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(...) I guess I was not even considering STEP, ROTSTEP or CLEAR as meaningful for animation. I was only really considering type 1 lines as useful, just to describe the models components, so we agree. I was thinking about a higher level scripting (...) (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I really should write a part 2.... Basically, it involves converting the model to povray (or whatever, blender even). If the conversion process retains the parent-child hierarchy, then you don't have to go into the converted code and 1) add (...) (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) animations. I don't see how these ideas help us script anything. Can you explain what I'm missing? (...) Yes, and I was talking about trying to get to the second half of what you list.... scripting language.... without talking about GUIs for (...) (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) LDraw mixes part type and part name........ For library parts, we specify its part type (filename). For sub-models we specify its filename (same thing in both cases). In C++ we have classes, and instance of classes. In LDraw the names of the (...) (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) No. I've said this before and don't understand why others don't understand this yet. See my article: (URL) whole animation issue makes me dizzy. It is one big circle: (URL) (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Isn't that more or less an MPD? By *not* reusing sub-models you get a unique name for every group, sub-group etc. Or am I misunderstanding something? (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hi Andrew, LPub cannot currently do this, but I'll add it to the wish list. If I concatenate the part-name and its description it should be easy to use in place of the instance count. The name is going to make things sparse, because the name (...) (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Can LPub make a BOM or CSI image with the part number and name shown instead of "1x"? I am interested in dense pages that help me identify parts that I have. (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Thoughts on File Format for LDraw Animation [DAT]
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(...) This is the way LDA2001/2005 already works on the inside. Here's a temporary object file, created by LDA2005, before it is inlined into its parent and grandparent files and, after that, deleted: 0 Project=MyAn; Frame #000; (...) (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Kevin L. Clague wrote: <snip> (...) Too true! (...) How about 3d modeling Parent->Child relationships When the Parent part moves, All children move in relation to it, including rotation (Unless they are Tracking to another (...) (19 years ago, 26-Oct-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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