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Re: Parts editing made easy, anyone?
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Sat, 22 Jan 2005 00:58:55 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Stefan Gustavson wrote:
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> If there was a simple way to model a Lego element in some common 3D modeling
> program, export to a file and have it automatically converted into a clean,
> fully finished LDR part file, would it be useful to anyone? If so, please tell
> me and I will look closer into the problem. (My software, if I wrote it, would
> be free and open source.)
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> Stefan Gustavson (stegu@itn.liu.se) #2407
If you look up my posts on LUGNET, you'll find that's all I've really ever
talked about here. (Damn, I'm boring. Well, OK, I also talk about trucks)
You've touched on the critical issues I've found over the years:
- LDR/DAT files created by the available converters (I use 3DWin) are large and
messy (no cond. line/primitives, etc.) As converted, I have been unable to
submit any of my AutoCAD-3DS-generated parts to the Parts Tracker. Your
translator would have to be just as "clean" as the text-coded stuff.
- LEGO CAD people want free/open source.
- Any new modeler must be backwards compatible with LDraw library.
Tim Courtney (and others) have been working on a contest idea called LPrize
<www.lprize.com> If you were to create such a translator that met all three of
those limitations and submit that as an entry, you'd be my favorite to win! Even
if you don't want to enter, I know the product would be appreciated by many.
Darrell
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| (...) Why? Is the .DAT file supposed to be readable by humans? Why? ;) What's wrong with the larger number of polygons? What positives (from the side of the automated rendering process) does bring the existence of primitives? What's wrong with the (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| Are parts authors really using text editors to compose new parts? I find it hard to understand that a text editor is still the tool of choice for this relatively complicated modeling task. I might be wrong and could need an update on what tools (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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