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Re: LDRAW Package format?
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lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev
Date: 
Mon, 9 Jan 2006 00:04:28 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Sven Moritz Hein wrote:
> > Hi Orion,
> > 
> > Thank you!
> > So I just need a good viewer for step-by-step instructions!
> 
> I'd say your best bet for that is likely MLCAD or LDGLite.  Not sure if LDGLite
> likes directories inside MPDs, but there's a reasonably good chance it will
> work.  On a related note, have you tried using LDGLite or LDView as the renderer
> in LPub?  Both of them produce results MUCH faster than L3P/POV-Ray, with
> LDGLite being the fastest.  Not sure how long it would take to render the
> pictures, or how big the resulting collection of images would be, but you might
> investigate that.

I forgot to mention that the above programs will of course only work if he
creates a directory somewhere that contains P and PARTS sub-directories, and
then sets that as his LDraw directory in MLCad and/or LDGLite.

--Travis



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  Re: LDRAW Package format?
 
(...) Exactly this is my problem. It is hard to explain all this to someone who has never heard of LDRAW. What I imagine is something like a (*.zip?)package containing the model file, the parts and the viewer. You just have to send this package per (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)

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  Re: LDRAW Package format?
 
(...) I'd say your best bet for that is likely MLCAD or LDGLite. Not sure if LDGLite likes directories inside MPDs, but there's a reasonably good chance it will work. On a related note, have you tried using LDGLite or LDView as the renderer in LPub? (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jan-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)

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