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Re: How do I get these new applications working?
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Sat, 27 Aug 2005 16:55:31 GMT
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Don Heyse <dheyse@hotmail.spam.go.away.com> wrote:

In lugnet.cad.dev.mac, Erik L. Knopp wrote:
It is good to see new LDRAW applications (Bricksmith 1.0, LDGLite
1.1.18) coming out for the Mac. However, I can't seem to get either of
them to display some of the .dat files I've collected from various
sources. I have viewed them using MLCad on a Windows machine, so I'm
thinking the files are okay. The behavior I'm seeing essentially amounts
to no parts being shown (white screen.) Other files only partially
display. Are there some steps I might have overlooked when installing
the applicaions? How long should it take with either application for the
parts to appear? I'm running them on a 20" 2GHz iMac G5, with Mac OS X
Tiger 10.4.2.

Sounds like it can't find the parts.  For ldglite, you can use the
instructions here.  For BrickSmith, I suspect your best bet is to use
the one that comes with the parts.

  http://ldglite.sourceforge.net/osxinstall.html

Good luck,

Don

I do have the parts that came with the Bricksmith download. I placed the
folder in the /Library directory. I believe I have set both applications
to look at that location. After some further experimenting, I have now
found some files that appear to fully display in Bricksmith, but only a
couple of parts show, if any, in LDGLite. (Still have files that do not
display in either application.)

I followed the instructions at the link you provided and downloaded the
.tar archive from ldraw.org and replaced the ldraw folder with that one.
Still having the results decribed above.

Erik



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: How do I get these new applications working?
 
(...) I don't have a Mac, but if your file system is case sensitive (like most Unix file systems are), then that might be the cause of the problem. LDraw files assume a case-insensitive file system, or an application that's smart enough to deal with (...) (19 years ago, 27-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
  Re: How do I get these new applications working?
 
(...) So in LDGlite, most of the files open up and show nothing, and a few of the files show a couple of bricks? launch your teminal.app and type more .MacOSX/environment.plist Do you see something like this <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> (...) (19 years ago, 28-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)

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  Re: How do I get these new applications working?
 
(...) Sounds like it can't find the parts. For ldglite, you can use the instructions here. For BrickSmith, I suspect your best bet is to use the one that comes with the parts. (URL) luck, Don (19 years ago, 27-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)

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