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Re: Question about the Future of LDraw CAD family.
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Mon, 6 Jan 2003 21:38:19 GMT
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"Dwayne "Fallenhunter" Miller" <dmiller23@neo.rr.com> skrev i meddelandet
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> Now, I am asking if there are plans to support other building systems, and • I
> dont just mean Mega Blocks or other generic Lego clones.
Se my announcement of version 3 of BlockCAD in .announce - I also announced
a brother program for Anchor Stones (Ankersteine).
> First, I work with a block building system that is far from mainstream, • but
> still availble commerically worldwide. The system is called
CastleBlocks(TM),
Seems like it would be very suited to the model of the AnkerCAD program, as
long as you mainly want to place things at right angles to each other, and
don't turn them upside down too much.
> One of the most important things that we are currently missing is a way to • take
> a block and add some form of texture, normally a cut stone, or a • cobblestone
> effect.
In BlockCAD and AnkerCAD I solve this by exporting to POVRay, see an example
of an AnkerCAD rendering at
http://user.tninet.se/~hbh828t/pict/leuchtturm1.jpg
BlockCAD exports LDRAW data, and uses L3P (or L2P) to convert to POVRay,
while AnkerCAD exports directly, and uses a POV library of the stones that
I've made myself. Both programs give you one-click rendering.
AnkerCAD uses a part format of it's own (of course!), and the part editor is
built-in. It is not suitable for the level of detail that LDRAW parts have,
but more for quick sketching.
A crude 'import LDRAW part' function exists, and it can work for larger, not
very detailed, parts, if they already exist in LDRAW.
There are no other 3:rd party programs available the can show AnkerCAD
models (like all the LD-viewers), so you're more depending on the POV
library to get good looking pictures.
Take a look at the program(s), and feel free to mail me directly for further
questions about AnkerCAD and it's possibilities for other blocks!
--
Anders Isaksson, Sweden
BlockCAD: http://user.tninet.se/~hbh828t/proglego.htm
AnkerCAD: http://user.tninet.se/~hbh828t/ankercad.htm
Gallery: http://user.tninet.se/~hbh828t/gallery/index.htm
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| <snip> (...) I found this program, a couple of hours after posting, seems too limited in its blocks availble for what we do, and as what we do is totally freeform, no pegs/holes to constrain us, overlapping a few blocks here and there (in life its (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| Greetings all, Now, I am asking if there are plans to support other building systems, and I dont just mean Mega Blocks or other generic Lego clones. I mean more like K-nex, and other such building systems? Ok, a more full explaination of why I am (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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