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| | | I'm developing a new Windows-based Lego CAD program to overcome some of the shortcomings of similar programs, with emphasis being placed on ease of use while allowing a great deal of flexibility. Details are available at (URL) I welcome (...) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: new Windows-based Lego CAD program —David Eaton
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| | | | | (...) Of course, I really shouldn't post this because I haven't used anything other than LeoCad... I'm not sure how other CAD programs handle it, but here goes... For manual piece manipulation (I.E. with the mouse): -- For a left-button-mouse-drag, (...) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: new Windows-based Lego CAD program —Gary Williams
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| | | | | | | David Eaton wrote in message ... (...) for a (...) off to (...) exists, (...) I'll include options so the user can define how he/she wants the mouse to behave when dragging parts around. Then nobody will be able to complain. :) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: new Windows-based Lego CAD program —Leonardo Zide
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| | | | | | (...) I've just done that, this will be available in the next version with some other editing helps (I still need to figure out a good way to add new bricks with the mouse). Leonardo (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: new Windows-based Lego CAD program —Jacob Sparre Andersen
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| | | | | Gary Williams: (...) [...] It looks like there are lots of people writing LDraw renderers and editors at the moment. I would like to suggest that they also start releasing the source code[1] so we can get a bit of code reuse. I suppose I should show (...) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: new Windows-based Lego CAD program —Paul Gyugyi
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| | | | | | Thanks! BTW, I have a model of Tux I've been saving for a Linux release (Converted to LDRAW type-3 lines from a DXF file). -gyug (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: new Windows-based Lego CAD program —Jacob Sparre Andersen
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| | | | | | Paul Gyugyi: (...) Don't say that yet. My code appears to need some tweaking before it works. (...) :-) Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: new Windows-based Lego CAD program —Charles Seyferth
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| | | | | (...) Sounds good. One thing that would be nice is to leave a small gap between pieces so that 2 2x2's don't look like a 2x4... Charles (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: new Windows-based Lego CAD program —Gary Williams
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| | | | | | Charles Seyferth wrote in message ... (...) My plotting engine draws lines at all edges of an element, so it's obvious where one brick ends and the next begins. (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: new Windows-based Lego CAD program —Charles Seyferth
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| | | | | | (...) Cool. Will the renderings be like in the LEGO instructions, or photo-realistic 3D? Charles (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: new Windows-based Lego CAD program —Gary Williams
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| | | | | | Charles Seyferth wrote in message ... (...) photo-realistic (...) One step at a time. :) Initially, it'll be simple, but later the user will be able to select photo realism or even just wireframe with hidden line removal (which will be wicked fast, (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: new Windows-based Lego CAD program —Thomas Burger
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| | | | | (...) more then 15 solod colors.? change dithered to solids. aka mint, chrome, tan, ect.? (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: new Windows-based Lego CAD program —Gary Williams
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| | | | | | thomas Burger wrote in message ... (...) Yup. 24-bit color. I may have to use some funky color map to stay compatible with the other Lego CAD programs. (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: new Windows-based Lego CAD program —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | | (...) I assume you are using the ldraw piece library? -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 16-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: new Windows-based Lego CAD program —Gary Williams
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| | | | | | Jonathan Wilson wrote in message <37E1777A.81BA4C41@x...il.com>... (...) Yup. The first feature listed on the web page I mentioned is full DAT-file compatibility. (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: new Windows-based Lego CAD program —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | (...) Looks like a nice description! Can't wait to see it come out and get a chance to try it out :) Chances are, cool stuff like this probably will get a writeup on ldraw.org like MLCad did. Keep it up! :) -Tim <>< (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | | | | Re: new Windows-based Lego CAD program —Gary Williams
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| | | | If anyone out there is interested, I've uploaded a digram of the object class hierarchy I intend to use for my CAD program to this url: (URL) make me draw diagrams like this at work, so I figured I'd give it a shot for a personal project. (...) (25 years ago, 21-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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