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(...) Thanks Jacob, I had wondered where it went. I've updated it with new primitives since July, so will eMail you separately. I'm not sure what amendments you made, but if they're not in my new version , please let me know. Chris (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw and the Track Designer (Was: Next show)
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(...) I'm not too familiar with LDraw, can I call it with a design (.DAT file) and a viewpoint and get back a bitmap somehow? Matt (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw and the Track Designer (Was: Next show)
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(...) A stand-alone utility could call LDraw (or LDLite) to produce the images, but extract the (port) information directly from the .DAT file. Calling into LDraw/LDLite is pretty easy -- both programs are command-line driven. The utility would have (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw and the Track Designer (Was: Next show)
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(...) Track Designer can already automatically rotate [1] and scale any new bitmap that you give it. I'm not sure why you would want to do this in an image editor? What are the weird artifacts that you are referring to when using magenta as the (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw and the Track Designer (Was: Next show)
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This sounds like an excellent idea, however I'm not sure how to implement it. If it were a built in feature of Track Designer it would require that the entire rendering engine of LDraw be built into TD. A bit daunting! If it were built into LDraw, (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dev)
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