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I thought I would save my first post to Lugnet for something good.
It is time to announce the completion of Bricksmith 1.0, my new LDraw editor for Mac OS X. Bricksmith provides a number
of features which have hitherto been lacking on the Macintosh, including:
- A fast, comprehensive part browser
- One-click access to the full Lego color palette
- Fully-functional MPD capabilities
- Steps, step display, and step exporting
- Undo, Copy, and Paste
- Drag-and-drop reorganization of model contents
- Primitives
This project has taken me about six months to complete, so I hope that you find
it to truly be LDraw for the Rest of Us. That’s not to say it’s perfect. My goal
in creating this program was to create a superb tool for instruction-creation,
and a usable 3D model viewer. In fact, I finished over three-quarters of the
source code before I actually drew a single pixel of LDraw. Consequently,
Bricksmith’s instruction-making tools are superb, but the model viewer is not
yet as pretty as Mac Brick CAD’s.
Bricksmith requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later,
and may be download it at http://bricksmith.sourceforge.net/.
So have fun,
all you Mac-loving Legophiles!
Sincerely,
Allen Smith
Camas, Washington
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| (...) Dang. Thank you... now I really *will* have to update my OS to Panther (I'm at 10.2 right now). Looking forward to it when I've got an updated system (or if you can back it down to 10.2). (19 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| (...) Only 6 months! You certainly have worked really hard! Congratulations :) I don't own a MAC but it's always good news when LDraw is lesser and lesser confined to the Microsoft world. Anyway i have seen the pretty screenshot, downloaded the (...) (19 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| (...) First, let me say: Great work, Allen! We Mac-using ALEs really appreciate efforts like this. Initial impressions: Wow -- an LDraw editor that I can just download and use! I didn't have to install anything extra or futz about with paths; I just (...) (19 years ago, 24-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| (...) Wow, my first impressions are that it is very cool. I poked it with a stick and here are some observations that I made... *I'd love to have preset views like other LCad programs (press 1, 2, 3... etc for different views of model) (...) (19 years ago, 25-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| Allen, Congratulations on your work, I had a quick look and you present some nice elegant and "Mac Like" solutions with a pleasant interface. Some competition might be what I need for me to make the time to further my own project. If you want some (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| (...) Congratulations Allen on getting a 1.0 version out the door so quickly! I've added a quick fix to my Converter at: <link(URL) so that it no longer chokes on the excessive amount of space-characters, Bricksmith generated LDraw-files can now use (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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