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Re: Conversion file for ldraw to ldd
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lugnet.cad.ldd
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Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:29:59 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.ldd, Timothy Gould wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.ldd, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> > In lugnet.cad.ldd, Lars C. Hassing wrote:
> > > In lugnet.cad.ldd, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> > > > I haven't ever tried LDD on the Mac,
> > >
> > > Nor have I.
> > >
> > > > but I do have some Mac info that might
> > > > help. First of all, unlike the system Windows Open/Save dialogs, the system Mac
> > > > Open/Save Panels don't support file type selection, so doing this at all
> > > > requires custom code unless an app is NSDocument-based.
> > >
> > > L3Lab doesn't have a Save dialog, but in the Open dialog
> > > there is a Pop Up Button with label "Enable",
> > > that let's you choose from:
> > > All Readable Documents
> > > L3 LDraw file (ldr)
> > > L3 LDraw file (mpd)
> > > All Documents
> > >
> > > If you select e.g. "L3 LDraw file (ldr)"
> > > all files but *.ldr are grayed out.
> > >
> > > L3Lab is Carbon, I use NavCreateGetFileDialog and
> > > NavDialogSetFilterTypeIdentifiers.
> > > /Lars
> >
> > Once I got a better ldraw.xml, the conversion process provided me with a valid
> > ldraw file.
> >
> > The instructions associated with LXF seem to indicate that LDD knows about
> > sub-models, but yet it seems to in-line them when spitting out the ldr file.
> >
> > I guess LDD does not support MPD.
> >
> > Kevin
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> I believe it can read them but can't write them. Earlier versions definitely
> could but the newer ones may be missing that feature. And yeah the LXF file
> format definitely has the concept of sub-models.
>
> Tim
Tim,
I've been face down in LPub 4...... Has the LDraw community created its own
convertor that supports MDP format?
Thanks,
Kevin
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| (...) I don't think there's any direct converters out there going either way. In principle (practise maybe not) it shouldn't be too hard to do so long as you have the read-write libraries. LXF files and the conversion file are just XML (zipped with (...) (16 years ago, 28-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: Conversion file for ldraw to ldd
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| (...) I believe it can read them but can't write them. Earlier versions definitely could but the newer ones may be missing that feature. And yeah the LXF file format definitely has the concept of sub-models. Tim (16 years ago, 26-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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