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Hopefully within the next week or two. I've been very busy over the last few months co-authoring a book on LEGO CAD tools. We're rapildy approaching the deadline, so I have little time for LPub. I want to take the time to test it on Windows 98, (...) (22 years ago, 15-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.inst)
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I have added buffer exgange in my development version. It works except for one problem, the graying of previous steps parts gets messed up. I have to fix this. I also added ghosting and it works fine. I have to clean things up before a release, and (...) (22 years ago, 15-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.inst)
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(...) Can LPub handle the buffer exchnage and ghost parts? On version 2.0.0.65 it appears the answer is no.. =( -Ahui (22 years ago, 15-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.inst)
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Wow... I just studied the file, and I'm pretty sure I get it! Thanks Miguel! They do seem like very powerful commands, if you want to do instructions straight from MLCAD, and hopefully with the LPub support it will make rendering instructions with (...) (22 years ago, 14-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.inst)
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"Jeff Stembel" <aulddragon@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:H5F04K.Drt@lugnet.com... (...) and (...) but (...) that I (...) use (...) as (...) picture? (...) building is the ONLY "set" in that diorama that is NOT shown in the catalog. That is (...) (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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Don't forget 770 (US) / 386 (Europe) (URL) Wilson Lugnet #1783 (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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(...) Hmmm. I could have sworn I once saw a hospital-type set that was available briefly around the time of 6666, and with similar colors. I recall seeing it in a shelf-mounted catalog at a Service Merchandise in New Hampshire back in the early (...) (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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(...) too.) (...) Funny you mention this. A few of us discussed this item during BrickFest 2002, during my 'old Lego paperwork' session. My understanding is that indeed, these catalog pictures are supposed to show real sets, and that hospital was (...) (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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(...) G'day, I think you'll find that the jeep came with the fire station set [at least the international version did, and I assume the US version would have as well] Incidentally, the image here is different to the one that I was originally (...) (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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(...) Ditto. Ah, the classic era from the late 70s to the late 80s. I must stop now, otherwise I will go on. (sighs contentedly). (...) From 1987: Med-Star Rescue Plane (URL) 1978: Medic's Car (URL) 1989: Rescue Helicopter (URL) 1987: Red Cross (...) (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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(...) When can we expect the new release? I am anxious to try LPub but I guess I will wait for the next release to download again. Thanks. Jaco (22 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.inst)
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(...) Ah, seeing this image makes me feel all warm inside. Pictures from that era were from the first catalogs I had as a child. As for the hospital, I always assumed it was a Europe-only set (like the trains pictured in other brochures of my (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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(...) No need to scan it, it was in the '79 US catalog: (URL) would guess it was a promotional set or something. I don't think they would have used a non-set for that image. (...) I'd also guess that it was released on that plate, if it is a real (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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G'day, I was looking through my small collection of instructions the other day, and I noticed that on almost every set of instructions for town there is a picture of a town made up from sets available at the time the set was, but with the (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.town, lugnet.general)
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(...) this (...) services Ah, I was looking for something like that too. Thanks. I will study this further and try to understand. Jaco (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.inst)
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Now there is something. I am beginning to understand too. Thanks Kevin! "Kevin Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:H5DvI4.5pK@lugnet.com... (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.inst)
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Great! I will now look indepth into LPub and see if I can get it to work. Jaco "Kevin Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:H5E0tC.Fyu@lugnet.com... (...) will (...) MLCad, (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.inst)
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I just added buffer exchange into LPub, it fit *very* nicely and took only five minutes. I also just added ghosting to LPub and lsynth. These will be available in the next release. Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.inst)
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(...) Hi Miguel, This is not quite true. Ghosting in submodels works the same whether you are using MPD, or the old fashioned mechanism of LDraw files using other LDraw files as parts. I just studied this behavior in MLCAD and added GHOST support to (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.inst)
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Hi, The first you should know is that models with instructions steps that use CLEAR, BUFFER EXCHANGE and GHOST commands generally look really weird when viewed in "Place" mode. Download "waggon1.mpd" from Michael's site at (URL) you'll see what I (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.inst)
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