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(...) alright!! thanks to the voters and congrats to cale on the garden tour scene. for fans of the shinkitsune, here is another alternate model for another life on mars set: (URL) g (...) (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: ldraw.org's MOTM & SOTM Winners for November 2001
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(...) You might want to update the front page of Ldraw.org. The picture for the MOTM is correct, but the caption still shows your AH-64. Likewise, the SOTM picture is correct, but the caption is wrong. -Duane (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | ldraw.org MOTM & SOTM Voting for December 2001
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Just a reminder... Voting for the Model/Scene of the Month now commences promptly on the first of each month and runs through to the end of the month. So it is there and waiting now at: (URL) Terry K -- (23 years ago, 2-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | ldraw.org's MOTM & SOTM Winners for November 2001
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Hi All, Time to announce the winners for November... MOTM: Joseph Gonzalez for his "Shinkitsune" mech. SOTM: Cale Leiphart for "A Garden Tour". Congratulations to both for a job well done. And see both the winners at: (URL) don't forget, with the (...) (23 years ago, 2-Dec-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
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| | Re: LDraw and LEdit source code?
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(...) Looks like I *was* wrong about the DOS mesa after all. Apparently the AllegroGL folks have picked up the slack. So If anyone is nutz enough to want a DOS version of ldglite you can get it at: (URL) limps along in DOS mode under Windows 95 with (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: ldraw.org's MOTM & SOTM for November
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Terry: (...) I thought so too. And except for a short while (enough to catch three messages though), it seems to have worked. Jacob (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: ldraw.org's MOTM & SOTM for November
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(...) 449kb? I do? I thought that email was being forwarded to me. -- Terry K -- (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: ldraw.org's MOTM & SOTM for November
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(...) Shhh! Split-second makes the org sound more efficient. Besides, I didn't mention the time zone of the server. So anyone in the U.S. that waits until the stroke of midnight will be impressed when the pages are ready and waiting. :-) -- Terry K (...) (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: ldraw.org's MOTM & SOTM for November
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I think the new scheme looks great! Having the contestants up for a prolonged period makes the site more worth visiting at all times. Besides, seeing the wide variety of contestants probably makes it more encouraging for newbies to submit their (...) (23 years ago, 2-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LDraw.org Credits
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Quick request - could everyone who has contributed to LDraw.org in one way or another please check the credits page: www.ldraw.org/credits/ And let me know if your name is not on there and should be. Please email me (tim@ldraw.org) with a note to (...) (23 years ago, 2-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw and LEdit source code?
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(...) Yeah, I looked DOS Mesa and if I recall, it was no longer being maintained. I could be wrong about that though, but the CVS logs on SourceForge seem to contain many references to removing "old and broken DOS build support". Don Don (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Don: (...) Interest in the original LDraw and LEdit programs. ;-) (...) Mesa doesn't work on DOS?!? According to: (URL) is among the supported systems (through contributed drivers). Jacob (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Whoah! DOS version? Where did that come from? I think I asked about that once upon a time but there wasn't much interest. (URL) problem with a DOS version is finding decent opengl and glut support. I went as far as tracking down a possible (...) (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: ldraw.org's MOTM & SOTM for November
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Rick: (...) There were some problems with the e-mail system on the LDraw.org server (mostly due to a damaged disk on our firewall), which should have been solved by now. Send a message to both <sparre@ldraw.org> and <sparre@sslug.dk>, if you suspect (...) (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: ldraw.org's MOTM & SOTM for November
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Terry, I emailed you my entries almost two weeks ago. I sent another email, forward of the one on 10-21, today and it bounced back? What is up? Rick (...) (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Mark: (...) No. :-( (...) I think LDGLite is fully LEdit compatible by now (and works on Linux/Alpha systems), so it is probably worthwhile to look into adding the (if any) missing features to LDGLite. I don't know if LDGLite is distributed in a DOS (...) (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: ldraw.org's MOTM & SOTM for November
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Terry: (...) Don't worry. I didn't notice it myself anyway. It was much more worrying that you wrote "a split second after midnight", when it is actually a whole minute after midnight. ;-) Play well, Jacob (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LDraw and LEdit source code?
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Is the source code for either LDraw or LEdit available? It would be nice if somebody updated them to be able to view .MPD files or made it so LEdit could handle type 5 lines. (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: ldraw.org's MOTM & SOTM for November
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(...) DANG! I did it again. That's Jacob Sparre AnderSEN, not SON. My apologies Jacob. -- Terry K -- (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | ldraw.org's MOTM & SOTM for November
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Here goes. Thanks to our sys-admin Jacob Sparre Anderson, the new voting system for the Model/Scene Of The Month is up and running. It looks the same, but works differently (and much easier to manage). Details: Voting starts promptly at the turn of (...) (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LDraw Demonstrations at LEGOWORLD 2001, Zwolle, Netherlands
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Hi everyone - I just posted Jaco van der Molen's account of the LEGOWORLD 2001 event and his LDraw demonstrations on LDraw.org. Check it out: (URL) Courtney - tim@ldraw.org (URL) - Centralized LDraw Resources (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad, lugnet.loc.nl)
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| | LDraw.org to hold sessions at BricksWest 2002 in February
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Today LDraw.org announces it will be holding several sessions at BricksWest 2002, the LEGO event designed for Adult Fans of LEGO, their families, and children of all ages. The event will be held in Carlsbad, CA, the home of LEGOLAND California. For (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !!
