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Re: converting SW assembly files to Ldraw??
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lugnet.cad
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Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:53:05 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Nathanael Kuipers writes:
> Hi all,
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> A question: I've made a big assembly of a MOC technic sportscar in Solidworks.
> (Before I knew there is the existence of MLcad and LEOcad.)
Welcome to the club! You'd be surprised how many CAD users model LEGO using
other systems and then later find out about LDraw. There's no constraints or
assembly mates in LDraw though - at least not yet - so you probably won't be
leaving SW anytime soon. At least not for modeling/rendering/animation. The
LDraw family has really nice apps for instruction generation as you said. Plus
it would be nice to not have to model every part!
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=35660
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> Is there any program that can convert such files to Ldraw??
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> It would be very nice because .dat, .mpd files can be exchanged quite easily
> and I can produce an instruction manual in a shorter time period.
> (And because of the file size my computer probably won't crash in Ldraw that
> often as it does in Solidworks.)
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> A new lugnet writer Nathanael
Um, now welcome to another club, the one made up of frustrated CAD users who'd
like more direct LDraw compatibility... }-(
I started another thread about this earlier (do a search for 3DWin). There are
links to other converters there. You'd probably have more success with STL2DAT,
which was created by a SolidWorks user. I'd be interested to know how it
handles really large assemblies.
Have you created any exploded assembly animations of your models yet? They're
really impressive!
Darrell
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| Hi Darrel (...) I totally agree!! Both programs have their own specific features, combining in a way would be great! (...) Thanks for the advise! I'll have a look. (...) Thanks again! No I did not try that (yet). First of all I don't have much (...) (22 years ago, 20-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| Hi all, A question: I've made a big assembly of a MOC technic sportscar in Solidworks. (Before I knew there is the existence of MLcad and LEOcad.) (URL) there any program that can convert such files to Ldraw?? It would be very nice because .dat, (...) (22 years ago, 17-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad)
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