 | | Re: LDraw to display at Legoland California for Kidvention
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(...) I will most likely be bringing my laptop to legoland then.. Loan?? lol (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.legoland.california)
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| | LDraw to display at Legoland California for Kidvention
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Greetings! I've just secured arrangements with Lego Direct to exhibit LDraw at the Kidvention in Legoland California this summer, from July 12-15. This display will consist of: High quality posters of renderings done using LDraw [1], information on (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.legoland.california, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.loc.us.ca.la, lugnet.general) !!
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| | www.ldraw.org working correctly?
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I have just upgraded the web server on www.ldraw.org, so please write me a _short_ note at <sparre-sms@sslug.dk>, if you find some problems with the site/server. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL: (URL) > -- (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: ldraw.org going down for a kernel upgrade tomorrow
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(...) Done. - I hope nobody noticed it. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL: (URL) > -- ---...--- (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | ldraw.org going down for a kernel upgrade tomorrow
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I have some problems using all the swap space I have in my machine, so I have just compiled a new kernel. I will reboot the machine tomorrow morning at approximately 8am Danish time. If I didn't make any misteaks - this is the first time I compile a (...) (24 years ago, 22-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Parts Library Posted to ldraw.org
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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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| | Re: Parts Library Posted to ldraw.org
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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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| | Re: Parts Library Posted to ldraw.org
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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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| | Re: Parts Library Posted to ldraw.org
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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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| | Re: Parts Library Posted to ldraw.org
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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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| | Re: Parts Library Posted to ldraw.org
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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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| | Re: Parts Library Posted to ldraw.org
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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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| | Re: Parts Library Posted to ldraw.org
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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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| | Parts Library Posted to ldraw.org
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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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| | LDraw CD-ROM - Another Update
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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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| | Re: LDraw CD-ROM Update
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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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| | Re: LDraw CD-ROM Update
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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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| | Re: LDraw CD-ROM Update
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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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| | Re: LDraw CD-ROM Update
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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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| | Re: LDraw CD-ROM Update
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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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| | Re: LDraw CD-ROM Update
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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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| | Re: LDraw CD-ROM Update
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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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| | Re: LDraw CD-ROM Update
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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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| | Re: LDraw CD-ROM Update
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Tim Courtney skrev i meddelandet ... (...) Of course you're welcome to put BlockCAD on the LDRAW CD! No strings attached. BlockCAD is already available on CD from many sources (CD-magazines, educational etc.), but the LDRAW CD is a most welcome (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw CD-ROM Update
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(...) When you say L2P, I suppose you've also included LGEO? I think L2P would be somewhat useless without the LGEO library... Other than that, you may include LDraw-mode, but I suppose there is only very narrow interest in that program, so it's not (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw CD-ROM Update
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Here are some more things to look at: the hoser spreadsheet l3pao ldrawscript max2dat rotate.xls the datsville project (the .mpd file would be a good place to start) (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw CD-ROM Update
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MLCad & PovRay! Michael Tim Courtney wrote in message <3914bd27.34219890@l...et.com>... (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw CD-ROM Update
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(...) Got MLCad, and thanks for reminding me to add Povray. (...) Check (just forgot to mention these) (...) Check (forgot these as well) (...) We'll get there... -Tim (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw CD-ROM Update
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Tim Courtney <tim@zacktron.com> schreef in berichtnieuws 3914bd27.34219890@lugnet.com... (...) MLcad Povray tutorials source codes and an awful lot of examples (like official lego sets,..) (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw CD-ROM Update
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(...) Hmm...somehow those got missed. I know we have permission on MLCad, but not sure on BlockCAD. Thanks. -Tim (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw CD-ROM Update
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(...) What about MLCAD and BlockCAD? --Bram (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LDraw CD-ROM Update
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Greetings I've been discussing LDraw CD-ROM issues with Don Heyse, Stephen Bissell, and Steve Bliss over the past couple weeks. Don just sent me a master CD-R in the mail of what we have so far. As of now, install files and HTML pages need to be (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.datfest) !
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| | MOTM May Winner!
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I'm pleased to announce that the winner for the ldraw.org MOTM May competition is none other than Todd Lehman with his Spider Walker model. Take a look at: (URL) and congrats Todd! -Tim (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (24 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
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| | Re: MOTM May
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(...) That was me, sorry about that. The server I had that stashed on went away mysteriously. While I have your attention I should point out that while the entry is credited to me, it's not actually all my work. The background, trees, and the track (...) (24 years ago, 30-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | MOTM May
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Sorry for the delay on the MOTM May vote. While trying to assemble the page for it I received an entry with a link to an image. That site is down right now and I'm waiting for the entry to be emailed to me. When that is done I'll add the voting (...) (24 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LDraw DAT format standard questions
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Hey all... Just a couple questions on the .dat file format: Is there an official document somewhere which outlines the specifics of the .dat format for people as a reference? If there isn't, it probably would be a good idea to have one. Also, I was (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Status of the OMR?
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(...) As I think about it, I can bump that up in priority, because by the time the CD-ROM is ready to be pressed (hopefully in a month or so), I'd like to be able to put some OMR models in there. I'm very busy this week though unfortunately, so (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Can you finish this ASAP, so that people can start preparing their sets for the OMR? I would help but on something like this people probobly wouldnt value my input. (...) What is hte problem with the storage? (...) I can help if you tell me (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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