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Re: easy pattern creator?
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Mon, 26 May 2003 15:21:19 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Jan Folkersma writes:
> Hello,
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> I just started creating my own parts. First thing
> I'm trying, is to create the brick 1x4 with white
> "TRANSPORT" pattern on it, as is used in set 335
> of 1967.
> There already is a brick 1x6 with this pattern, so
> I thought easiest would be to change some parameters
> of that part (from 60 to 40)since the "TRANSPORT"
> pattern on the 1x6 brick already has the width of
> a 1x4 brick. Doing so was easy enough, but then it
> turned out that the pattern is not centered and not
> as wide as the pattern on the real thing.
> So I decided to edit the pattern. Because I'm fairly
> new at this, I never realised how complicated a
> pattern definition is. So I am wondering, isn't there
> a pattern-tool of some sort, a simple program that
> converts text into coordinates usable in LDDP?
A more general answer is that there is a pattern creator, quad2dat...
although the author seems to have stopped working on it and it has some
annoying bugs, it's very useful.
But in your specific situation you'd be starting over, so that's not a good
approach, since there already is a pattern that says what you want. I think
what you need to do is find the section of the dat file that has the pattern
and use that section, perhaps as a temporary subfile, in a brick 1x4...
Position it centered and you should be all set. You may then want to use an
inliner to undo the subfiling.
I'm not a very experienced author so others may be able to give you better
advice.
>
> tia,
> Jan Folkersma
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| (...) I'll try and look into that one. For the moment I'm totaly happy with Carsten Schmitz's "BMP2LDRAW32" which I found yesterday on the LDDP homepage. This coverts images into ldraw readable .dat files. (...) Carsten's neat little proggie has the (...) (22 years ago, 27-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| Hello, I just started creating my own parts. First thing I'm trying, is to create the brick 1x4 with white "TRANSPORT" pattern on it, as is used in set 335 of 1967. There already is a brick 1x6 with this pattern, so I thought easiest would be to (...) (22 years ago, 26-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
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