 | | Re: Any Interest in a Program for Creating/Editing Parts? —Chris Phillips
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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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| | | | | RE: Any Interest in a Program for Creating/Editing Parts? —William Howard
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| | | | | primitives - boxes, cylinders, discs, negative discs etc -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...ugnet.com] On Behalf Of Chris Phillips Sent: 03 December 2006 17:10 To: lugnet.cad@lugnet.com Subject: Re: Any (...) (18 years ago, 3-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | Re: Any Interest in a Program for Creating/Editing Parts? —Chris Phillips
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| | | | | | (...) Ok, thanks. When I think of primitives, I usually think of the lowest-level elements of the underlying graphics package. In this case, Line, Triangle, Quadrilateral, and Conditional Line. I thought things like Cylinder, Box, etc., being built (...) (18 years ago, 3-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Any Interest in a Program for Creating/Editing Parts? —Travis Cobbs
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| | | | | | (...) In LDraw, everything in the "P" directory is called a primitive. Many of them actually are geometric primitives, such as cylinder pieces and disc pieces. Others aren't, such as the stud primitives. But they're all referred to as primitives. (...) (18 years ago, 4-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: Any Interest in a Program for Creating/Editing Parts? —Don Heyse
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| | | | (...) This question comes up every so often, and I always like to (URL) point out> Paul Easter's (URL) utilities page>. It's got several nice utility programs and parts, and is loaded with great ideas on how to make the most of your screen real (...) (18 years ago, 4-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Any Interest in a Program for Creating/Editing Parts? —Chris Phillips
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| | | | (...) Thanks for that link! Very helpful for me, especially since many of the links to tools (both here in .cad and on ldraw.org) appear to be broken. (...) I am all for saving myself a lot of unneccesary effort, and I think that the existing tools (...) (18 years ago, 4-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Any Interest in a Program for Creating/Editing Parts? —Don Heyse
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| | | | In lugnet.cad, Chris Phillips wrote: Some features that I could see being useful are: Google is your friend. Some of these ideas have already been worked on. Make sure to run some searches before re-inventing. (...) Make sure you check out the (URL) (...) (18 years ago, 4-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Any Interest in a Program for Creating/Editing Parts? —Chris Phillips
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| | | | (...) Ah, yes. The answer to every question is "google." :) (...) Thanks again! Lots of great info here. (...) Unfortunately, (URL) LDS Shell> is another one of those broken links. The script compiler looks almost exactly like what I had in mind, (...) (18 years ago, 4-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Any Interest in a Program for Creating/Editing Parts? —Anders Isaksson
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| | | | (...) LDSSHELL (which I wrote) is only a visual shell, with a rudimentary LDRAW viewer, to the LDS program by Tore Eriksson which is the scripting engine (still maintained). Both can be found from his pages: (URL) links: (URL) miss the LDS syntax (...) (18 years ago, 4-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: Any Interest in a Program for Creating/Editing Parts? —Chris Phillips
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| | | | (...) Thanks for the updated links! The page listed in the earlier post appears to be out of date. (It has version 031 of LDS, and a broken link to your page.) It seems that there is a lot of great software already out there, which is not (...) (18 years ago, 4-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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