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Hi Folks, I've got a 10 year old student who wants to create an animated minifig. He wants to create an animated gif by posing the minifig into a walking motion. Moving the arms and legs are easier while in the minifig generator. Unfortuantely, as (...) (20 years ago, 28-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Thanks for MLCad
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Michael, I've been working on a new draft of LPub with lots of new features. In trying to increase the quality and reliability of LPub, I've been pushing a lot of models through LPub. I've really used the Arrow generator a lot. It is great! Thanks (...) (20 years ago, 24-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Trouble creating building instructions using lpub and mpd file
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"Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message [ ... snipped ... ] (...) [ ... snipped ... ] I highly recommend the O'Reilly "lex and yacc" book, I found it very helpful for a project I did at work a number of years ago. The moderated (...) (20 years ago, 11-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Trouble creating building instructions using lpub and mpd file
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(...) You could also define an escape character, to accept the character following (including spaces) as part of the string. However, as the standard allows both / and \ as directory separators, it would require some character other than \ (a common (...) (20 years ago, 11-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Trouble creating building instructions using lpub and mpd file
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(...) There are other possibilities too, for example: 7. You can exceed 8.3 but don't embed spaces or other sorts of whitespace 8. Limit filenames to only the character set legal for BrickShelf folders Not meant to be exhaustive, just to get (...) (20 years ago, 10-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Trouble creating building instructions using lpub and mpd file
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(...) I used them until I got a VERY bizarre image of the 10016 tanker in L3p/PovRay. I promptly switched to using hyphens prefixed by the model id :) (20 years ago, 10-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Trouble creating building instructions using lpub and mpd file
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(...) Well, technically ldlite has been around since well before MLCad, and it supports the double quotes, but MLCad is more widely used. So I guess you could make that argument either way. (...) I only asked for a recommendation, not a requirement. (...) (20 years ago, 10-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Trouble creating building instructions using lpub and mpd file
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(...) I'll do the same. (...) Hi Don, Nice post. GROUP commands are defined outside the LDraw spec, but I'd guess that the naming issues are the same. I just made a minor change to: 0 PLIST BEGIN SUB <file> // depricated 0 LPUB PLI BEGIN SUB <file> (...) (20 years ago, 10-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Trouble creating building instructions using lpub and mpd file
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Hmmm, I'm not sure if this effort is actually making things more compatible. (...) I just did a little testing myself. MLCad seems to strip off any whitespace (tabs and space characters) at the end of the line when it grabs the filename. Is that (...) (20 years ago, 10-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Trouble creating building instructions using lpub and mpd file
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(...) I am currently going through the L3P code and I have now added support for filenames with spaces, both in linetype 1 and in "0 FILE xxx". It now uses the rest of the line as the filename. It also accepts filenames in double-quotes. /Lars (20 years ago, 10-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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