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Re: converting SW assembly files to Ldraw??
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lugnet.cad
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Thu, 20 Mar 2003 19:13:53 GMT
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Hi Darrel
In lugnet.cad, Darrell Urbien writes:
> 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!
I totally agree!! Both programs have their own specific features, combining
in a way would be great!
> 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.
Thanks for the advise! I'll have a look.
> Have you created any exploded assembly animations of your models yet? They're
> really impressive!
Thanks again! No I did not try that (yet). First of all I don't have much
experience with animations. Second, when I try this I really don't know if
my model explodes... or my computer :))
Nathanael
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| (...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad)
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