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(...) Déjà vu: (URL) goes to show there's always more than one way to peel a cat. Jim (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) There's an even better "poor man solution" at the bottom of this page: (URL) axis are labeled in addition to the color coding. You can see what it looks like in an old version of LDView on the "part in process" screenshot. Enjoy, Don (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Seems reasonable. Please note that I'm now actively using SourceForge.net's Tracker for LDView bug reports and feature requests. I entered this one here: (URL) can enter a bug report or feature request (without having to first create a (...) (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) You're fast! :) If my memory serves my well, I think my ldfilter utility did that - even though it wasn't its main purpose. Check out the "Color Filter" frame. (URL) (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDView feature request [DAT]
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(...) That'd be useful. Here's my "poor man's solution": 0 FILE XYZ.ldr 2 4 -1000 0 0 1000 0 0 2 2 0 -1000 0 0 1000 0 2 1 0 0 -1000 0 0 1000 0 NOFILE Scale to suit. Jim (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) With a customized ldconfig file, you can use PreL3P to convert color codes directly to the hexadecimal equivalents of other other colors. For example, here are the default gray definitions: 0 !COLOUR Gray CODE 7 VALUE #C1C2C1 EDGE 0 0 !COLOUR (...) (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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I can not find a possibility to show the axes in a model or a part in the way that I can do with L3Lab with "View" - "Show Axes". Because I use LDView a lot for reviewing parts it would be very helpful to have such a feature also in LDView. cu (...) (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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PreL3P 1.1 is now available: (URL) Added a "done" announcement that includes a summary of how many lines and colors were modified. * Added an alternate usage syntax. Given the name of a single file, PreL3P updates it in place and creates a backup of (...) (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Here's a page that shows the 800x600 image in front of various backgrounds (including yellow and black warning stripes): (URL) --Travis (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) You can always make your own "include file" with colour redifinitions in a .dat, like this experimental file I made some time ago. It redifines pink into medium blue and corrects the horrible L3 light green: To use it, all you have to do is (...) (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Well yes, it would, and it would surely have had its advantages to leave the "source" file completely untouched. But I think it would be even better do like I suggested, with the implementation towards L3PAO (and my own LDA application) in (...) (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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It would be interesting to be able to have a secondary remap file other than LDraw.ldr. For example, stone colors are not well supported by several programs other than L3P. If I want to build with these colors I generally use old greys, but it would (...) (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thanks! I'm glad you find it useful. Your list of L3-supported colors was instrumental as a good default behavior. (...) I am pleased to hear it works well on Windows. Good suggestion regarding the done message. I'll add one. (...) Neat. That (...) (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Fantastic piece of software, just what I've been looking for. Thanks Jim! I just can't believe your post isn't highlighted, but I guess it has to do with bad timing; all attention on LDraw.org committee elections... I've tried the Windows (...) (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) I think it's really good. Maybe you should ship LDView with an "instructions" preference set configured for this kind of output! Jim (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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Well, as of 0135 PDT, lugnet.cad.ray is at the top of the 24-hour column of the LUGNET Traffic Report (with 18 posts, vs. 12 for the next group). That makes me feel good. :-) (This is the only thread in the group that has had any posts in the last (...) (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) OK, I played around with this tonight for a few hours, and finally came up with something that I think I'm happy with. It requires 3 passes of the transparent polygons (just during snapshot save with SaveAlpha enabled), but it seems to get (...) (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) To me, the reasons are mainly "historical": the first way to get better images than the output of Ldraw/MLCad/LeoCAD (which is not that bad for instructions!) was POV-Ray. L3PAO then LPub did a lot to push POV as the renderer of choice. Add to (...) (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) A very important point - I didn't even noticed that the vehicle roof was grey, not white! (...) That's the main problem of LDD generated instructions: no edges... Philo (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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(...) It'll be there in the next release. (...) Actually, if you look you will see that parts of it are somewhat transparent (like the left edge of the windscreen). All of it that has the background visible through transparent parts is supposed to (...) (17 years ago, 9-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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