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Re: Parts editing made easy, anyone?
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Date: 
Sat, 22 Jan 2005 17:18:43 GMT
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Darrell Urbien wrote:
- 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.

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 larger file size in the year 2005, when the
harddrives have disks 80+GBs, at least?
etc.

Jindroush



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  Re: Parts editing made easy, anyone?
 
(...) Yes, since it is text based. Also, a most new authors learn by examining the code. (...) Unneccessary memory usage and file size. (...) L3P (and other converters/viewers) detect these primitives and convert them to smooth objects (e.g. L3P (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
  Re: Parts editing made easy, anyone?
 
(...) If for nothing else, to permit them to be used as the basis for the manual creation of similar parts, and abstraction into resuable sub-components. Not a strong reason, but worth considering. (...) To use just one example - the STUD primitive (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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  Re: Parts editing made easy, anyone?
 
(...) 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 (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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