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    Re: LEGOfactory.com launches... and it's big! —Eric Kingsley
   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)
   
        Re: LEGOfactory.com launches... and it's big! —Marc Nelson, Jr.
   (...) 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)
   
        Re: LEGOfactory.com launches... and it's big! —Allan Bedford
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: LEGOfactory.com launches... and it's big! —Marc Nelson, Jr.
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: LEGOfactory.com launches... and it's big! —Allan Bedford
      (...) 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)
     
          Re: LEGOfactory.com launches... and it's big! —Anders Isaksson
      (...) 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)
    
         Re: LEGOfactory.com launches... and it's big! —Anders Isaksson
     (...) 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)
   
        Re: LEGOfactory.com launches... and it's big! —Eric Kingsley
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: LEGOfactory.com launches... and it's big! —Anders Isaksson
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: LEGOfactory.com launches... and it's big! —Eric Kingsley
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: LEGOfactory.com launches... and it's big! —Anders Isaksson
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: LEGOfactory.com launches... and it's big! —Eric Kingsley
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: LEGOfactory.com launches... and it's big! —Anders Isaksson
     "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)
   
        Re: LEGOfactory.com launches... and it's big! —Anders Isaksson
   (...) 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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