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Re: help! trying to pose mini-fig arms
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lugnet.cad
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Wed, 15 Dec 1999 00:19:36 GMT
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Jeff Boen <onyx@flash.net> wrote in message news:FMr3pu.4DK@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.cad, Franklin W. Cain writes:
> > (It renders OK with _LDLite_, though...)
> >
> > How do I convert the LDAO "DAT" file
> > into a format acceptable to LDraw?
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> right.. LDLite supports the new META command language.. but it was invented
> after LDraw...
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> to convert the model to standard LDraw format you need to run LDLite on the
> model with the -R switch.. you have to do this at the DOS command line.. • here's
> the part of the LDLite documentation that covers it..
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> 5. Converting to LDRAW syntax. To maintain backwards compatibility as much • as
> possible, LDLITE can be used to convert a file to LDRAW *.dat syntax. While
> COLOR commands are simply ignored, and direct colors will cause LDRAW to • choke,
> all other commands (names, nested transforms) can be converted • successfully.
> The syntax for converting a file with extended syntax (e.g. named
> "extended.dat") to one using just LDRAW syntax (e.g. named "oldstyle.dat") • is:
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> . ldlite -roldstyle.dat extended.dat
This doesn't work in the most recent version of LDLite. You would have to
get an earlier version.
-John Van
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 | | Re: help! trying to pose mini-fig arms
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| (...) grrr.. that's right... i haven't used this switch in a while... forgot that 1.6 broke it... and i don't have a copy of 1.5 that i can send... anyone out there have the 1.5 release of LDLite, or a location where it can be DL'd???? J (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: help! trying to pose mini-fig arms
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| (...) right.. LDLite supports the new META command language.. but it was invented after LDraw... to convert the model to standard LDraw format you need to run LDLite on the model with the -R switch.. you have to do this at the DOS command line.. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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