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  Merry Christmas
Posted by: Max Martin Richter - 2012-12-24, 10:02 - Forum: Off-Topic - Replies (6)

Hej,
I want to wish everybody in the LDraw community a Merry Christmas - especially to the admin, the programmers and the part authors.
I'm not sure where all these persons come from. So I write the main fact in the languages, from which I know, that somebody is participating here.

  • Merry Christmas
  • Joyeux Noël
  • God Jul
  • Vrolijk Kerstfeest
  • Buon Natale
  • Feliz Navidad
  • Fröhliche Weihnachten
and of course the language of the home country of TLG ;-)
  • Glædelig Jul


/Max

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  32168 Technic Arm Forked with Flexible Center and Ball Joint
Posted by: Michael Heidemann - 2012-12-23, 17:05 - Forum: Part Requests - Replies (1)

If someone is able to finish my work I am greatly happy. All what I have done so far is packed in this mpd content file.

I look currently through my system for non finished parts. If I find some (like this) I will post it here, so maybe someone else can finish that.



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.mpd   32168 Technic Arm Forked with Flexible Center and Ball Joint.mpd (Size: 20.79 KB / Downloads: 6)
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Thumbs Up 4350c01: Electric 4.5V Battery Box 4 x 22 x 2 & 1/3
Posted by: Ignacio Fernandez Galvan - 2012-12-23, 10:09 - Forum: Part Requests - Replies (5)

Anyone willing to model this piece? http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/4350c01 (and its companion http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/x472)

I don't have this one, I've only seen it in the instructions for other models, as an extension pack (http://www.peeron.com/inv/sets/8700)

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  Acceptable vertex mismatch error
Posted by: Paul Griffin - 2012-12-20, 7:37 - Forum: Parts Authoring - Replies (4)

For parts 2997 and 2998, I have noticed many edges that simply don't match up. In one case, two "identical" vertices overlap by .09 u; in another, there is about a .07 u gap. Without the ability to identify edges, I am unable to smooth normals, and I'm certain I will encounter other side effects.

Should I consider such a mismatch to be /too large/ and request/submit a part update, or should I instead implement some kind of vertex snapping tool? Or should I do both?

It would be useful information if there is some standard on identifying identical vertices, or, at the least, on the minimum acceptable feature size (minimum length of any polygon edge).

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  Export of .mpd to single 'stand-alone' .ldr file ?
Posted by: Rob - 2012-12-19, 20:42 - Forum: LDraw Editors and Viewers - Replies (26)

Hi,

Can anyone point me in the direction of an application or utility which will take a multi-part ldraw file (i.e. an .mpd file) and convert it into a single 'standalone' LDR file ?

i.e. something which takes an mpd file and outputs the 'absolute' position and rotation of each part in the model referenced to the origin - not to another part of the model.

Hope that makes sense...

I've had a go writing a conversion myself but got bogged down - has to be recursive I think for multiple 'nested' models.

If no such thing exists could any one give me some tips (not code necessarily) but the method I would need follow to acheive what I'm after ?

Thanks.

Rob @ TCBUK

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  Legalese
Posted by: Tim Gould - 2012-12-19, 20:05 - Forum: General LDraw.org Discussion - No Replies

It was brought up elsewhere that charging for LDraw programs might bring the wrath of TLG down on us. I have my doubts. They have to enforce their trademarks always, as this is part of how trademarks work, but as MB etc. have proved the parts themselves are not trademarked. Furthermore the LDraw library would still be free, and it's the only thing that in any remote way might breach copyright.

However, while thinking about this I realised something more worrying. It is possibly that D1sney's lawyers might come after "iconic D1sney brands" (remember this now includes Star Wars) as represented on printed tiles and minifig components. Basically all the parts that aren't allowed outside their lines contain copyrighted designs (facial expressions, logos etc.) which we are reproducing. This is possibly in breach of copyright.

Do we have any lawyers here who could say something about this issue?

While it is "fanart" is probably not going to get stomped on. But you never know.

Tim

PS. Please use D1sney as I do in any responses to not make us a target of click-and-search law crap.

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  Parts we are working on
Posted by: Willy Tschager - 2012-12-19, 14:11 - Forum: Part Requests - Replies (133)

Post here Number/Description (preferably also with a link) of the parts you are currently working on.

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  New (unofficial) part not recognized by MLCad
Posted by: Jaco van der Molen - 2012-12-19, 14:08 - Forum: LDraw Editors and Viewers - Replies (9)

Hi all,

There is a strange problem going on I cannot solve.

I have added a new unofficial part to my library downloaded from the partstracker.
It concerns part 11211 Brick, Modified 1 x 2 with Studs on 1 Side.

I have put it in <LDRAWDIR>Unofficial\Parts and I use the [SCAN_ORDER] option in MLCad.ini.
However MLCad cannot find the part.
I generated a new partslist from MLCad... no succes. The part is not in the list.
So I decided to put the parts in the official parts folder and generate a new parts.lst file using good old mklist.
It ended up in the parts list just fine.
However, it does NOT show in MLCad and I cannot find it.

I have put it in my model using Insert new part and then browse for it in <LDRAWDIR>\Parts\11211.dat. It added it just fine to the model and it showed. Saving the model, closing MLCad, start MLCad again en open the file gives an error:
File 11211.dat not found! Continue loading?

Putting the part file in the same folder as my model does not help either.
How is this possible? Any thoughts?

Thanks.

Jaco

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  Parts in progress entry
Posted by: Max Martin Richter - 2012-12-19, 13:25 - Forum: Website Suggestions/Requests/Discussion - Replies (3)

I would really like to have a place, where the part authors can write on which part(s) they are actually working.
Maybe divided in: long term process and short term process.
This should not mean, that we should write such a message for a part that's done in a couple of hours, but ween your are working on a part for some days or weeks, it is much more frustrating, if someone else loads this part into the PT and you have "wasted" your time.

/Max

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  please open also LSC forums for posting for everyone
Posted by: Steffen - 2012-12-19, 1:39 - Forum: Help - Replies (10)

dear LSC, could we pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze get rid of the annoyance that
users cannot comment on ongoing discussions within the LSC forum?
I feel this an unproductive and unnecessary restriction.

For example, I just wanted to answer this post
http://forums.ldraw.org/showthread.php?t...19#pid7319
which wrote
"Filename is the relative path to the file, relative to the P or PARTS directory."
, and I wanted to add that this should read probably better
"Filename is the relative path to the file, relative to the current folder, the MODELS or PARTS or P folder, in this order"
, but I wasn't able to....

I cannot imagine what such a posting restriction should be good for :-|||

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