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Subject:	New Ldraw parts authors tool: Projector
Newsgroups:	lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle
Followup-To:	lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle
Date:	Wed, 7 May 2008 13:15:46 GMT
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This new tool allows easy creation of non-flat patterned LDraw parts. Create a flat pattern and stamp it on a 3D former.

Program, documentation, source code are available here.

To show the usefulness of this tool, I created the four Viking shields:

available on LDraw Parts Tracker.

Enjoy!

Philo

Message has 7 Replies:

		Re: New Ldraw parts authors tool: Projector
(...) What a clever tool. That seems like it will be very useful! Jim (16 years ago, 7-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)

		Re: New Ldraw parts authors tool: Projector
Wow! That is very cool! I'm going to have to find a curved piece in one of my models that needs a pattern and try it out. Thanks! Scott (16 years ago, 7-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)

		Re: New Ldraw parts authors tool: Projector
Very nice. I don't author parts, so I won't be trying it out. However, I looked at your tutorial, and I have two suggestions: Add "Un-Project", where it takes a projected shape and flattens it automatically on an axis specified by the user (X, Y, or (...) (16 years ago, 7-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)

		Re: New Ldraw parts authors tool: Projector
(...) Wow. Awesome. I've been meaning to write something like this for ages so I'm very happy. Would it work on minifig faces too? Tim (16 years ago, 7-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)

		Re: New Ldraw parts authors tool: Projector
(...) This is great! Like Tim, I'd been thinking about writing a tool like this for a long time. Thank you very much for making this available. Steve (16 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)

		Re: New Ldraw parts authors tool: Projector
(...) Philo! Awesome tool, can hardly wait to check it out. I've been waiting for a long, long time for such a prog. w. (16 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle)

		Re: New Ldraw parts authors tool: Projector
Reading your tutorial made me wonder whether scans of the orignal parts could be vectorized using Inkscape (Inkscape includes an automatic raster-to-vector converter). The resultant SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) file could then maybe be converted (...) (16 years ago, 10-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)

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