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Re: LDD vs LDraw
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lugnet.cad
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Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:42:09 GMT
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Chris Phillips wrote:
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> I think if there
> was an easy way to define a "virtual parts bin" and share these with
> others as a separate file, it would be a very useful feature.
> Depending on what I'm trying to design on any given day, it would be
> nice to just select a parts palette with a certain organization and
> start building. It shouldn't be necessary to completely re-configure
> the entire CAD program just to do this kind of thing for each
> project.
The simplest way would be if peeron.com could serve a set inventory as an
LDraw file - then you just load the set into MLCad and rearrange the pieces.
As a side note, LDList (http://web.telia.com/~u16122508/ldlist.htm) has the
possibility to load a set description and only show those parts that are
contained in that set (not in any 'standard' format, though, it was made a
long time ago). LDList also allows you to drag a piece from LDList to any
other window that supports the LDList D&D protocol, and it will be removed
from the inventory (dragging it back adds it back to the inventory).
Unfortunately, no CAD program has implemented the LDList D&D protocol,
AFAIK.
--
Anders Isaksson, Sweden
BlockCAD: http://web.telia.com/~u16122508/proglego.htm
Gallery: http://web.telia.com/~u16122508/gallery/index.htm
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Message has 1 Reply: | | Re: LDD vs LDraw
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| (...) Yeah, I did this in ldglite a while back. You paste the peeron inventory in the ldglite window (with a ctrl-V in ledit mode) and it arranges the parts in a spiral so you can move them around and build the set. It's kinda fun, but a bit slow (...) (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) That doesn't surprise me; most of what I know about MLcad was learned by trial-and-error. (...) I must be doing something wrong, but whenever I place a new part it seems to appear in an arbitrary location in one plane, and doesn't "snap" to an (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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