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My ideal Part-Authoring-Application (PAA)
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Tue, 25 Feb 2003 21:13:43 GMT
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Dear Code-gods,
I'd like to thank you for all the little progs and tools you have created
throughout the years. Authoring a part today has become much easier than a
year ago, but... Guys there's always a "but", I get seasick from jumping
from one application to the other. I really seek one big, fat, all-inclusive
prog and in dark, gloomy nights I dream of an authoring tool like this:
* It has MLCad's GUI with a 4-panes-drawing-area, a primitive-preview-pan
and a status bar with coordinates while the...
* List of the used triangles, quads, comments ... looks like LDDP, with the
colored triples and colored line-types. Not to mention that the color number
is shown in the related color.
* It shows parts with smooth, rounded surfaces like LDView and you can turn
off all the different high-quality-settings in the toolbars.
* It should "draw to seletion only" at your wish and offer L3Lab's "mytest6"
views.
* It moves, rotates, snaps to grid (to make it short "mlcadds") and also
stores your update-header in its LDDP-contextual-menu.
* Your killer-application performs L3p -check (-dist, -det) and autofixes
the warnings like LDDP does it on the bad-vertex-sequence.
* This prog fixes concave quads or suggests solutions in a LDView-style.
* Quads, quads? Let me see. Max2Dat's help-files says " All triangular faces
created in MAX are parsed, paired whenever possible and combined to form
.DAT quads to help minimize the size of the output file". Guys ... I
definitely need such a feature.
* "Created in MAX"??? Of course ... most of the authors take advantage of
professional cad-modeller. Therefore our all-inclusive prog supports
in/export for: dxf, 3ds, ai (just for me), lwo, lws, stl ... any rhino-,
maya-, cinema4D-user out there. (I bet Tore will include his Lws4Bryce ...
right?)
* My ideal PAA rewinds polygons like Niel's LDDP-Plugin or fixes them
automatically like Zanette's WINDZ.
* I'm no longer willing to waste time on cond. lines. A plugin like Lummox
JR's Edger has to do the job an I'll decide if it has done a good job.
* My gold-colored submodels are handled in a MPD-MLCad-way. Past'n'copy at
your fingertips.
* Last but not least: It connects do the PT and submits your part - but
(there's always a "but") I would consider this as an optional and could
happily live without it.
Hmm ... 25th of February ... guys there is plenty of time left 'til x-mas.
What are you waitin' for... ROFL
Ciao, W.
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Message has 4 Replies:
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| OK, you had me going there for a second. I started a thread looking for CAD-DAT file converters and I thought you had one! (...) I'm curious how this works (if it's true). Are you guys modeling in commercial 3D software and then using some level of (...) (21 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
| | | Re: My ideal Part-Authoring-Application (PAA)
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| (...) I too get seasick, but the application of my dreams looks very different from your, because I think I have a very different approach. Currently, I can't think of authoring parts with using for example 1D- and 3D-variables, so I always start (...) (21 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
| | | Re: My ideal Part-Authoring-Application (PAA)
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| (...) I don't agree :-) As a closed project, it would never get finished (too much for one person) As an open project, it would never get finished (too many different opinions) I think the model of LDDP plugins is the way to go. Standardized (...) (21 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
| | | Re: My ideal Part-Authoring-Application (PAA)
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| On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 21:13:43 GMT, "Willy Tschager" <willy.tschager@tin.it> wrote: I have the following approach I first modelize the part with a commercial 3D Cad tool : Solidworks, then I export the STL file and convert it to dat with STL2DAT. (...) (21 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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