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Re: The future of LDraw?
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lugnet.cad
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Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:01:54 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Joshua Delahunty wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Ross Crawford wrote:
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> > There is also LeoCAD, which has some great features MLCad doesn't have. It
> > sufferes from not being able to use the official parts library (directly), but
> > it's database is regularly updated.
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> > And as a bonus it's available for Linux too. I'm surprised someone hasn't tried
> > to build it for Mac, give Bricksmith a little friendly competition ;)
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> LeoCAD directly imports LDRAW parts. There's no need to wait for an update of
> its database. It is as simple as downloading from the parts tracker, and then
> importing into LeoCAD itself.
Yes that is correct, but importing the files is not using them directly, as most
other LDraw programs do. And for folks that have multiple parts folders, that
can make a big difference.
ROSCO
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| (...) I wanted to make sure people weren't turned away from LeoCAD because they might think they'd be dependent on third parties to provide a parts library, that's just not true, so people SHOULD check it out. It's certainly my LCAD tool of choice (...) (15 years ago, 21-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: The future of LDraw?
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| (...) LeoCAD directly imports LDRAW parts. There's no need to wait for an update of its database. It is as simple as downloading from the parts tracker, and then importing into LeoCAD itself. Some folks don't like to manage parts at that level, but (...) (15 years ago, 21-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)
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