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(...) If you have access to a *nix machine, or have installed the appropriate cygwin components on a Windows box, the following script should take a bunch of step files spit out from MLCad and insert the appropriate PREL3P commands in. #! /bin/sh (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Previous step color scaling
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(...) I tried the script out in Windows using cygwin, and it seems to work. Some observations: Until prel3p 1.3 is released by Jim, I can't be sure it works. The output is a mixture of DOS and Unix line endings. The files generated by MLCAD have DOS (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Previous step color scaling
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Here's a slightly tweaked version that seems to work OK with paths and filenames containing spaces: #! /bin/sh prevfile='' for thisfile in "$@"; do if "$prevfile" = "" ; then echo 0 !PREL3P -ldconfig normal.ldr > "faded.$thisfile" cat "$thisfile" >> (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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All previous posts look promising! If you guys could use your precious time to write some Windows tools to do things like executing the script and stuff I can't wait to try it out! (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | PreL3P 1.3
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I posted the new version of PreL3P today. The only addition, of course, is support for meta commands at any point in the model. (URL) commands at the beginning of the model are still "special" in that they override the default command line options. (...) (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: PreL3P 1.3 -help :)
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(...) ==== 8< - - - (...) Too busy with my latest project, I haven't tried PreL3P that much yet. I may have misunderstood the -help option, because I tried the v1.3.1 both from DOS Prompt Box as well as from a batch file, with same result: ---...--- (...) (17 years ago, 22-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) For what it's worth, that is the error message that version 1.1 would report given the -help argument. Otherwise, you appear to be using it correctly. Do either of the synonyms "-h" or "--help" work? I can't seem to reproduce the problem. (...) (17 years ago, 22-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I've added the ability to process multiple files in one run, but before I release that I'd like to check whether there's any more information regarding this -help issue. Can you confirm whether either of the alternate help options (-h or (...) (17 years ago, 25-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Just curious, how'd you end up implementing that? If I recall, unix shells will expand a *.ldr arg for you, but on Windows it's left to the program to do it. Don (17 years ago, 25-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Sorry, my wrong! I thought I used the latest version, but I didn't. All variants of the -help switch work on 1.3.1. Time to delete all outdated versions from my HD. :) /Tore (17 years ago, 25-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Ah, thanks for bringing that to my attention. I was not aware of the difference. My addition currently understands multiple arguments with this syntax: prel3p 1.ldr 2.ldr 3.ldr Each ldr file is processed in place and the originals are copied (...) (17 years ago, 25-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) No problem. Thanks for the clarification - I thought it was entirely possible that something else might have been intercepting the -help argument. Jim (17 years ago, 25-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Previous step color scaling
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And how can one create building instructions without access to a *nix machine (what is that anyway :-) and no cygwin components on a Windows PC? I am desperately looking for a way to create smooth building step images top view for a very large (...) (17 years ago, 30-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Previous step color scaling
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(...) Well, that's what LPub does, right? Anyway, PreL3P should work at a Windows DOS prompt (or whatever you call it), so the PreL3P-LDView technique we talk about here should be possible in Windows. The shell script does require unix or cygwin, (...) (17 years ago, 30-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Previous step color scaling
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(...) LOL! I know (ofcourse). I wrote it wrong. I ment: how can one use the script Travis provided to insert the PreL3P codes into the LDraw files :-) (...) No it won't be fun at all :-( (...) I am still a bit confused how to work things out with (...) (17 years ago, 30-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Try the following (assumes Win2K/WinXP): Download cygwin from (URL) (click the "Install or update now!" link) Run cygwin's setup.exe file that you downloaded Follow the instructions for a default install and choose a working mirror. (I used (...) (17 years ago, 31-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Or if you're really, really scared of cygwin, this StepFade.bat file might work on XP. But I didn't test it all that much, and I don't claim to know all the nuances of the old DOS fc and find commands. The unix diff and grep commands are so (...) (17 years ago, 31-Oct-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Me? Scared? No :-) I have succesfully installed Cygwin on my XP PC and Vista Laptop. After some errors and Travis helping me solve those, I am now able to run his script and create LDraw files with the PreL3P commands in them. Thanks for your (...) (17 years ago, 2-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | PreL3P 1.4
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PreL3P 1.4 can process multiple files. It understands wildcard characters, too, so you can easily process many files at once in environments that don't perform wildcard expansion automatically (ie, "prel3p *.ldr"). (URL) always, please report any (...) (17 years ago, 5-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: PreL3P 1.4
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(...) I've posted a Mac "Service" version, too. You put it in ~/Library/Services/, and then you can process any selected LDraw text by selecting "PreL3P" from the Services submenu of the current application menu. I haven't tested it much. Although (...) (17 years ago, 6-Nov-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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