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(...) Yes, LDGLite or LDView (both available for OS X). This renderers can produce very good rendering at high resolutions. -Orion (19 years ago, 28-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Oh Joe, what a can of worms that is. You're absolutely right that POV-Ray is useless for instructions. It's very nice for the picture on the front of the box, but it doesn't outline edges. The good news is that there is a solution. The (...) (19 years ago, 28-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Thank you for the compliments, Andrew. I've admired Mac Brick CAD for a long time, and I'm impressed by all the work you've put into behind-the-scenes operation. I do Cocoa programming at work, but I have no professional experience with (...) (19 years ago, 28-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Mac OS X is case-insensitive. It is possible to get a case-sensitive file system, but the user would have to know what they are doing and many things would break. I remember some old LDraw apps being written case senstive so that if it was one (...) (19 years ago, 27-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) ImageMagick is available for OS X, but it isn't installed by default. And I think it requires X11, which also isn't installed by default. ftp://ftp.imagemagic...k/binaries (19 years ago, 27-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Yes, exactly. The LDraw file is case-insensitive so the onus is on the programmer to provide for this on case sensitive OS's -Orion (19 years ago, 27-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I don't have a Mac, but if your file system is case sensitive (like most Unix file systems are), then that might be the cause of the problem. LDraw files assume a case-insensitive file system, or an application that's smart enough to deal with (...) (19 years ago, 27-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) If you ever get ambitious, LDView has automatic tiling support built in to generate images of arbitrary size. You can take a look at my tiling code (although it's pretty spread out, which might make it difficult to track down all of it). (...) (19 years ago, 27-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) I do have the parts that came with the Bricksmith download. I placed the folder in the /Library directory. I believe I have set both applications to look at that location. After some further experimenting, I have now found some files that (...) (19 years ago, 27-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Should be pretty close, they share the same codebase. However I think some opengl implementations may limit your canvas to a bit less than infinite for ldglite. I think you get pretty good antialiasing just by scaling by 2 or 3. Here are some (...) (19 years ago, 27-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Um, sorta, kinda. I think it always handled them when they were in "quotes", but now I fixed up at least the L3 parser to deal with the new MLCad and BrickSmith style without the quotes. However, I've got to learn lex and yacc to modify the (...) (19 years ago, 27-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Sounds like it can't find the parts. For ldglite, you can use the instructions here. For BrickSmith, I suspect your best bet is to use the one that comes with the parts. (URL) luck, Don (19 years ago, 27-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Ah. I was using cvs -d:pserver:anonymous...bricksmith checkout bricksmith instead of cvs -d:pserver:anonymous...bricksmith checkout Bricksmith (19 years ago, 27-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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It is good to see new LDRAW applications (Bricksmith 1.0, LDGLite 1.1.18) coming out for the Mac. However, I can't seem to get either of them to display some of the .dat files I've collected from various sources. I have viewed them using MLCad on a (...) (19 years ago, 27-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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LDGLite 1.0.18 for OS X is now available at (URL) the especially lazy among us... (URL) include... Model and camera can be moved in edit mode. LDGLite will now properly handle spaces in ".ldr" file names, right? What else Don? I haven't been paying (...) (19 years ago, 27-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Yeah, it's probably about time. Plus it looks like the embedded spaces in filenames issue is about to hit it big. You'll have to fetch the latest code (1.1.18) to get the fix for that one. (...) Err, I know I can't... Don (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) LDGLite 1.0.12 came through fine for me, but that also reminds me that we(I) haven't added any info to the known issues since I have found more issues, and we(I) haven't rolled a new OS X version in a while. I am actually using 1.0.15 (I (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Right. Set the lines REALLY fat, render REALLY huge, then shrink the image which gives you nice antialiasing effects... LDLite now lets you set infinite canvas How closely does LDGLite mimic the switches/flags, etc? (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) If you don't have ImageMagick for OS X yet, I imagine you will soon. It wouldn't surprise me if it's already there though as it might be installed with the underlying *nix OS programs. Tim (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Can you post the file? Otherwise it's kinda hard to tell... (...) Thanks, and with the FatLines ™ trick Larry mentioned you should