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| | | Dear all, as a novice to the idea of CAD, does anyone have advice about software to use to design models on computer prior to building them. I am thinking mostly of castles, and my attempts with Lego Creator have been very clunky and timeconsuming (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: modelling software —Frank Buiting
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| | | | | (...) For LEGO Cad stuff, LDraw is somewhat the standard among AFOLs. I can recommend MLCad if you're working on a windows platform, it's a LDraw compatible program. A lot of info about CAD programs for LEGO can be found at (URL) You can also find (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: modelling software —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) Creator is fun for blowing stuff up but is not really a "design" tool. As Frank B said, LDraw is the standard in the AFOL community, stick with LDraw compatible tools and you won't go far wrong. www.ldraw.org for what's available (all of this (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: modelling software —George Manousakis
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| | | | | (...) I would suggest MLCad for building your models (if you are using Windows) and L3P and PovRay to convert and render them if you want. PovRay is free from: www.povray.org If you are interested in building/rendering castles take a look at: (URL) (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: modelling software —Alan Gerber
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| | | | | (...) Yes, yes, MLCAD is an excellent with lotsa features like that you can spin around the model in te 3d view, like L3Lab. It's even good enough to have it's own section on the legomindstorms.com forums. It's real good. Alan (24 years ago, 25-Jun-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: modelling software —Anders Isaksson
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| | | | Alan Kershaw skrev i meddelandet ... (...) I must blow my own horn a little here: BlockCAD is very easy to use, and very fast to build with too. What other drawing program can handle a model with thousands of pieces, and still move? (Today I got a (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jun-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: modelling software —Selçuk Göre
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| | | | (...) LeoCAD?..:-) (...) Not in LeoCAD?..:-) (...) As in LeoCAD?..:-) Anyway... I'm just expressing my personal choice..:-) I appreciate all of you CAD programmers..:-) Selçuk (24 years ago, 9-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: modelling software —Anders Isaksson
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| | | | Selçuk Göre skrev i meddelandet <38F067C7.7F30CF9F@s...ne.com>... (...) As I have almost no experience with LeoCAD, I'm hardly in a position to recommend it (or not). As I understand it, though, LeoCAD uses it's own pieces, not the LDRAW .dat files (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jun-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: modelling software —Leonardo Zide
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| | | | (...) The files are converted from the LDraw format because of speed issues (LeoCAD is several times faster than any other LDraw program) and James asked me not to redistribute the original files in .dat format. You do have to spend some extra space (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jun-00, to lugnet.cad)
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