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OK, you had me going there for a second. I started a thread looking for CAD-DAT file converters and I thought you had one! (...) I'm curious how this works (if it's true). Are you guys modeling in commercial 3D software and then using some level of (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) If the other translators (3DWin, MAX2DAT, STL2DAT) wind up as dead ends, I would definitely be interested. What do you have so far? The major hang ups for the other two are edge lines and primitives. What do your converted parts look like? (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Excellent point, and one I hadn't considered. I suppose I can just out and out ask him if he minds AFOL using the demo version only, especially since they would be helping him debug the product. He's aware that most LDraw related software is (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad)
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Dear Code-gods, I'd like to thank you for all the little progs and tools you have created throughout the years. Authoring a part today has become much easier than a year ago, but... Guys there's always a "but", I get seasick from jumping from one (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Wow even better feedback! Keep it comming I'll discuss both versions - Cocoa and Carbon / Classic Firstly Cocoa Load times, I concur they are much slower (compared to the Carbon version), especially a model of 800+ lines of code, at this stage I (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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Hi Darrell, My point was that asking people to help someone develop their commercial software is somewhat of a bold proposition. However, I did not know that 3Dwin had a free version with batch-convert de-activated and that is something worth (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad)
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I have been meaning for a while now(about a year) to announce the start of my Lego technic renderings. I have one completed and am in the middle of a second (which I can no longer render because the polycount is too high for my machine to complete!) (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.announce) !
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(...) The short answer to this question is, in most cases, yes The long answer is most converters do not have significant enough primitive detection to submit a part immediately after conversion. For example, STL2DAT detects cylinders, sort of, but (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Measuring load and display times using the menu bar clock. To load and display the dat for my caboose took 15 seconds in MLM and 3 seconds to load and display the dat in LDV 0.4.2. (...) I know it is, but I still have a hard time accepting (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) No, but this is one of the good things about posting onto Lugnet - I'm learning about all of these other translators. I guess the final test is: Can the parts authored in XX software and converted through YY converter be accepted as official (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) liked to call him "The Ice Planet Kid". (...) I seem to remember that some early Divers sets had the Ice Planet head. 'Early' as in a few heads accidently got mixed in, or they were using up left-over supplies. I've never been able to (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Have you tried MAX2DAT at all? (...) Have you tried DAT2DXF for this? (...) I too would like a 2 way program as using 2 different progs is time consuming and inaccurate. (Hmm... sounds like a project I could work on) -Orion (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Let me clarify this statement - When I was originally looking at file converters, I was specifically looking for .dat to .dxf converters so I could use LDraw parts for reference in AutoCAD. There are a couple of these linked through LDraw.org. (...) (22 years ago, 24-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) format and use STL2DAT converter. (...) I haven't had great success converting files from AutoCAD - perhaps I'm doing something wrong? It could also be a fault with Autodesk's .stl converter. Also do you mind me pointing Thomas to your site? I (...) (22 years ago, 24-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hi Tim, First of all, the demo version is free. With it, you can convert as many files as you want (you just have to do them one at a time, and you don't get the pretty preview images). It's up to your conscience whether you decide to upgrade (...) (22 years ago, 24-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) snip (...) Hi Miguel, I've been discussing this with your co-author Kevin Clauge about this as well (BTW, I'm enjoying your book very much!). Let me try to clarify my position if I can.. I'm not trying to say EVERYONE should be using 3DWin. (...) (22 years ago, 24-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Sure...not a problem. I don't get a chance to do much here anymore, but after BricksWest, and some good LDraw convos, I'm more pumped than ever to get a Mac LDraw utility completed. (...) Not here. (...) No one told me how/where to do so (At (...) (22 years ago, 24-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) If you're using OpenGL, you should be able to call glFinish to force the drawing to complete. The glFinish command blocks until all previous OpenGL commands have completed. Do NOT call this command except at the very end of you frame, because (...) (22 years ago, 24-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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Thanks for the feedback guys, It’s good to see that the program does run – and no reported crashes? I will answer some of the comments first, Matt – not all parts are drawing; have you set the Ldraw folder location in “Preferences” yet? Matt – part (...) (22 years ago, 24-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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[ FUT lugnet.cad ] (...) You should make sure that all the sub-model files for the file are included. One way to do that is to use a MPD building tool. Preferably you should make sure the web server you use identify the file as being of the type (...) (22 years ago, 24-Feb-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.cad, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.general)
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