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(...) One thing, though. LDView can't be used to make instructions without using LPub, since it doesn't itself support the STEP command. And of course, LPub hasn't been ported to the Mac. --Travis (19 years ago, 28-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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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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| | Re: LDGLite (on OS X) and Bricksmith
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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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| | Re: LDGLite for OS X 1.0.18 now available
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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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