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| | Re: LDraw History - here's one for the old timers in the group....
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(...) Some more dates: September, 1999 Datsville (at first LCADville) was born. Although Datsville never went as far as I (and others) would like to have seen it go, I think it made an important contribution to seeing what could be done with LCAD. (...) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.people)
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| | Re: Parts Tracker - Using L3P-check to scan submitted files
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(...) [snip] (...) [snip] (...) No, they should be fine. If you use a line like 0 END ROTATE (upper- or lower-case), that would cause the error message. Maybe we should have specified (back in the day, too late now) that meta-commands all have to (...) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: "All zeros" warning (Was: Parts Tracker Activity Page)
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(...) Yes, I believe they are. I haven't rechecked lately to see if anything has changed. If I get a chance in the next few days I will recheck it. (...) I understand and agree. I will cease making any comments on them. (...) really? ok. (...) Paul (23 years ago, 18-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Parts Tracker - Using L3P-check to scan submitted files
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(...) Looks good. (...) I have used the phrase "0 end of subpart", "0 end of file", etc in some of the parts I have made. Will these get rejected? I usually always try to keep them lowercase. (...) I'm not sure about this one. I feel that new parts (...) (23 years ago, 18-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Parts Tracker - Using L3P-check to scan submitted files
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Steve: (...) I assume that L3P reports the relevant lines, so it is trivial to remove one of the offending ones. (...) Right. Set a reasonably large threshold (0.1?) and reject based on it. Jacob (23 years ago, 18-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Parts Tracker - Using L3P-check to scan submitted files
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(...) [snip areas of agreement] (...) Which is sloppy, but not a killer error. (...) I didn't list the non-coplanar message with the "reject" group is because the thresholds of coplanarity are variable, not fixed. So we need to agree on what level (...) (23 years ago, 18-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Parts Tracker - Using L3P-check to scan submitted files
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Steve: (...) [...] Seems okay. (...) [...] Seems okay. (...) I would say yes. The last two definitely should, since they indicate unneeded resource use. The first one should really be split in to two triangles, if it really is intended to be (...) (23 years ago, 18-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Parts Tracker - Using L3P-check to scan submitted files
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Hey y'all- I'm just sort of starting to get to adding L3P-check'ing to the Parts Tracker submit function. I took a look at the documented messages, and tried to sort them out according to whether or not any particular error was cause to reject a (...) (23 years ago, 17-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: "All zeros" warning (Was: Parts Tracker Activity Page)
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(...) And I want to say "Thank You!" to Paul for doing this -- Lars Hassing has performed a similar service in the past, emailing the L3P messages to part authors. We[1] are in the process of incorporating L3P into the part submission function. I (...) (23 years ago, 17-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Parts Tracker Activity Page
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(...) I've taken some time away from the process of posting the backlog of parts to the tracker. I will get back to finish the job, but other tasks have higher priorities. Basically, I needed to finish developing the Parts Tracker.[1] It didn't make (...) (23 years ago, 17-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Parts Tracker Activity Page
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:GLBGz8.12E@lugnet.com... (...) and (...) Are you still going through the parts that had already been submitted prior to the new parts tracker too? Just wondering as the only part I've (...) (23 years ago, 17-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: "All zeros" warning (Was: Parts Tracker Activity Page)
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(...) Ok, I'm the guilty party who posted such notes on the tracker. :) I still pass a part with these errors. Some of my earler parts have these too. L3P issues several "warnings" many are not required to correct to get passed. What I am watching (...) (23 years ago, 17-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: "All zeros" warning (Was: Parts Tracker Activity Page)
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(...) Hmm. I interpret this like the lawyer's question, "Is that when you stopped beating your wife?" It's not really yes or no. The totally accurate answer is: there are no 2D objects in LDraw. The polygons we model are just the 2D surfaces of 3D (...) (23 years ago, 17-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw History - here's one for the old timers in the group....
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(...) I started working on it in June 96, at that time I had my own set of bricks all hardcoded into the program but a few months later (don't ask me when) I asked James if I could use his .DAT files in LeoCAD and converted them to my own format. (...) (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw History - here's one for the old timers in the group....
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"Bram Lambrecht" <bram@cwru.edu> wrote in message news:MABBIBJJFOJIOHD...wru.edu... (...) Heheh... (...) Added that you intro'ed the tutorial in Sept 98 (and I will link to it). Snipped cool history tidbits on LDraw/LEdit. (...) It would be neat if (...) (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | "All zeros" warning (Was: Parts Tracker Activity Page)
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WARNING "6260.dat" Line 7: Row 1 all zeros: & 1 16 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4-4edge.dat Does this mean that we are forced to incorrectly turn 2D objects into quasi-3D to make them pass the tests? /Tore (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Parts Tracker Activity Page
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(XPOST lugnet.cad, FUT lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) One of the usability challenges I've been having with the new Parts Tracker is knowing what's been going on. There are about 360 active files now[1], and it's hard to see new files and reviews being (...) (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw History - here's one for the old timers in the group....
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(...) [snip] (...) Yeah, I was in there - part 30055, Fence spindled 1 x 4 x 2 was my first. Followed by 2593, Wheel Hard-Plastic Medium (was that the first use of subpart files?). But I think Tore was the only author other than James to have a part (...) (23 years ago, 14-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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