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Re: Dancing Mech Modeling/animatino LDraw/POV-Ray Video Tutorial Series
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lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac
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Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:15:53 GMT
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> Hi, me again! Just started watching the first Bricksmith video and
> I noticed you
> pointed out something that's always bugged me - how the part
> browser matches
> spaces literally. I guess the LDraw part descriptions all reserve
> two characters
> for each dimension, so there's an extra space for single digit
> dimensions. The
> good news is that I've written a wee addition to the Bricksmith
> code that
> addresses this, so if I type "Brick 2 x 4" it will now find the
> part whose
> description is "Brick 2 x 4". Of course I will be sharing these
> and other
> minor tweaks with Allen so that others can benefit too. (I'm
> learning Cocoa
> programming as I go, so the pace and scope of my contributions will
> be modest.)
Wow, cool! I believe I sent that request to Allen too. I know a
little Cocoa but am bad with large projects, so I haven't attempted
to actually make any of the feature requests I've sent him.
> Another cool thing that's already in Bricksmith is that you can
> paste LDraw text
> directly into it without using an external editor. Likewise, if you
> copy a model
> or some parts from Bricksmith, it'll paste as text into other
> applications. You
> may mention this later on but I mention it now after seeing the
> crosshair bit.
Great comment. Actually, I was hoping to put information like this
in the "Addendum" sections. I'm flying by the seat of my pants,
completely unscripted and unrehearsed, so I'm sure I'll say something
wrong as well.
> Anyway, good stuff! I hope it encourages more people to start
> LDrawing, and to
> follow "best practices" while they're at it.
Heck yeah! Then it will be much easier to share models. I've had
too many show-stopper problems trying to use other people's models.
James
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