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Re: Baseplate generator program
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Thu, 27 May 2004 04:59:02 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Lester Witter wrote:
> I am developing a building in MLCAD (which I have built). I intend to including
> an interior and may use cut (Gasp!!) baseplates for floors. Since the parts
> library did not include non-standard baseplates (like 22x12) I wrote a small
> program that will generate a rectangular baseplate of any dimensions.
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> I may have posted about this before but never got around to doning anything
> more.
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> I would be happy to make the program GPL or public domain or give it to
> ldraw.org. How would this happen?. The souece code is "C" (I also ahve a perl
> version). To use it you have to compile it (I am not familiar with packaging
> executables)
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> Is there any interest in this
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> One interesting issue is that the program is based on the 16x32 baseplate
> authored by James Jessiman) would the program be a deriviative work or the
> output?. (I developed the program by taking lines from the DAT file and using
> them as templates for the program.)
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> By the way this is not a hugh program, its only 218 lines including comments
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> Lester
I think that it's a good idea. There is a built-in part genereator in SimLego
too, but the parts it generates are far from today's LCad standards, and the
SimLego source code is forever lost.
A third way to go would be to write an LDraw Script (with BASIC-like syntax) and
use my compiler: http://home.swipnet.se/~w-20413/lds/lds.htm
But a standalone baseplate generator could be a great idea. Maybe you can extend
it to be able to generate 8 LDU thick plates and 24 LDU thick bricks too, to
make it really useful?
/Tore
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