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Woo-hoo! A Lego Cad Program written in DELPHI!!!! Can't wait to see it! Looks good so far! :-) -Andy Lynch -Another Delphi Developer ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Williams" <gwlego@gw.ro> (...) site with (...) months. (...) built (...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ah, you noticed the default application icon :) I also have the desktop edition of Kylix so porting it to GNU/Linux at some point is a very likely option. At the moment you can pick from six orthographic and eight isometric views, but only one (...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) them). If anybody is interested, a demo of how this particular feature will work can be downloaded from (URL) proof-of-concept executable #3. -Gary (23 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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<whew> Wow. Downloaded all three of your "proof of concept" executables... Beautiful work. I'll try to figure out something else to say later... I'm kind of speechless. I had toyed with the idea of writing a Lego Cad application in Delphi a while (...) (23 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Andy Lynch" <andy@andyandjackie.com> wrote in message news:004f01c11ffb$c6...1DMNJ01... (...) Thanks for your kind words. :) (...) I never truly understood those transformation matrices until recently myself. When I was a high school student I (...) (23 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(URL) image shows James Jessiman's car.dat file with every part marked as "selected" in GWCAD. The result is that the car resembles an auto magazine ad in which parts of the vehicle are displayed semi-translucent so callouts can be drawn to all the (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I really like the new Suzuki Transpera. I take it you made that intentionally? I got one by accident when first implementing transparent windshields. -Erik (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Niftyness :-) I set the image as my desktop wallpaper. Doesn't help that I run the same scree res and I think I have a window maximized when I look at it ;-) BTW - notice it appears James forgot the back right wheel on the car. I like the (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) This was actually a misfeature, but it's a convoluted story to explain. I accidentally accomplished what I at first set out to do. :) It kinda looks like the car is decloaking. :) -Gary (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) magazine (...) callouts (...) The right rear wheel is in fact there, but it doesn't appear in this rendering. That seems to be an artifact of how the rendering was produced. If part #2 comes in front of part #1, it will be drawn transparently (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) produced. (...) top; (...) I uploaded an alternate version of this image, with no parts completely obscured. Go to (URL) and click on Screenshot #8. -Gary (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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