be able to get even prettier output for publishing instructions, although I've never actually tried it on OS X. (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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So, I got LDGLite working on my Mac, and dragged a file made with Bricksmith onto it. This file has a subassembly (submodel?). LDGLite renders nicely, except that my submodel doesn't appear where it should be on the final model; instead it's sitting (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Hmm, now that you mention it, it looks like I got 147456 bytes the first try, and 94208 bytes the second — I should have thought to look whether it's the same size. In both cases Firefox thought the download was complete. It was an extremely (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) I could email you a copy, but first I'd like to see what's wrong with the download and fix that. I just grabbed it from the sourceforge link and it seems to unpack ok here (on a Windows box :^) The .gz file is supposed to be 613774 bytes. How (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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At Larry's suggestion, I'm trying to get LDGLite (for OS X, in my case). The (URL) LDGLite page> provides a link to an (URL) OS X app bundle>, but I've downloaded it twice now, and both times it fails to unpack, saying: "gunzip: (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Look into the MegaPOV enhancement, I think that adds edge lines. (that's about all I know, I render using LDLite with fat edge lines configured in when I am doing instructions. I THINK maybe LDGLite supports that too? not sure) Hope that (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Thanks, Anton. I tried your converter the other day, and it gave me blank files, so I gave up on it and just downloaded L3D (which worked fine). But now I'll give your converter another try too. Incidentally, though, I don't find POV-Ray (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Yep! (...) Yes, (URL) Meshwork>. I also wrote a little mini-LEGO-CAD program in (URL) once. In fact, I think you'll find it among the 3D examples that come with REALbasic. (...) Alas, no, though it would really be just a recompile. But then (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) It's already there in the CVS archive. Check out the (URL) SourceForge project page> by clicking on the link at the bottom left of the bricksmith homepage. Then scroll down to the (URL) Browse CVS> link if you just want to take a peek. The (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) source code there? I would be interested in checking it out. James (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Joe, I just checked your webpage. You work for REAL? That is a hoot! I once looked at REALbasic. This is all very interesting. You have a 3d modeler that exports to POV-Ray??? And Brickball looks like it might be cool... Do you have an OS X (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Oh man.... that is just cruel!!! Chris (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Congratulations Allen on getting a 1.0 version out the door so quickly! I've added a quick fix to my Converter at: <link(URL) so that it no longer chokes on the excessive amount of space-characters, Bricksmith generated LDraw-files can now use (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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Allen, Congratulations on your work, I had a quick look and you present some nice elegant and "Mac Like" solutions with a pleasant interface. Some competition might be what I need for me to make the time to further my own project. If you want some (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Maybe the Rage M3 in my Powerbook G4 can get together with the Radeon 7500 in my G3 and somehow make it work.. oops, I need 10.3.9. Where's that Mac Classic? (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Yeah, I think the GPU would be the factor. For a tower, this one has a Radeon 9000 in it... (URL) iMac G4 has a GeForce 5200 in it.. (URL) eMac has the Radeon 7500.. (URL) of the iBook G4's appear to have at least a Radeon 9200 in them. The (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I got itworking on mine: (URL) Main thomasmain@myrealbox.com (19 years ago, 25-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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So, I am too lazy to figure it out... what is the oldest Mac that meets the hardware requirements? Minimum System Requirements Mac Operating system: OS X 10.3.9 or 10.4.2 CPU: G4 or faster processor Graphics card: NVidia GeForce 5200/ATI Radeon 7500 (...) (19 years ago, 25-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Very cool. Which IDE did you use.. XCode 2.0 ? I just installed XCode 2.1 on the new iBook. Very spiffy stuff. Ray (19 years ago, 25-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) [snip] (...) Well, not actually required; rather, that location was recommended. Both LDGLite and Mac Brick Cad will use an LDRAW library where ever it is as long as you set the location using the Preferences panel. I think the programmers (...) (19 years ago, 25-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Well, I suppose that as long as we're stuck with lawyers in our society, we have to face realities like this. We don't have to like it, though. (...) Making LDRAW-using apps harder to use doesn't really help this, though. People who stick with (...) (19 years ago, 25-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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