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RE: Any Interest in a Program for Creating/Editing Parts?
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Sun, 3 Dec 2006 16:48:01 GMT
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If the program isn't capable of using primitives, any generated parts
are bound to get "Hold - use more primitives" votes/comments when/if
they are submitted to the Parts Tracker. So, without support for
primitives, which MLCad and other editing helper applications have, I
would have to question the overal usefulness of such a program
-----Original Message-----
From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway@lugnet.com] On Behalf
Of Chris Phillips
Sent: 03 December 2006 16:27
To: lugnet.cad@lugnet.com
Subject: Any Interest in a Program for Creating/Editing Parts?
I had in the past tried my hand (somewhat unsuccessfully) at creating
some new LDraw parts. I found the tutorials on ldraw.org to be helpful,
but I was surprised at how "manual" the process seems to be. (Edit the
file in Notepad?
Seriously??) Being a software geek, I found it easier to write a C
program to transform coordinates and use printf() statements to write
the .DAT file. This made it a lot easier to define cylinders and arcs,
and to create pieces with a lot of symmetry. (Yes, I know I should be
using sub-parts, but I'm still getting the hang of it.)
I recently took a fresh look at this code and tried to at least finish
coding up a part. Growing tired of the process of switching
back-and-forth between my program and (the very awesome) LDView, I added
rudimentary graphics to show the general shape of the part on screen as
it was being generated. Then it struck me that the program could evolve
into an interactive part editor without a whole lot of effort.
So I am wondering if there would be any interest in a program like this,
or would I be re-inventing functionality that is already provided
somewhere else? For example, I see that one of the tutorials mentions
using MLcad to rotate primitives and do some of the other heavy lifting
required for authoring parts. I don't want to spend a lot of time
polishing this program for public release unless there is an actual
need.
Any thoughts?
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| (...) When you say "primitives", do you really mean "sub-parts?" (Or do I have it backwards?) To be clear, I would plan to fully support the use of sub-parts, as well as the ability to copy/paste portions of pre-existing part definitions. This (...) (18 years ago, 3-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Any Interest in a Program for Creating/Editing Parts?
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| I had in the past tried my hand (somewhat unsuccessfully) at creating some new LDraw parts. I found the tutorials on ldraw.org to be helpful, but I was surprised at how "manual" the process seems to be. (Edit the file in Notepad? Seriously??) Being (...) (18 years ago, 3-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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