and -mF ignore all STEP commands, but only for the non-interactive image file generating usage. There is a -D command (...) (20 years ago, 3-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Don Heyse wrote: <snip> (...) Thanks Don, I got it working for both assembly images and part images. Kevin (20 years ago, 1-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Oh all right. You forced me to figure out what's up with the sourceforge. Apparently they disabled the cronjobs back in july, so my daily snapshot has to be made manually. I guess I'll have to start calling it more of an occasional snapshot. (...) (20 years ago, 30-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi Don, How are the updates going to ldglite? I'd like to test it with LPub before I release a new version. I've got it all wired in for construction images and PLI and it seems to work well. I'd love to have -mf and -mF soon. Kevin (20 years ago, 29-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Thanks, Ross. On the Parts Tracker, I've moved x849.dat to 3652.dat. Steve (20 years ago, 29-Oct-04, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Not yet. The current release always picks -4/3*x for the aspect ratio. I know the negative sign is required to convert the y axis from ldraw coords to POV. I'm not sure how that gets worked into the upcoming version of l3p, which does have a (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) The 4/3 is the aspect ratio of the POV generated rendering (matches 800x600, 1024x768, 1600x1200 etc.). If you for some reason want POV to do a high, narrow (or low, long), rendering this factor has to be changed. It's often easier to do a (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I assume that L3P allows the output to be any aspect ratio. The page is a little confusing that way. However, it's trying to tell you how the camera angle argument works, going on the assumption you haven't changed the aspect ratio. Just (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) aspect ratio is always maintained even if the (horizontal) viewing angle is changed"? Does l3p not allow tall skinny windows? Should (width/height) always be (4/3) even if the window is tall and skinny? Or does it just mean the pov file will (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I thank you for the complement, but in this particular instance, I have to give credit where credit it is due. I'm sure I could have derived the above equation on my own, but here is the actual comment out of LDView that I got the above from: (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) See, this is why ldview is so much better. I'm still trying to absorb the first post and you whip out the math. Ok, apparently I knew about the horizontal/vertical bit at one point because the code to print an l3p command line contains this (...) (20 years ago, 26-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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