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Re: Bricksmith 1.3: Here's Looking at You, Kid
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Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:46:30 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.mac, Allen Smith wrote:
   Unfortunately, Bricksmith does not have any native ability to export the images it generates. Since they would be unsuitable for printing anyway, this feature is not apt to ever appear. What I personally do is render each step individually in MacMegaPOV, using the find_edges command to produce professional-quality images. Bricksmith is optimized for onscreen drawing, so the renderings look infinitely better than anything it could ever do itself.

I guess what I am asking about is that if I create a set of instructions, there is no way to save or print to a .pdf file? Not a problem. I can just share the .mpd file, but I figured I would ask.

   Parts list exporting is unavailable as well, but there is no reason it couldn’t be implemented. Is there a standard file-format for exported part lists, from Peeron, perhaps?

I don’t know about Peeron, but MLCAD saves a .txt file.

Russell



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  Re: Bricksmith 1.3: Here's Looking at You, Kid
 
(...) When I create a set of instructions, I use MacMegaPOV/POV-Ray to individually render a super-high-quality image for each step. I then arrange them manually with a page-layout program. My ultimate goal is always to print them. Of course, (...) (19 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)

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  Re: Bricksmith 1.3: Here's Looking at You, Kid
 
Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm and suggestions. Unfortunately, Bricksmith does not have any native ability to export the images it generates. Since they would be unsuitable for printing anyway, this feature is not apt to ever appear. What I (...) (19 years ago, 22-Mar-06, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)

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