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Re: The future of LDraw?
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lugnet.cad
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Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:50:47 GMT
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Kevin L. Clague wrote:
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> I'd like an entry tool like LDD (which I've hardly used).
Actually, there has been an 'entry tool' around since 1998 - BlockCAD
(www.blockcad.net). While it's using part definitions of its own, and has a
lot of limitations (studs up only, fixed rotation of parts, no Technic) you
can
save models in the LDRAW format. BC has also had the availability of
one-click-rendering in POVRay almost since its beginning.
Thanks to its ease of use (parts snap on to each other), BC have been, and
is still, used in schools (and pre-schools) all around the world, as a first
introduction to CAD, for 3D visualization, maths, plain entertainment and so
on.
The natural step after BC is MLCad - you can open all your old BC models and
continnue in the more advanced tools.
--
Anders Isaksson
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| (...) Hi Dave, Thanks for your thoughtful input. I might be one of the causes of the bureaucracy you are referring to (in follow on posts). When I started to write LDraw tools back in late 1999, I turned to lugnet's LDraw forum to ask for guidance. (...) (14 years ago, 20-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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