Interesting read: Dissertation by Mathew Wolfe

http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~mdv/courses/CM...007-08.pdf

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I apologize for not having been able to respond to any communications sent to me. I have been called up to active duty and will be deploying to Afghanistan in June, and we have had a lot of training recently. I will attempt to post any active parts I have been working on in the hopes that someone who has the time might complete them, otherwise I'll resume working on them when I return next year. Thanks.

Phil Peickert

Looking at the old held or non-ca parts, I thought I'd tackle a group of them at once:

6162 33230 6161
and add 47115 (similar to 6162).

I noticed some discussion on stud4f4n.dat about standardizing these extra primitives, and would like to take it one step further.

Before I uploaded a bunch of new primitives, I thought I'd share my thoughts and see what others think.


The flanges on the stud4f's could extend to the meet the next flange, and additional stud4's with longer flanges could be used for edges and corners. This would reduce the file tree and number of polygons used for each rib.

Groups for single- and double-spaced stud4f's and double-spaced stud4's could be created for the standard cases (4 flanges).

Ribs and rib-groups to make up between double-spaced stud4's and edges could also be created.

I've attached a couple preliminary files to show my thoughts about the non-flush ribs and double-spaced stud groups.


None of the stud4f's are released yet, and the parts that use them aren't either.

Opinions?

Attached Files

  stug4-1x4a.dat (Size: 399 bytes / Downloads: 0)
  stug4-4x4a.dat (Size: 419 bytes / Downloads: 0)
  rib4a.dat (Size: 521 bytes / Downloads: 0)
  rib4b.dat (Size: 497 bytes / Downloads: 0)
  rig4a1x4.dat (Size: 401 bytes / Downloads: 0)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV8HP2hcXPY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyijTDuotu4

another SEOC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR3IiXvzrds


EDIT: This is not a MOC. It's a SEOC, Someone Else's Own Creation.

An updated version of the LDraw All-In-One-Installer, in short AIOI, has been released:

• It comes with the latest LDraw Parts Library update 2012-01 as well as MLCad.ini file.
  
• SR 3D Builder has been added to the package.
  

Has anyone here have some first hand accounts of using the Cloudflare service? The hosted I used just enabled it for my domains and I'm curious if this is something I should activate or ignore?

It's been an extremely long time in coming, but LDView 4.2 Beta 1 is now available for download from the LDView downloads page here (reload the page if you don't see the Test Release section at the top of the Quick Jump section).

This is a Beta release, which means that I’m hoping to get as much feedback as possible. This also means that it is likely not as stable as a final release, so you probably don’t want to try it out if you absolutely hate using buggy software.

Some notable changes:

• Support for texture maps. Hopefully an official texture mapping extension will be approved by the LSC, and the final 4.2 release will work with the official extension.
  
• Support for blue neutral faces for BFC verification.
  
• Added "Right Side Up" feature, along with "Keep Right Side Up" setting while in fly-through mode.
  
• Quite a lot of bug fixes.
  

Hey,

Here is the new and fast LPC 1.3.2.
I do not recommend to continue using the previous version 1.3.1 due to the massive performance and stability improvements I have included in this release.

Please uninstall older versions of this software before installing a new version.

New features:

• You can save with one click on the toolbar floppy icon.
  
• You can merge a vertex to a triangle/template border (with the new functions in the “Merge/Split..” menu).
  
• You can deactivate the triangle overlap detection when it's active (just click on the menu entry again).
  
• You can keep your Config.cfg file (this file stores all your settings) after you have uninstalled the LPC and use it for future versions of this program.
  
• The "very fast triangulation" will prevent the generation of malformed triangles.
  
• The DAT import will now recognize deprecated ring#.dat/ring##.dat primitives.
  
• Post progressing will be done with Rectifier 1.8
  
• The drawing performance is improved and overall performance was improved. The “Performance Mode” should be superfluous.
  

• Several language translation bugs
  
• Filled triangles disappear when all vertices aren't placed in the viewport
  
• "CSG rotate" does not update the internal data structure
  
• Fatal undo/redo errors