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Re: LPub Orientation and Half-Size LDraw files
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lugnet.cad
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Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:13:15 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Don Heyse wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> > One of the "features" of LPub is to create part list images and bill
> > of materials images, modeling those concepts found in LEGO building
> > instructions.
<snip>
> > I wish there was an easy way for people to update a global (in the
> > real world sense) version of orientation.ldr so that all could share
> > in the modifications of the file. I do not know of any easy way to
> > do this for non-programmers. Making the file available through a
> > source code control system makes sense for us programmers, but is it
> > a workable solution for non-programmers?
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> If you use the sourceforge, the files in CVS are automatically
> made available via http by the CVS web interface. I think a
> web page could be constructed that always points to the latest.
Yes, but I want all to be able to update it. Do you really think CVS is the
right thing to use for non-programmers?
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> > I want to write a little program to let me walk visually through
> > parts.lst and orientation.ldr, displaying a rendered image of the
> > part. The tool would then let you perform simple rotations and
> > rerender, until you are happy with the orientation. In the end, you
> > have a new orientation.ldr file for all the parts in your system.
> > However, this still leaves all the orientation process local for
> > each of us who invest in orientation.
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> You could do this by launching any of the viewers in polling mode.
Yes, I know that I can use the current viewers to display the rendered part, but
I still need a bit of code to modify the model for rerendering, and writing out
the new orientation file to disk, right?
Kevin
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