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Re: Parts editing made easy, anyone?
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Wed, 2 Feb 2005 21:54:13 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Stefan Gustavson wrote:
> 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.
Hi Stefan:
I'm chiming in late here, but I've crafted at least a few unofficial LDraw
parts, and I thought I might offer some thoughts.
My original composing tool of choice was the shareware text editor "PC-Write
v4," which no longer appears to be supported or updated. It was a reasonably
versatile DOS-based program and was adequate for a good number of the parts I've
written.
Later, however, when I started working in curved surfaces and paying more
attention to linetype 5, I found Microsoft's Excel to be very well suited to my
particular skills and needs. I just save the spreadsheet as a tab-delimited
text file with an ".LDR" filename suffix. Afterwards, I open the file in my
trusty text editor and strip out all of the non-ASCII tab characters.
When that's all done, I use Lars Hassing's magnificent L3P to -check the file
for BFC errors and line duplication, and for the most part this has been very
successful.
> 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?
Are you talking about converting, say, a POV-Ray object into LDR format? That
would be incredibly cool. But if you're talking about writing the LDR file and
having it display in a 3D modeller in realtime, I've found it useful to use my
text editor or Excel in concert with Lars' L3Lab. I have very limited
experience with MLCAD, but doesn't that program offer something similar?
Anyway, it sounds like you're onto a very useful project.
Dave!
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| (...) <snip> (...) Yes, I use MLCad in conjuction with LDDP/LDView for parts authoring. My method is to build the part in MLCad since it does all the rotaion calculations for me and then clean in up and fine tune ithe part in LDDP/LDView. As far as (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-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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