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While I think this is a good idea I have found the software fragile. I cannot save at all, it just shuts down the program. I find it very difficult to line up the 8x8 plates/roadplates next to each other. I am going to try reinstalling the software (...) (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(...) I also had problems with lining up pieces. Here are some things that helped me: Adjust the mouse sensitivity in the LDD configuration program. This will help with the "floaty" feeling of the pieces. Wait a second before jiggling the piece (...) (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(...) Marc, Good information, thank you! Quick follow-up questions. (...) Raise or lower the sensitivity? (...) Will try that. (...) I tried playing with that a bit, but my test model was just a bunch of random pieces, I'm still trying to get the (...) (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(...) Thanks, placing pieces I have figured out. I can now sporadically save with some manual preferances set but it is very sporadic and the graphics are real flakey. I love the idea but I am runing on a pretty beefy Windows XP machine and these (...) (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(...) I raised it - I set it at about 1.5, if I remember correctly. (...) Yeah, I think that's a feature, not a bug. (...) They always seem to rotate around the corners for me as well. I'm not sure what you mean by "moves the piece out of the (...) (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(...) I'll try that. (...) Picture 4 2x2 bricks together as a square. (2 bricks wide, 2 bricks long) So you have a model that is 4 studs x 4 studs. If I were to rotate one of those, around its own corner, it would move itself out of that 4x4 (...) (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(...) It's probably a feature. The maths for converting a point on the 2D screen to a 3D position gets rather flakey when you are looking almost horizontally - I have the same problem (and limitation) in BlockCAD. (20 years ago, 11-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego)
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(...) I found the easiest way to lay the baseplates was from the underside! Yes you can add pieces 'top down' if you want - the floor sinks when you add something from the bottom. I think the 'clicking' is sometimes fantastic, and sometimes just (...) (20 years ago, 11-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego)
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(...) It looks like they have put the zero point of the parts in one corner, not in the center point as in LDRAW. OTOH, when you are tilting a part (up arrow) it's not rotating around the same point, but that may be an effect of the snapping. (...) (...) (20 years ago, 11-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego)
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(...) Problems like these are most often the effect of the video card and the video drivers. I have NVIDIA GeForce2 MX (I think), DirectX 9, resolution 1152x864, 32 bit colour, updated drivers, and absolutely no problems with video or saving. Make (...) (20 years ago, 11-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego)
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(...) Well I think I agree that it is my video driver but this is my beef... I run some fairly graphics intensive games with no problem, nothing super big graphics wise but WarCraft isn't a cupcake either. I don't see LEGO Digital Designer requiring (...) (20 years ago, 12-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego)
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(...) Unfortunately problems like these almost never have anything to do with 'sophistication', it's just an effect of a couple of things: There is an uncountable number of permutations of a PC system - bus, RAM, video etc. etc. Most programmers (...) (20 years ago, 12-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego)
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(...) Anders, Thanks so much for your help, unfortunately none of your suggestions have helped. I am a software engineer but deal very little if at all with graphics. For the most part I do financial number crunching stuff. Your insite is helpful. (...) (20 years ago, 13-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego)
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"Eric Kingsley" <kingsley@nelug.org> skrev i meddelandet news:I73K2L.1HI9@lugnet.com... (...) Bummer. It works quite well on my machine, and I'm almost beginning to like it! (...) Minimum (...) You can always use my BlockCAD program instead. Not (...) (20 years ago, 13-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego)
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