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On the difficulty of making building instructions: Last sunday I spent most of the day (except for a few hours out in the snow) showing my cousins how to make - or should I say _draw_ - building instructions on a computer. Personally I use (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) BlockCad (and perhaps other programs) does some collision detection when moving the bricks to assist in the placement. You could enhance this by inventing a mouse that provides some tactile feedback (ala playstation controllers) when the (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Your Phd thesis is not about 3D CAD interfaces then I take it? (Which incidentally is an area of Computing Research if you know WHERE to look and ask..) (...) This sounds like a good technique... Audible feedback.. However my qyery is how easy (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
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Here's an idea I just tought of. If you make a blok with studs and studs* so you can either place a block freely or with it's stud* in a stud. just like in real life. It asures correct placement. Probably a dumb idea, but i'll hit send anyway. Koen (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
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I think I have a nice solution to the 3-dimensional movement. Depending on what side of the brick you mouse on, its movement is constrained. Style 1: you mouse on a brick's side, it's like you can only push or pull it in a straight line. Click on (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I think you've got it just right with this, Jacob. (...) One problem with LEGO is that people want to build by "clicking" pieces into place. Putting two bricks side by side doesn't count as building a model. So collision detection is just a (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) You mean that you manually code the LDraw DAT files? Wow, I'm impressed! Using Emacs+LDraw-mode would give the added advantage of colour coding via font-lock, which gives instant visual confirmation of the correctness of the syntax. It also (...) (24 years ago, 10-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
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