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Re: So what *IS* a Building Instruction anyway?
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lugnet.cad
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Tue, 23 Jul 2002 18:36:21 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Jacob Sparre Andersen writes:
> [ XFUT lugnet.cad ]
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> Steve Bliss wrote:
> > Sure -- I'd say an accurate ldraw file is a very detailed document,
> > specifying exactly what is in a model, and how it's put together.
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> Yes, but sometimes it is not exactly in an ideal form for
> the renderers we have at hand today. It would for example be
> practical, if it was possible:
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> * to tell the renderer that something ought to be
> rendered as a sub-assembly.
Hmm. LDAO can do this. Or, it used to be able to. In the HTML instruction
generator, it would scan for 0 SUB meta-statements in the main text. the 0
SUB line(s) would reference files that the HTML-IG would render as an inset
subassembly. I think the HTML-IG has been broken for awhile now...
> * to tell the renderer to show different steps
> from different angles.
MLCAD can do this, but you haven't read about it...
Both operations you mention would be very nice things to be able to do, as a
native feature of the LDraw modelling-language (as opposed to the LDraw
parts-language, both of which would be variations of the general LDraw
graphical description language).
Steve
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Message has 1 Reply:  | | Re: So what *IS* a Building Instruction anyway?
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| (...) If you get around to fixing it, then I would appreciate it, if you could seperate the code in operating system specific and non-operating system specific parts. Where is the syntax for the "SUB" meta-statements documented? Play well, Jacob (23 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad)
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