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Re: My ideal Part-Authoring-Application (PAA)
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lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev
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Wed, 26 Feb 2003 06:39:30 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Willy Tschager writes:
> Dear Code-gods,
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> 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:
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 out in LDSShell. But instead of the built-in
preview pane, I use one or two L3Lab windows, usually on a separate monitor.
When I made 98% of the modelling, I change to LDDP to make the corrections
necessary.
How would I wish my ideal PAA to be? All-in-one, yes of course. And also
very, very easy to personalize. Settings should be easy to import/export.
(=using ldraw.ini instead of that %*## registry I guess?)
> * It has MLCad's GUI with a 4-panes-drawing-area, a primitive-preview-pan
> and a status bar with coordinates while the...
As long as you can toggle that ppp off, I wouldn't mind. I use a printed
version of the reference.
> * It shows parts with smooth, rounded surfaces like LDView and you can turn
> off all the different high-quality-settings in the toolbars.
I'm not sure I even want a built-in previewer.
> * It should "draw to seletion only" at your wish and offer L3Lab's "mytest6"
> views.
I already have that. :o) As long as I'm in LDS, I just enter an END
statement, or if I want to skip something, I just use GOTO. As I do all the
previewing in L3Lab, I have all goodies L3Lab offers.
> * Your killer-application performs L3p -check (-dist, -det) and autofixes
> the warnings like LDDP does it on the bad-vertex-sequence.
Yes, please!
> * This prog fixes concave quads or suggests solutions in a LDView-style.
Mmmm. Yummy.
> (I bet Tore will include his Lws4Bryce ... right?)
Sure - if it were mine... :o/
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> * My ideal PAA rewinds polygons like Niel's LDDP-Plugin or fixes them
> automatically like Zanette's WINDZ.
If it is fool-proof, yes. I have no experience from it.
> * 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.
Yet another tool I haven't even heard of...
> * 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.
Not without a prompt! :o)
- - -
Maybe I can learn to live without LDS, the MIRROR, EXTRUDE, GOSUB,
FOR-TO-NEXT and all that stuff I've gotten used with - but only if I can use
variables! I will not turn back to entering the coordinates by hand, no
matter what a new PAA may offer.
/Tore
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