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| (...) [snip] Hey. why not add a new linetype or two to the ldraw format? this would solve both problems simultaneously: platform, and detail. (e.g. now it's the renderer's problem, not ours!) can't you just add: 6 c x y z a b c d e f g h i x' y' z' (...) (24 years ago, 13-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Performance Improvement
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| Steve: (...) I can't see how Rui's suggested change gives any problems at all and I don't mind a few percent speed increase. (...) And? Does the "diameter line" not cross the radius? If there is a significant risk of a misalignment, then we (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | BFC checking program (was Re: Some Words To BFC)
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| (...) I'm assuming that you're calling "BFC-ready" primitives that have all faces in the same direction. Primitives are not closed volumes so you'll always be able to see the backfaces. (...) I agree technically it doesn't make much difference, I (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BFC: LITS 2
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| (...) Actually, the problem is that their determinant is 0, neither positive nor negative. So the renderer would have to disable BFC processing for any file with this kind of reference. Another problem (that L3P handles in most cases) is that (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Some Words To BFC
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| (...) OK, here's a counter-proposal: don't require all parts/primitives to be BFC'able, and allow both BFC-ready and BFC-not-ready files in the same rendering. This reintroduces the concept of having a single meta-statement at the start of each (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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| (...) LDraw code? With a circular shape having 16 segments, not eight as in your diagrams. If you think that is simpler for the parts authors (or that it requires a "tiny extra effort") as compared to superimposing a quad and a disc (two lines of (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Comments on parts up for vote- Pt 1
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| Franklin W. Cain <fwcain@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:FsvF0L.F2I@lugnet.com... (...) No, I mean empty as in no lines of text in the file. This is downloading the individual .dat from the voting page. I can't get the zip file to download, (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | l3lab on linux
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| Well, I wanted to participate in the part voting, so I decided to try and run l3lab on my RH linux, using wine. It did start up, and seems to work - but every time I try to open a file, I get messages "Could not fine xxxx.dat Referenced by ...." the (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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| (...) It's probably a good idea to add the sizing information. (...) There's also a fix in this update to rename the old 'Technic Connector Locking' to 'Technic Toggle Joint Locking'. (...) There is precedence on using the part name to differentiate (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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| (...) Yep. I'd change the rename of the 'Technic Connector Locking' to 'Technic Connector Toggle Locking'. (...) I know what you mean about the angled connectors. I suppose they should be "Technic Connector Angled". I'll think on that some more (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Comments on parts up for vote- Pt 1
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| I made it half way through the parts when MSOE crashed and lost my comments, so I'll do this one in rounds. 6199.dat - Belville Swing: missing edgelines where the uprights meet the crossbar. Since the bars are equal diameter, this can easily be (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Creating vector graphic files
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| Sure, I know. But that is what I use now. What I would like is a tool that can directly export Illustrator format or postscript, for that matter, from LDraw in 3D! Thus my story on MLCad (I hope ML reads this) that is allready printing in vector or (...) (24 years ago, 14-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Syntax error in official part 754.dat?
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| (...) There was a discussion about this awhile ago. Since LDraw will interpret these lines as subfile commands, the lines are syntactically correct. Badly formed, but not invalid. And 754.dat is getting fixed in the 2000-01 update! Steve (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Creating vector graphic files
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| Hi all! I posted this question on the 10th of December 1999 and had no reaction since, but I cannot imagine no one is interested in this... so here I go again, because I think this is one thing we must study! I would do it myself, but since I am no (...) (24 years ago, 14-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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| (...) I think I disagree with you. I've found the Bezier curves to be a good model for how the flexible axles bend in real life. But it is important to have a correct model for the flexible part in the first place. While the notched end parts are (...) (24 years ago, 12-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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