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Hey Allen, Great news! I look forward to giving this version a try. Before Bricksmith I always used to feel slightly under serviced by my Mac ; ) God Bless, Nathan (URL) (17 years ago, 27-Jan-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Bricksmith 2.1: A Step Up
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(2 URLs) Bricksmith 2.1> adds the following features: Step rotations (MLCad ROTSTEPs) Streamlined Step Display UI Moved file outline to the main window Improved line appearance Toolbar buttons for Part Browser, Inspector, and Colors It also fixes (...) (17 years ago, 21-Jan-09, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX) !
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| | Re: Still no zip file for 2008-01?
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(...) snip (...) This is caused by the files: p/box3#8p.dat parts/s/swh2.dat parts/s/swh3.dat ...all of which are empty files in 2008-1. The next version of Bricksmith will not choke on such malformed files; in the meantime, don't use those files (...) (17 years ago, 7-Jan-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Still no zip file for 2008-01?
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(...) That seems better than what I get. I had the loading parts window never go away, and when I exited and restarted Bricksmith, it just shows that window for a little bit and then crashes. This is what I see in the console log: 2009-01-01 (...) (17 years ago, 2-Jan-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Still no zip file for 2008-01?
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(...) Is there something special that needs to be done with the above zip file after extracting to get Bricksmith to recognize the parts in it? No parts appeared in the parts selector when I had the preferences set to look at the ldraw folder (...) (17 years ago, 1-Jan-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Still no zip file for 2008-01?
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(...) Since some popular LDraw programs are available for the Mac these days - LDView, LPub, L3Lab, and of course Bricksmith - I think it's only reasonable to provide parts updates in a format readily accessible to Mac users. Happily, the (URL) (...) (17 years ago, 31-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: *** LDView Version 4.0 Beta 1 Released ***
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(...) I second that. I've been using it for all my latest renders and it's eliminated almost all hand-editing of POVray files. Top stuff! Tim (17 years ago, 7-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: *** LDView Version 4.0 Beta 1 Released ***
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(...) ... (...) This is a big update. I heartily recommend you give it a try, especially if you are working with LPub or using a Mac (or both). Travis has made some great additions to the program. Jim (17 years ago, 2-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub Rotation Step angle woes
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(...) I'll be putting ROTSTEP to use properly now, too. Thanks. (...) LDView 4 is awesome. From my perspective, recent versions of LDView, LPub, and Bricksmith form a Macintosh LDraw Power Triad. Jim (17 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub Rotation Step angle woes
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(...) I know. I used the form I did to confirm that the default viewing angle was mathematically messed up (and for dramatic emphasis). (...) I've got them, now it's time to test them. (...) Yes, actually, it was LDView that was confused. Travis' (...) (17 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub Rotation Step angle woes
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(...) And you were right! The new version of LDView works. LDView 3.2 does not. Thanks very much for your help! Allen (17 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub Rotation Step angle woes
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(...) Well, Allen said that the LDView 4 test build fixed the problem. At a guess, LPub using -cg on the command line (to set the camera angle to 0 so that all the rotation can be in the model itself?) and the QT version isn't handling that like it (...) (17 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub Rotation Step angle woes
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(...) Please note that instead of "0 ROTSTEP 0 0 0 REL", the preferred meta command is "0 ROTSTEP END". (...) There are 4 kinds of ROTSTEPS: REL, ABS, ADD, END For REL, you add the angles from the ROTSTEP meta to the default viewing angle to get the (...) (17 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub Rotation Step angle woes
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(...) The more I think about it, the more I suspect that LDView 3.2 on the Mac is to blame. I sent Allen an email with a link to an LDView 4 test build. --Travis (17 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub Rotation Step angle woes
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(...) snip (...) Alas. That is what I'm supposed to see, not what I actually do see. Something is convinced that the 0,0,0 rotation is actually equal to the default 3D angle, which causes requests for the real default 3D angle to be over-rotated. (...) (17 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub Rotation Step angle woes
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(...) Hi, Allen. Here's what I see when I open your example in LPub 4.0.0.1: (2 URLs) I'm not sure why the difference, but I'll list some possible factors. Side effects of other LPub options, e.g. to hide PLI LDView version (I use a "4.0 Pre-Alpha" (...) (17 years ago, 3-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | LPub Rotation Step angle woes
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I'm working on rotation steps, and I'm not seeing LPub do what I expect it to do. I have the following file: 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3865.dat 0 ROTSTEP 0 0 0 ABS 1 4 -150 -24 70 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3005.dat 0 ROTSTEP 0 0 0 REL That should give me: (...) (17 years ago, 3-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: How to Rotate LPub Instruction Images with ROTSTEP (a crash course for fellow Mac users)
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Just want to say I appreciate (and use) this mini tutorial all the time! -Dan (17 years ago, 28-Oct-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Introduction to LPub 4 video
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Here is a video showing how to set up LPub and how to use it to create instructions for a simple model: (URL) to all the files used in the example are available on that page. The screencast was recorded on a Mac, but I think most of the features (...) (18 years ago, 6-Oct-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | MLCad with a Mac
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I confess this is a strange post for me to be writing, but lo and behold, I discovered yesterday that I can run MLCad on my Intel Mac without Windows. And the installation is utterly painless. It goes like this: Download Darwine at (URL); it's a (...) (18 years ago, 12-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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