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This is a bit old thread, but I wonder if sombody can answer me how this Buffer Exchange command affects the partlist? I just found out how to make subassemblies and then put the subasembly part into the main model by first using Buffer Exchange (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.inst)
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Hi Mike, I've wanted the sub-model selection stuff you talked about for a while also (whether you use MPD or not.) I think it would be very handy. I think that the form of this solution is in a GUI addition to LPub itself, where you get a list of (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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"Kevin Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:H8vv2I.6M3@lugnet.com... (...) paradigm. (...) them (...) I have added lugnet.inst to this post as there seems to be a lot of LPub related traffic in that group and the topic of my post (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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(...) My style is to do most of the building (and therefore most of the steps) in sub-models and then merge the sub-assemblies into the final assembly in a few steps in the top level file. I use as many levels of sub-models as is necessary. I never (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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(...) OK the installer is slightly less sucky, because now it puts the parts in the LDRAW\Parts directory. Kevin (22 years ago, 18-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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An interesting philosophical question about instruction approaches... Does anyone have any thoughts on or examples of instructions that are organized in a hierarchy as opposed to linearly? Where an instruction hierarchy would start with the building (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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I totally agree with all these comments. This especially rears it's head when doing passenger coaches where I've use the same sub model 36 times in s set of 4 coaches! Which brings up an interesting philosophical question about instruction (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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"Kevin Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:H8vFL3.9Js@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) it to (...) I don't see any down side to doing that. Mike -- Mike Walsh - mike_walsh at mindspring.com (URL) - North Carolina (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) I remembered this issue the other day and was surprised no one had asked about it. (...) I like the idea of creating the seperate picture, but would prefer to add it to the screen web pages also. (...) Thanks Mike, Kevin (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: Sand Green and POV
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I've run into this problem before using Pov-Ray. What you need to do is find the line that calls the complete model (will be just before the camera statement) and remove the #if statement. For example: Remove #if (version >= 3.1) material #else (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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(...) Installers are highly uninspiring, but I will fix this for the next release (which will happen as soon as I fix and test the installer.) Kevin (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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I really like your tool, it will save me a lot of time and struggling and allow mw to add to my models I do, hower have a a comment on the installer you use, it sucks.. instead of placing the parts in the correct parts directories it placed them in (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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"Kevin Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:H8t9F9.BAt@lugnet.com... (...) parts (...) in (...) was (...) Yeah! I have seen this with many of the train models I have created. In one case I used a sub-model 8 times and LPub (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Hi Ahui, If you are still having problems, just email an example that does not work, or post it here. I will figure it out and get back to you. Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Hi Dave, Right now the installer is too simple. It needs to know where the LDraw directory is, so it can add some parts to your parts directory. It does a simple search for this: LDRAW\MKLIST.EXE on your hard disks. It cannot find it. I'd guess one (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Bill, My initial thought is.... what are the chances that someone will find a commercial use for this program? But in thinking about it more, I have no idea how far other contributing authors will take this program, so out of respect for their (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) Try using L3P and POV-Ray without LPub, because I'd be surprised if it was an LPub issue. If it works without LPub please let me know. Could it be that L3P doesn't know how to map the Sand Green color to RGB? (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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All, I have built a model in MLCad in Sand Green. Using LPub, I rendered out the main image and rather than Sand Green, the color came out light gray. How can I make sure that it renders in Sand Green? Thanks! Jake --- Jake McKee LEGO Enthusiast (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: My first instructions online
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(...) Rob, I like it! I wouldn't change a thing. Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.trains)
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I posted my first set of instructions to get the feel of all this great software you gurus are coming up with. It is an end of line bumper for the end of a train track. Feedback is welcome whether good, bad, or ugly! (URL) on the "Creations" (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.trains)
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(...) GPL is the best in terms or preserving the author's rights. Public Domain is a bad idea - it means you surrender any rights to the software, and people can then basically use it to build their own commercial programs and wouldn't owe you (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: Seeking input on reused user parts in building instructions
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Hi Will, As I was writing the original post, I realized that I had a question for myself, does the X4 go on the image itself, or does it go in the web pages generated by LPub. If I make it go into the web pages, then I think it leaves more (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: Seeking input on reused user parts in building instructions
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(...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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While it is a great idea to supress the multiple rendering of the same steps, I'm not sure there is really any added value to displaying the "x4" on the last step. I find that I always take a pass through the final rendered instruction images, in my (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Hi, I've decided to tackle an issue that has been on my mind for a while. LPub's handling of building instructions, where sub-model user-defined parts are used multiple times in the overall design. It all started when I was editing a DSDK model (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Tim and Michael, I'd love to see this feature as well, although it is easy to say from the outside. We have no idea how MLCAD is orgranized, so this may be pretty hard to do, especially getting nice preview images of synthesized parts. Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) an (...) the (...) so (...) Right. Keep up the good work! I am looking forward to the next version. Jaco (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) Great! They are 73590A and B btw... :-) Jaco (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) Not really. I tend to waver somewhere between the GPL and Public Domain, depending on how long it's been since I've had trouble with piece of closed software. Of the few licences here (URL) I've read, the zlib license is the shortest, and I do (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: LSynth 2.0 Available
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Hi Ahui, You do not need to use an editor to add these coments. Lsynth compensates for MLCAD's WRITE statements, by ignoring the WRITE keywoard. Two things to examine: 1. LSynth is case sensitive, so SYNTH is not the same as synth. 2. If you are (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Has anyone besides Kevin been able to get LSynth to work? I can get it to run the examples.mpd file but when ever I get my own file it does nothing? I have added the comments in a text editor (since MLCAD adds the WRITE statements to commets) and (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Hi Don, I have no idea what license to choose. Do you have a recommendation? Kevin (...) <snip> (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) Sure, send it along. I think the only sticky point that should be resolved before creating the project is the source code license. (I say "sticky" because we seem to have gotten stuck there with the parts library and a recent attempt to get (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) I STRONGLY suggest to Michael he work on a plugin architecture for MLCAD and publish the specs. Then anyone can write MLCAD plugins without Michael having to do all of the work to integrate the 3rd party generators. It should free up some time (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Hi Dave, I'll have to look when I'm home to figure out what to do here. I think it looks in C:\LDRAW, and/or looks for an LDRAW environment variable to be set. I think it depends on the same environment variable L3P depends on, but I'm not sure. (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) installed" error when I try to install LSynth 2.0. This is especially baffling to me, since I used LEdit not two minutes prior to trying to install LSynth. Do I need to install it in a particular directory? Dave! (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) A simple fix to reduce the file size some what is to limit the amount of digits in the synthisized part. For example, I noticed that lsynth writes 10.000000 instead of just 10. Also I think 3 or 4 decimal places is accurate enough (although (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) Me too. I'd also like it to be integratable into development environments. This is why the actual synthesizer is a simple ASNI C program that can be accessed via command prompt methods, whether that be unix or windows, and all the actual (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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(...) This is basically what I wanted to suggest. Fredrik's (and therefore my) method is probably what should be used. I really want all bendible part synthesis to be united under one program. -Orion (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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Hi Don, I'd love it if you would set up the project on sourceforge. I know nothing about sourceforge specifically, although I've use source code control systems for many years. As we can see, there are plenty of wasy to improve lsynth, and I think (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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