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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 18:11:30 GMT
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I have a plugin for SketchUp that can create LDraw parts. It can use LDraw
primitives and sub-parts, scale, move, and rotate them, and export a .dat file.
Here’s a page with some models I have imported:
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?tags=ldraw
Here’s the page for the plugin, with some (incomplete) documentation
http://jim.foltz.googlepages.com/su2ldraw
The basic workflow is:
* Import primitive or part.
* Move, rotate and scale the primitive/part
* Repeat.
* Export .dat file.
If you are not familiar with SketchUp, there is a learning curve. If you become
comfortable using SketchUp, you can create parts fairly quickly.
I do read this list and am glad to assist is any way I can.
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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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