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I’ve been coding away since last month when I unveiled Bricksmith, my new
Macintosh LDraw editor. And it’s time for an upgrade.
Bricksmith 1.1 adds the following
features:
- Shading!
- Fast-draw mode while rotating
- Piece Count utility
- Dimensions utility
- Zoom controls in the Part Browser
- A simple way to add submodel references
- “Customize Toolbar” menu item
A bug whereby the canvas size would be too small when large models were opened
was also fixed.
Despite the speed penality of adding of shading to the model renderer,
Bricksmith 1.1’s full drawing time should be on par with that of version 1.0.
Rotating large models should feel considerably faster, because Bricksmith
automatically switches to bounding-box-only mode when overall drawing time
exceeds four-tenths of a second.
The new Dimensions utility reports in units
of studs, inches, centimeters, and
Legonian Feet,
a scale unit I use in my own Lego world. In this scale, one stud is just over 1
foot 1 inch long, which makes the standard bald minifigure about 5 feet 8 inches
tall. I have also included for your convenience a printable ruler graduated in
Legonian Feet, which allows you to make measurements all the way down to the
scale inch. Measurement is a hobby of mine, and I’ve been using this scale for
years, so I hope others find it fun!
The Piece Count utility recurses into
MPD submodels without counting the model reference itself. In other words, the
piece count it reports is what you need to build the entire model.
This
update nullifies several major annoyances I had with my program. I hope others
find the same.
Bricksmith requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later, and may be
download it at http://bricksmith.sourceforge.net/.
Sincerely,
Allen Smith
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| (...) This is great, Allen! Thanks for all of your hard work contributing on behalf of us Mac fans:-) One question: do I need to dump my current version, or will the upgrade mount over it? TIA, JOHN (19 years ago, 29-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| (...) Hello Allen, my own developper experience is my initial excitment vanishes when a first version is complete. may be because i have no users or because i turn up at maintenance, i don't know. it's really much work with application to mature an (...) (19 years ago, 29-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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