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Re: wishin' on a star
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lugnet.build
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Date:
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Wed, 7 Jul 2004 23:50:21 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Deborah Higdon wrote:
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now that i’ve got a new piece, how do i get it back into
mlcad to use it with other pieces?
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Deborah (and others)
I made this offer awhile ago but had no takers - what the heck, I’ll make it
again here.
If anyone has “wish list” parts they’d like to use in MLCAD but doesn’t
necessarily know how to author dat files, there’s another way to go. I can have
my CAD class model them in “regular” CAD software and then attempt to convert
them to dat.
First you must be able to provide me with:
a) CLEAR (to non AFOL) descriptions/dimensions and or
b) LDraw files of parts that the new parts are based on
I will then assign them to be modeled by my CAD students in AutoCAD, 3DS, or
SolidWorks.
From there it gets a little tricky... ;^)
I can take the resulting .dwg, .3ds, .stl or .dxf file and use one of the
various converters to make it into a .dat file. From there you can use it in
MLCAD.
BUT - here’s the messy part - there will be no conditional lines or primitives,
unless someone more familiar with LDraw decides to clean them up. Some parts
would probably clean up very easily, but I don’t know how to do this. If you
don’t mind this handicap (for example you just want to show how they could be
used with other parts) the parts will work fine in MLCAD.
If you would like me to try to model these parts, send me an email (try to put
LEGO in the subject heading so I don’t delete it by accident). Or reply on this
forum and we can work something out. Deborah’s parts don’t look very hard to
model at all.
Darrell Urbien
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Message is in Reply To:
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| (...) it's a 2x2x2. (...) unfortunately, i'm flying by the seat of my pants here. while i figured out how to go from mlcad drawing to jpg to photo-paint, i haven't figured out the reverse process. now that i've got a new piece, how do i get it back (...) (20 years ago, 7-Jul-04, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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