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  Lsynth problem  [DAT]
 
I installed Lsynth from the Power Tools CD, along with other related tools. MLCad, l3p, etc. all seem to run fine, but Lsynth does not. The symptoms are that after selecting input and output files, clicking the Synthesize button appears to do (...) (22 years ago, 17-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: Lsynth problem
 
(...) The command is 0 SYNTH not 0 LSYNTH. If you change the occurances of LSYNTH to SYNTH the program should work (it work on my WIn XP machine). -Orion (22 years ago, 17-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: Lsynth problem
 
(...) Thanks, silly of me! However, after making this correction, I still get the same behavior. I am not sure whether this is a clue or not, but the 'Browse' dialogs for both input and output files never show any existing files, even though they (...) (22 years ago, 17-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: Lsynth problem
 
(...) That's odd, it must be a problem with the GUI front end. I used the actual program, lsythcp, in the bin directory. BTW To Kevin, I've been meaning to post about this. I'm getting an error when I try to install LSynth. The error is as follows: (...) (22 years ago, 17-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: Lsynth problem
 
Bill, I recommentd trying the newest lsynth off my website (URL) (22 years ago, 17-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: Lsynth problem
 
<snip> (...) How many times do you have LDraw installed on that computer? LSynth tries to locate the LDraw directory by searching for MKLIST.exe. I need to get better at installation packages.... (...) Kevin (22 years ago, 17-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: Lsynth problem
 
In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague writes: <snip> (...) D'oh! I looked in my Zip File directory and found an LDRAW folder that I unzipped to extract the 0.27 Primitives and never deleted. LSynth installed fine after I removed the directory. -Orion (22 years ago, 18-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: Lsynth problem
 
(...) I don't know whether this is relevant, but I tried several times to install Lsynth 2 based on Kevin's recommendation, but the installer dies consistently trying to create the file ...\My Documents...LDRAW\PARTS. This is a bit strange, since (...) (22 years ago, 18-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: Lsynth problem
 
(...) Do a search for file named mklist.exe on your entire computer, and see how many copies you find. Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 18-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
 
  Re: Lsynth problem
 
(...) Bingo! A search revealed a second, older copy of LDRAW that I was keeping around for no good reason. After deleting it, LSynth installed correctly, and my sample .dat file now synthesizes perfectly! Thanks to Kevin and Orion! BTW, your (...) (22 years ago, 18-May-03, to lugnet.cad)

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