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Re: Program to create TLG style instructions from .dat files
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Date: 
Mon, 26 Apr 1999 21:22:24 GMT
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Leonardo Zide wrote:
> 
> Owen Stenseth wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > What I would like to see (or am willing to try building) is a program
> > that scans the .dat files and generates (for each step) a .dat that
> > shows the parts (similar to LEGO instructions).
> 
>   Have you ever tried the HTML export from LeoCAD ? It has an option to
> do exactly that.

I had forgoten about LeoCAD. That must be where I orignally saw this.

> 
> > I would also see the ability to put in directives like "model this step
> > from the bottom since all the pieces go on the bottom" into the .dat
> > file. (Just like that really :-))
> 
>   You can do that too, take a look at the step 5 from the sample I've
> uploaded to
> http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/3479/sample/Untitled-index.htm

Wow. This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.

> > To take it one step further you could have sub steps similar to the ones
> > that TLG uses.
> 
>   That's a little more complicated.
> 
> > Is anyone working on something like this? Would anyone find it useful?
> > If I can generate HTML stepped instructions with piece lists for each
> > step how would that be? I know that there is a HTML instruction
> > generator in one of the programs now but I cannot remember it's
> > functionality or what program it was.
> 
>   You can choose if you want to see pictures or only text or if you want
> to see the bricks that were added on each step highlighted.


Very nice. Thanks again.

Owen.

> Leonardo



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