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In lugnet.cad, Wayne Gramlich writes:
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> 1. One of my fellow BayLUG members is a *very* pro-Linux.
> Much to my suprise he wound up using MLCAD to do his
> MOC instruction manuals. When I asked him "why?",
> his response has that LeoCAD could not read and write
> files that interoperated with MLCAD. My gut reaction
> to this statement, is that it should be almost trivial
> to get LeoCAD to read MLCAD generated files and write
> files that MLCAD can subsequently read.
What do you mean by that? LeoCAD has been able to read/write .dat files
for years.
> 2. I never found the LeoCAD GUI to be particularly hard, but
> I did notice that I never wanted to move bricks around
> with the mouse; instead, I always used the keyboard because
> I couldn't precisely position anything any other way. It
> may be sufficient to add a mode to LeoCAD to allow people
> to use LDraw/MLCAD keyboard bindings.
I use the keyboard exclusively too but I never thought that following the
LEdit keys was so important to other people. I'll work on that.
Leonardo
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In lugnet.cad, Leonardo Zide writes:
> In lugnet.cad, Wayne Gramlich writes:
> >
> > 1. One of my fellow BayLUG members is a *very* pro-Linux.
> > Much to my suprise he wound up using MLCAD to do his
> > MOC instruction manuals. When I asked him "why?",
> > his response has that LeoCAD could not read and write
> > files that interoperated with MLCAD. My gut reaction
> > to this statement, is that it should be almost trivial
> > to get LeoCAD to read MLCAD generated files and write
> > files that MLCAD can subsequently read.
>
> What do you mean by that? LeoCAD has been able to read/write .dat files
> for years.
Alas, I did not know that. After your telling me, I dug
around the http://www.leocad.org/ site and found:
http://leocad.org/faq.htm#G4
I must have read that a long time ago and forgotten it.
Maybe a GUI tweak to specify the save format? I don't
know.
I will tell my friend that .DAT file reading and writing
are very possible. I will see if that changes his mind.
This should be interesting. I'll report back what I find out.
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-Wayne
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