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| (...) Tim, do you want to ask them, as the head honcho of ldraw.org content? Jacob, do you have a copy of James' site-files? I do, if you don't. Oops--I just checked, his site is back online. But maybe it makes sense to have a permanent mirror in (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| (...) I don't think they should. Parts authors are (probably) motivated by their interest for the LDraw format, so I would expect a few to handle the BFC-compliance of their parts. But to demand that everybody do this would probably exclude far to (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) after (...) Steve memory is excelent, he has drawn the complete picture. My brand new computer(1)didn't have Ldraw on it jet, and I've just tested the Ldraw.exe and Complete.exe downloads on it. The 3 primitives BOX4-1.DAT, BOX4-4A.DAT and (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| As you know, The Guild of Bricksmiths, (URL) a big user of LDraw compatible tools, since Guild members are producing instructions for almost all of their kits. From time to time a Guildsman runs into a part he or she would really like to use in a (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev) !
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| I've got a little question. Why are you working so hard on BFC. The rendering in Ldraw, L3lab, MLcad,.... is already very fast. Is the speed improvement gained with BFC supposed to provide the extra time, so you can turn an model in realtime, with a (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| Steve: (...) No. - Or rather: That depends on how good looking a rendering you want. Thinking a bit more about it, I think we can get just as good result _with_ clipping of transparent surfaces as without. Yes, transparent surfaces can be clipped! (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| I've made a new function for LDS called PIPE. It's an extension of the LINE function. Remember:? LINE POINT x y z POINT x y z ... POINT x y z LINE END Now, PIPE works the same way but with that difference it's in 3D: PIPE [n_sectors total_sectors] (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Identifying connections (Was: L3PLiTE?)
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| [ FUT lugnet.cad.dev ] Leonardo: (...) I think it is time to think about identifying connections. What about using an empty piece named "-stud.dat" that should be placed exactly, including orientation, where a "properly" connected stud should be (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:FsEvqJ.1pI@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) designing (...) with (...) done (...) "paid" (...) to (...) pay (...) benefit (...) I see both plusses and minuses to such an arrangement: Plusses: 1. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) Not just 4-4edge - it takes all between 1/16 through 16/16 and 1/48 through 48/48. (...) I see (I think...) If the two arbitrary connected curves run parallelly, I use LDS' EXTRUDE function, if not, I have to make arrangements like this in (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| The reason why I haven't responded to this thread earlier was the complicated language that kept me from fully understanding what the point is. What I now understand about the guild is: * You are fueled by frustration over the juniorisation of (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| I read the current proposal, and I have this to say: I don't agree with the following paragraph when an entire branch has to have cliping on to be able to be culled, don't think so. ( I know about the invert case, solution required ) 4 Control of (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) Oops, I'm responding in public. Oh, well. I think my comments are fodder for the public, anyway. Jonathan Knudsen has already shown that it's possible to get parts drawn on request. I know he got at least three respondents, probably more. And (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) Hmm. That sounds workable. (...) Portable Java would be best... (...) I agree, I just don't see how flexible parts can be coded in LDraw. If you've got some ideas in this direction, I'd love to see them. The lack of flex in LDraw parts is a (...) (24 years ago, 12-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: What is BFC meta command ? [DAT]
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| (...) The best thing to do for now is to make sure that you are writing clean code. The big difference with BFC-able files is there's a sense of 'front' and 'back' for polygons. So you need to make sure that your part files are written to (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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