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I'd like to make .DAT part files of 6 custom lego-compatible elements that I have designed and molded. They were created in Solidworks 2006. Is there a way to convert from that file directly to an Ldraw file? If not, is there an interim file type (...) (18 years ago, 16-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Creating a Catalogue of LDD Elements
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(...) As Ross mentioned, xsl is definitely the way to go for collecting the data. I actually started playing with the xml files a little while ago. Here's what I currently have: (URL) pretty basic at the moment, being just a static html page, but (...) (18 years ago, 16-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Well, seeing a challenge there, and not having used XSL before, I started working on a XSL solution :) Got something basic working, I'll let you know when I have something usable ;) ROSCO (18 years ago, 16-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Creating a Catalogue of LDD Elements
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(...) [...] (...) Good point Rosco... I noticed that file too, but that is way beyond my limited abilities :) Chris (18 years ago, 16-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Creating a Catalogue of LDD Elements
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(...) Another possibility is to write a program that grabs the info from the XML files. The available parts are listed in database/bricks/NNNN...ctory.tix, the table to convert the LDD colours to LDraw is in database/ldraw.xml Some of the part (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | MBC 3 (At very long last)
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MBC 3 finally after several years of development is available. Actually I've just been so busy at work that I haven't had time to write any code (the new tunnel is nearly complete now), so the application was initially started in 2004 and now in (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: LeoCad version 0.75
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(...) Hi, tankx for this offer but I'll wait for the next official update because meanwhile I found another (maybe unusual) way to move pieces in very fine steps: If a new piece is inserted and the "Angle Snap Toggle" button is not locked, shift (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad.leocad)
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| | Re: LeoCad version 0.75
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(...) You're right, I'll switch the front and back cameras. I'm just trying to get everything to be more consistent and easier to use. (...) This is a bug, I broke it while adding the new snap options but I've just checked in a fix. If you want I (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad.leocad)
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| | Re: Minifig generator for macosx?
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I hate GTK and I wouldn't want to offer a version with non native Win32 or OSX look, it's just too ugly and scares users. I've written a Linux GTK application at my previous job and ported it to Win32 later and I had terrible feedback from users, (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Creating a Catalogue of LDD Elements
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I prefer to design models using LDGlite instead of LDD, but constantly checking LDD for part availability is, well, troublesome. I usually wind up with one computer running LDD and the other running LDGLite just so I can look at the parts that are (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad)
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