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(...) I agree that it can be useful to have larger, less frequent updates, and I wasn't trying to suggest that we stop publishing the files in that way. What I was trying to say is this: as things are right now, all part-changes are released at the (...) (24 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I'm going to do that. (...) Terry Keller is working on cleaning up the original LDraw distribution. He is adding LCad-style headers to all of the parts and primitives. They will look similar to this: 0 Brick 2 x 4 0 Name: 3001.dat 0 Author: (...) (24 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I really think that someone should contact the family about this. One thing we could do to make sure James is recognized for his efforts is to add the correct Author: tags to all the files. We could also include credits in a readme file (...) (24 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Hey, great idea! Having just entered LDLite into the www.sourceforge.net archive, I think CVS would be a good way to distribute and update parts files. It sure would be easier to make sure everything was up to date, and would make a nice clean way (...) (24 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) There is however spomthing to be siad for having monolithic updates in that ensure consitency of part updates. Additonaly not all of us have acess to the Net on a regular basis. I understand what you are getting at but after I have spent 5 (...) (24 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Good catch--I was making assumptions. I really wish the discussion you fired off a few months ago had gone through to completion. BUT, take a look at (URL). It plainly states that the terms around the original LDraw package: (...) The original (...) (24 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) How do you know that? I've never seen any formal terms of use statement for the community created part files. With this lacking, wouldn't it be natural for parts authors to assume that submitted parts follow the same terms of use as the (...) (24 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Good point. I will check into this. In the meantime, don't anyone plan anything permanent around this function. If this is a problem, it would only apply to the parts in the original LDraw file library, not to additional work done by LCadders. (...) (24 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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It is probably a good idea to serve parts directly from ldraw.org like this. However, I would like to know if this is consistent with the terms of use for the LDraw parts library. Specifically, I seem to remember from previous discussions that James (...) (24 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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There has been some talk about serving LDraw parts directly from ldraw.org, mostly to allow rendering programs to fetch part-files over the internet. To get a start on such a service, the parts library has been made available via http (it's not (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Here's just an update since my last post here. We'll be adding these items to the CD: MLCAD Blockcad Povray (for various OS's, plus libraries) James' Models Ben Whytcross's Database Project (sample) (now all of you can stop emailing me and telling (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev) !
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Hi, (...) It seems MLCad is missing in the list ... (...) Ciao, Joachim (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) You can take any of my mocs modeled by LeoCAD from LeoCAD gallery page. They are in LeoCAD format but I can export them in Ldraw format if you want. Selçuk (24 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Now, that's strange. Anyway, it doesn't matter too much where you put it as long as it works and you don't have multiple copies of it. The latter would mess things up if you upgrade LDraw-mode. (...) This statement says that you want to colour (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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Fredrik: First of all, thanks for the help! (...) Earlier, I went through some of the "tutorial" that comes with emacs. I think I have the gist of how it works... (...) Heh, problem is I'm used to the Windows shortcuts for everything. (...) Hmm, (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Sure! The instructions on the web page are written for people who have some experience with Emacs already. This is not done to scare off people who are new to Emacs, but because I'm lazy and because I wasn't expecting people who are not into (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) experience with emacs whatsoever, I don't even know where to begin (how to I byte-compile ldraw-mode, for example?). Could you give me some advice? TIA, --Bram Bram Lambrecht.........Br...L@JUNO.com (URL) (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Tim Courtney skrev i meddelandet <3914f579.14098842@l...et.com>... (...) Careful there! Including POVRay on the CD forces you to follow their price policy: "the total cost to the user is no more than $0.08 U.S. dollars per megabyte of data", or you (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Tim Courtney skrev i meddelandet <3914f579.14098842@l...et.com>... (...) You can get many examples of simple models by exporting the BlockCAD models as .dat files. -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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