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Re: What's your current project?
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lugnet.build
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Thu, 1 Oct 1998 00:24:25 GMT
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Mike Stanley wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Sep 1998 13:31:20 GMT, Paulo Caparica Junior
> <paulocjunior@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > Lego related stuff:
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> > a> Writing a Autocad to Ldraw converter
> > b> Updating to Ldraw to DXF converter
> > e> Drawing building instructions in Corel Draw
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> Hrmmm.... this is going to sound dumb because I am almost certain you
> mentioned this before. I would check myself but I don't have Corel 8
> installed right now.
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> Can Corel Draw import DXF files? I assume that's what you would do if
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> you wanted to make building instructions given the fact that you've
> already made a LDraw to DXF converter.
Yes, of course.
What I do to make a piece is:
1- Convert from Ldraw to DXF
2- Open it at AutoCAD
3- Chose an isometric view
4- Print to a DXB vetor file
5- Import the vector file back in AutoCAD
(now I have a two-dimension version of a 3D object)
6- Edit and clean it up at AutoCAD
7- Export it again as DXF
8- Import in CorelDRAW
9- Assign colors and do a final clean up
It sounds complex, but is not. I already converted about 300 pieces
this way, and the instructions are much cleaner than that made with
Ldraw. Take a look at:
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Zone/7714/v004.gif
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Zone/7714/m01-12.gif
Although everything is 2D I can use transparency and overlay the pieces.
And since Corel is a vector editor, the whole thing is his res, and
prints
good.
Paulo
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| (...) Paulo, I tell you, guys like you amaze me. I hope you know how much I and others appreciate all the effort you put into this kind of stuff, especially when you do it and just give it away like you did with your brick generator and ldraw2dxf (...) (26 years ago, 1-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| Paulo Caparica Junior wrote in message <3612CBB9.DB71FB9A@h...il.com>... (...) I'm attempting to write a program that will convert an ldraw file into several smaller ldraw files, and then convert each of those files in povray files via LP3(1) It'll (...) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) Hrmmm.... this is going to sound dumb because I am almost certain you mentioned this before. I would check myself but I don't have Corel 8 installed right now. Can Corel Draw import DXF files? I assume that's what you would do if you wanted to (...) (26 years ago, 30-Sep-98, to lugnet.build)
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