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Re: CAD formats (was Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts
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lugnet.lego.direct
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Wed, 6 Dec 2000 14:05:31 GMT
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message
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> In lugnet.lego.direct, Richard Marchetti writes:
> > What you said, Baby!
> >
> > I wondered upon these issues almost immediately. Are they reinventing • the
> > wheel, or reusing the wheel that has already been made?
>
> One hopes for the latter but fears for the former. We have a licensing
> problem with the parts library, which we need to address, quickly, IMHO, • or
> stumbling blocks of our own making could prevent TLC legal from approving
> use of the LDraw format. This is being discussed in the CAD groups (work
> faltered on a license, it's a hard problem. I'm arguing that the matter • all
> of a sudden got more urgent)
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> I am sure that most of us would not like to see a Creator style interface • or
> Creator format data files... but rather would prefer the 100 flowers of • the
> many different LDraw compatible programs to continue to bloom rather than
> wither on the vine, so that users have a choice of interface styles, etc.
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> ++Lar
It would be great if somehow TLC worked with the LCAD community to develop
this software, and allowed DAT format natively, like the proposed Artemis
project mentions. It would of course need its own more advanced format
because more stuff would be needed, but including DAT would be a _very_ wise
thing to do.
I hope the parts license gets resolved quickly too.
--
Tim Courtney - tim@zacktron.com
http://www.ldraw.org - Centralized LDraw Resources
http://www.zacktron.com - Zacktron Alliance
ICQ: 23951114 - AIM: TimCourtne
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