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| Hi. Perhaps your pathname to the LDRAW files or to your model files contains a space or some other unfriendly character. Try everything with the path C:\LDRAW or similar, and see if that works. -gyug (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ldglite (ldlite for OpenGL and Linux) new stuff
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| Paul: (...) Yes (what a mess). As a mathematician and physicist I prefer right-hand rectangular coordinate systems with the first two coordinates (x and y) in the plane and the last coordinate (z) having the positive direction up. The units should (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LdLite 1.6.1 (maybe)
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| I just put a patched ldlite on my site. The repackaged binary is at (URL) the source is at (URL) someone confirms that these actually work then I'll add them to the main ldglite page there. This version should work with paths with space characters (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L-Draw - Future is the Net?
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| People who find it slow could download a distribution to a local directory. LDRAW tools should have a search path that the user can edit, so local directories could be looked at first. Good point about testing. Mounting a drive (using whatever (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L-Draw - Future is the Net?
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| (...) Wouldn't this be really really slow while before the web cache fills up? I suppose you could test the speed without a rewrite by samba sharing an LDRAW directory across the internet and then setting your ldrawdir path to something like (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Help with LDLite
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| Hello, I've just installed LDLite. Everything seems to be OK, I can lauch it. But after openning a DAT file, nothing appears on the screen. I've tried to change the LDraw specified folder, but it doesn't work. (Ldraw and Ledit work fine...) Could (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Making Ldraw Parts
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| (...) Andrew, An LDraw parts creation tutorial is coming soon to ldraw.org. Its now in the revision process and should appear within a week or so. In the mean time, I reccommend asking a regular part author for some tips to get you started. -Tim (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: ldglite (ldlite for OpenGL and Linux) new stuff
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| Paul: [ Tells us that we are behaving a little bit silly. ] You are probably right, but... I think that the main problem is that practically none of us are experienced CAD developers or users. Some of Paul's points: - Different coordinate systems I (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ldglite (ldlite for OpenGL and Linux) new stuff
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| (...) And earlier programs. BriCAD, L3G0, Ben's (?) POV library, VBLOCKs (an SGI GL program) and I think LegoPS (postscript) used different coordinates & units. Or at least they were all different from L3G0. (...) L3G0 call a brick a "b2x4"; BriCAD (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ldglite (ldlite for OpenGL and Linux) new stuff
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| (...) I get: glut.dll C:\Apps\ldraw\ldglite 154624 bytes Dec/11/1997 glut32.dll C:\Apps\ldraw\ldglite 154624 bytes Dec/11/1997 GLU32.DLL E:\WIN98\SYSTEM 140224 bytes May/11/1998 OPENGL32.DLL E:\WIN98\SYSTEM 753808 bytes May/11/1998 So it looks like (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L-Draw - Future is the Net?
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| In LDLite on MS Windows, the .dat files are searched for for by trying to do an "OpenFile" in several directories. It would be very easy to replace the "OpenFile" with a call that gets a file via ftp or html. I dreamed of adding an attempt to get a (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ldglite (ldlite for OpenGL and Linux) new stuff
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| (...) A feature I already started adding to ldglite is to take ldraw commands from stdin if no filename is present on the commandline. I think this lends itself better to external control than polling a file. This is of course based on my completely (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ldglite (ldlite for OpenGL and Linux) new stuff
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| (...) Take a look at my previous post, LeoCAD is GPL. I know it doesn't look like LDraw but you can still run "leocad foo.dat" and it will render the file or "leocad foo.dat -i foo.gif" and it will save a GIF file (JPG, PNG and BMP also supported). (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Plz help! - type "5" line in LDraw [DAT]
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| (...) It sounds like you've got the basic idea of the conditional line command. Like Jacob said, use either the points related to point 1 or point 2. In your example, write either: 5 24 0 0 1 0 1 2 -0.3827 0 0.9239 0.3827 0 0.9239 or 5 24 0 0 1 0 1 (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ldglite (ldlite for OpenGL and Linux) new stuff
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| (...) Yes, I totally agree with you. I think that once you bother to learn the LEdit keycodes, it is much quicker to use than a "point and click" CAD system. I think that any new LDraw-based CAD system should also imlement the LEdit kecodes for the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ldglite (ldlite for OpenGL and Linux) new stuff
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| (...) What about the parts libraries used by the Ray tracing folks? Or is a totally new format in order? Either way I think the right thing to do is start with some utilities that convert the LDRAW formatted parts to whatever form we want to use. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Suggestion for MLCad Plug-Ins
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| (...) I like that idea. (...) Yep. The idea is for LDAO to be both a source and sink for dragged parts. (...) Two approaches: 1. Allow multiple formats for the string being passed in the WM_COPYDATA message. One format is the one you're already (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ldglite (ldlite for OpenGL and Linux) new stuff
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| (...) Yes! Yes! Yes! Although not surprising coming from another EMACS user. It's amazing how hard it is to convince people that you can get things done so much faster if your fingers never leave the keyboard. Unfortunately it requires training to (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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