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Re: Any Interest in a Program for Creating/Editing Parts?
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lugnet.cad
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Mon, 4 Dec 2006 18:10:29 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Don Heyse wrote:
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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.
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Ah, yes. The answer to every question is “google.” :)
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- Ability to easily overlay a scaled/rotated wire-frame of the part over a scan of the actual part, to verify the proportions and provide “digital caliper” functionality.
- Ability to define one section of a symmetrical part, and have the program automatically generate the redundant portions at various angles. (I know you can manually do this in MLcad, and that you can mirror a design around the axes, but not so easy for designing a 3-blade propellor, for example.)
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Make sure you check out the discussion
about mirroring bits without using negative matrices. There were some tools
developed and a mirror.ini file but I’m not sure it’s exactly what you’re
looking for. At the very least, any mirroring tool should be able to add
an entry to the mirror.ini file.
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Thanks again! Lots of great info here.
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- Scripted generation of part definitions to simplify iterative design methods.
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Make sure to check out the
Ldraw Script Compiler
and LDS shell first.
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Unfortunately, LDS Shell is
another one of those broken links. The script compiler looks almost exactly
like what I had in mind, though.
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It looks like my project might make a good LDDP plug-in. I’ll consider that
as my best option moving forward.
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If you make an interactive part editor as an LDDP plug-in, consider also
making a simple wrapper program for it so you can run it in stand-alone
mode as well.
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Definitely. If possible, I would have this all wrapped into a single executable
file, but haven’t dug into the LDDP Plug-In SDK far enough to know yet.
Ah! The UPS guy just delivered my NXT. Time to switch contexts from .cad to
.robotics for a little while...
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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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| 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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