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Version 1.1.6 of DATHeader is now available for download at www.michael-heidemann.de. You can now give DATHeader a file with path as a parameter to open. You can now change the category back to nothing if needed. Enjoy mikeheide (17 years ago, 9-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | One for all (maybe)
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I have now ready a new tool to give the very good commandline tools a gui. You can find the tool at: (URL) hope you like it. Please come back with your experience, so it can become better. cu mikeheide (17 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev) !
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| | Re: New Ldraw parts authors tool: Projector
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(...) Philo! Awesome tool, can hardly wait to check it out. I've been waiting for a long, long time for such a prog. w. (17 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: New Ldraw parts authors tool: Projector
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(...) For unproject MLCad does the job. Symply select everything and set the appropriate matrix row at 0. This is perfect for triangle, quads... If you have primitives you have to later automatically fix the "all zero matrix row" using LDDP. The (...) (17 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: New Ldraw parts authors tool: Projector
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(...) This is great! Like Tim, I'd been thinking about writing a tool like this for a long time. Thank you very much for making this available. Steve (17 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: New Ldraw parts authors tool: Projector
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(...) It's a direct parallel projection. I think it's the best since the photo (with a long focal lens) or a scan has the same projection. Philo (17 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: New Ldraw parts authors tool: Projector
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(...) I was curious if it was a direct projection or an area preserving one. A nice variant might be to write an area preserving variant although that would get quite complex. Tim (17 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: New Ldraw parts authors tool: Projector
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(...) It should. One interesting aspect is that while photo/scan distorts the pattern, flattening the shape to put it in quad2dat does the same distortion so they compensate each other! Philo (17 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: New Ldraw parts authors tool: Projector
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(...) Wow. Awesome. I've been meaning to write something like this for ages so I'm very happy. Would it work on minifig faces too? Tim (17 years ago, 7-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: New Ldraw parts authors tool: Projector
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Very nice. I don't author parts, so I won't be trying it out. However, I looked at your tutorial, and I have two suggestions: Add "Un-Project", where it takes a projected shape and flattens it automatically on an axis specified by the user (X, Y, or (...) (17 years ago, 7-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: New Ldraw parts authors tool: Projector
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Wow! That is very cool! I'm going to have to find a curved piece in one of my models that needs a pattern and try it out. Thanks! Scott (17 years ago, 7-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: New Ldraw parts authors tool: Projector
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(...) What a clever tool. That seems like it will be very useful! Jim (17 years ago, 7-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | New Ldraw parts authors tool: Projector
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(URL) This new tool allows easy creation of non-flat patterned LDraw parts. Create a flat pattern and stamp it on a 3D former. Program, documentation, source code are available (URL) here>. To show the usefulness of this tool, I created the four (...) (17 years ago, 7-May-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX) !
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| | Re: Program naming conventions?
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(...) If there is no other tool with that name - take it. But if your tool is for printing code I would suggest also the letter print in the name like LDPrint or better LDCPrint (LDrawCodePrint). cu mikeheide (17 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Program naming conventions?
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(...) Hi Jim, I think it is tradition to name things with LD (LDView, LDLite). I didn't figure this out until after I named LPub and LSynth. Kevin (17 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Program naming conventions?
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I am wrapping up a little utility to pretty-print LDraw code (as a supplement to some things LDDP can do and as a stand-alone tool for other platforms). My working name for it is LDTrim, but I am curious if anyone has better suggestions. In (...) (17 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Using LDraw (and LeoCAD, LDGLite, LDView) on 64 bit Linux?
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(...) Apparently it's not too hard to get it to compile under x64. I had a friend using 64 bit debian fetch the latest code from CVS and build it. He had to install the developer version of libOSMesa to compile, but that was about it. His Direct (...) (17 years ago, 5-May-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.leocad)
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| | Re: 3ds Max Import Script
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(...) Hi Guys, thanks for the feedback, what I've done is basically take both suggestions and merge them. Basically what I've observed so far is that not all parts in the "Parts" folder have the LDRAWORG meta tag (which denotes the type of file, (...) (17 years ago, 4-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: 3ds Max Import Script
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(...) Hi Travis! Thanks for the input. I'm yet to fully exploit the meta/header data of the files, I've focused on the winding properties only thus far. This will give me greater cause to look deeper into them! Cheers Shane (17 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 3ds Max Import Script
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Thanks Steve! That's really useful! I too thought that ldraw site would have the directory structure more documented then it is, but clarification is always nice. Cheers Shane (17 years ago, 3-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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