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Re: Getting into Lego CAD (was Re: S/973p40a.dat ???)
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Sun, 4 Nov 2001 17:47:47 GMT
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richard marchetti wrote in message ...
> What is already present in this side of the hobby is GREAT!!! But better
> documentation for existing stuff (for the unbelievably cryptic LDAO
> installation procedure maybe? I had to go back to LDraw.org and figure out
> what I wasn't getting.) and a more robust authoring tutorial is needed.
> To get into it right now, one has to be at least semi-tenacious or
> determined -- the way to proceed is not made clear. There are dead links
I sympathise with Richard. I've been using a combination of MLCad, LDLite
and LDAO to produce kit instructions for more than a year now and although I
can do the basic things I need pretty easily, any time I want to do
something different it's a struggle to work out how. There are all these
wonderful add-on or helper programs in existence, but if I decide I need to
do "X", it's pretty hard to work out what I need in order to do it.
Right now I'm trying to find out how to change the edge colors on my
printouts so they are clearer (eg change the edge color for red to black
instead of the pinkish color it is now) and although I have dug up various
snippets of info they don't yet add up to an answer.
Kevin
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Getting into Lego CAD (was Re: S/973p40a.dat ???)
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| (...) I can understand your frustration. The LDraw developer 'community' is pretty fluid, each person doing their own thing. So it's hard to get a cohesive grasp of everything, except by learning and using all packages. (...) With LDLite, you can (...) (23 years ago, 5-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: Getting into Lego CAD (was Re: S/973p40a.dat ???)
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| (...) Yes, all of the ldlite meta-command extensions (including the 0 COLOR command) used to be very neatly documented in the ldlite release notes for version 1.6. They have since disappeared from the internet and do not appear in the current (...) (23 years ago, 5-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Getting into Lego CAD (was Re: S/973p40a.dat ???)
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| (...) Soon perhaps... I don't yet think of myself as competent to do anything but play around with this stuff -- at least for now. I had one failed attempt to get into the CAD aspect of the hobby last year sometime, but have only truly begun to mess (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad)
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