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| (...) I noticed they were offset somewhat because of pivot point issues, and that took some time to resolve. The 3DS file format is actually very badly documented in public sources, but now it works the way it should. Now that I have the absolute (...) (20 years ago, 24-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) Your best bet to get a quick result would probably be to look in some 3D graphics libraries for OpenGL and find working code to get a TT glyph out into a mesh model. Exporting a flat mesh model to LDraw format yourself is not very difficult, (...) (20 years ago, 26-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) But what's required by/for the parts library is different from what the basic file format spec lays out. I think it is better (more flexible, easier to write) for the file format to be flexible. When I'm doing rough coding of new parts, I (...) (20 years ago, 25-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| (...) could post some of the other things your class has created? One question: The credits list MLCAD and LDraw as applications used in the creation of the video - can you elaborate on this? Did they use LDraw measurements (or actual parts) in the (...) (20 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.edu, FTX)
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| As some of you might have seen, I have been doing some programming lately to convert various 3D file formats to DAT format. This resulted in the MAX2DAT converter, which is useful but does not handle primitives, and is limited to the file formats (...) (20 years ago, 5-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) Hi Stefan, While I think my opinion on this is well known, I'll answer your call for responses here.. I agree that AFOL don't "need" high-end tools for parts-authoring.. Any way to incorporate a graphical interface into the process would be a (...) (20 years ago, 6-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| (...) Wow, that's cool! LDRAW stuff sent to stdout. I finally get to try ldglite with a pipe from a real program, and it all seems to work. txt2dat -s hello -c 4 -p 72 c:\windows\fonts\ariel.ttf | ldglite -i1 -MFhello.png -- Thanks. That was fun, (...) (20 years ago, 18-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| Hi all, I've just uploaded the first beta version of txt2dat, a command-line program to create LDraw files from text. It has been developed using cygwin and mingw on Windows XP, and has not been fully tested in any other environments. You can (...) (20 years ago, 15-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| (...) Actually, looking at the brick 1x1s with letters in LDraw, it should be possible to generate glyphs straight from the DAT files. Then it's just a matter of packaging them up nicely in a font file, saves having to convert it to a bitmap & back. (...) (19 years ago, 30-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) Version 0.1.4 now available at the same page. Changes in v0.1.4 are: Use “LDraw inverse colour” for lines. Fixed non-ansi definition of add_char() and add_string(). Implemented better algorithm for choosing the number of segments in splines. (...) (19 years ago, 29-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| (...) Yeah, I was gonna suggest you convert the "font" from the ldraw lettered tiles into a cheesy builtin internal font, which would be used by default. Then add a -f before the font if you can find a better one somewhere. That way you could make (...) (19 years ago, 29-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) Nuthin like a good ol' command line utility ;) though I wouldn't be adverse to someone creating a nice graphical interface - working out which font file to use is a bit of a pain sometimes... ROSCO (19 years ago, 29-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) Quick hack: (URL) (Exe + Delphi 5 source, 270 kB) (...) I googled for it (going from font name to font file) and could only find the advice to enumerate all font files and read the info in them. Sounds like loads of work :-( I did it the other (...) (19 years ago, 30-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) Wow! Thanks Anders, I will add a link from my page next time I update it! (...) I see what you mean. I never realised it would be so hard to get that information, good ol' windoze. I think your way is the easiest workaround. (...) Works great (...) (19 years ago, 30-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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