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Web-based LDraw viewing
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Sat, 13 Mar 2004 14:20:47 GMT
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Today I was thinking about the complications of LeoCAD/MLCAD and how hard it is
sometimes for a group or people to easily deal with CAD files in a project. If
one person creates a CAD of something, they either have to email it to everyone
who’s interested or put it online somewhere (and depending on the age bracket,
sometimes they don’t have webspace).
So I had a thought, and I hope all of you programmers and those familiar with
LDraw code can answer: how hard would it be to create some sort of web-based
program for viewing CADs? I’m envisioning something like LDViewer, integrated
with a browser so the user can just click a button, select a local file, it gets
sucked into the program and is displayed.
Although I will readily admit that installing MLCAD these days is painless,
thanks to the LDAIOI, but my target audience is kids in their teens or younger.
They often aren’t that tech-savvy and if they have a problem, they have no idea
how to fix it. They just say “stupid computer I cant read that file” and drop
it, which, if you’re trying to show an idea, is kind of a problem. It would be
sooo nice to have a web-based foolproof viewer.
The unfortunate thing is that I’m not a very high-tech programmer; I can do HTML
and some CSS and PHP, but I get lost with C/C++/Java/etc. I’m not entirely sure
how easy it would be to build something like this (or whether it’s even
possible). So...guess where my first stop is. Bingo.
Thoughts, comments?
-Mike
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Message has 5 Replies:
 | | Re: Web-based LDraw viewing
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| (...) Java is probably the best route for realtime model rendering on the web. The challenge would be to write a rendering engine that quickly processes large model files (as opposed to most current renderers which take a while if the part count is (...) (20 years ago, 13-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
| | | Re: Web-based LDraw viewing
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| Antonio Cortes Carrillo has already created a very fine online Ldraw file viewer. Check out the message below. (URL) quite surprising that it has not gained the popularity it deserves. (20 years ago, 14-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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