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Re: What's your current project?
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lugnet.build
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Thu, 1 Oct 1998 06:26:51 GMT
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On Thu, 1 Oct 1998 00:24:25 GMT, Paulo Caparica Junior
<paulocjunior@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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> 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:
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> http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Zone/7714/v004.gif
> http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Zone/7714/m01-12.gif
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> Although everything is 2D I can use transparency and overlay the pieces.
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> And since Corel is a vector editor, the whole thing is his res, and
> prints
> good.
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 converter. Wow.
Are you planning on releasing a "parts pack" eventually of all
the pieces in whatever vector format you end up saving them in? It
would be so cool to use something I'm familiar with, like Corel, to
make instructions for MOC's and print them on our color laser at work.
Very cool.
:)
Mike
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| (...) Sure thing, I have an older version of the parts pack at my Tripod page: (URL) library I am using now is very confuse, so I am adjusting the file names to match that of Ldraw. Paulo (26 years ago, 30-Sep-98, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 1-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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