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Re: Need (working) program to generate instruction pictures
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Sat, 3 Mar 2007 16:20:47 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.mac, Jim DeVona wrote:

   I’d like something like that too. Although I don’t think there’s currently anything that will make the whole instructions for you, Bricksmith’s “Export Steps” option may be a useful start. It creates a separate LDraw file for each step in your model (or each submodel thereof) representing the model up to that point. Then you could render each step file with L3P. I’ve thought of writing a script to help do that, but it’s pretty far back on my queue.

yes, I just thought the export option of Bricksmith just would generate pictures, but ended up with single step LDRs. They are of use for rendering, indeed. makes still some work...

   Otherwise I guess you could just take a bunch of screenshots.

Yes, I have done as a bypass so far.

   I’ve observed the same problem with ldglite on my Intel Mac. However, I just realized that although there are display problems, it works fine from the command line! Based on the notes in the ldglite.txt readme, try something like this:
/path/to/ldglite.app/Contents/MacOS/ldglite -i2 -mS /path/to/model.ldr
The -i2 option generates PNGs with transparent backgrounds and -mS saves an image for every step without opening a window. Cool!

Ah, thanks. I’ll try that and see.


Lutz



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(...) If you want, I can send you an alpha-quality Intel Mac binary of LDView 3.2, which can render the files (even from the command line), but I don't think it will be any easier to use than ldglite if you get ldglite to work. LDView doesn't (...) (18 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)

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(...) I'd like something like that too. Although I don't think there's currently anything that will make the whole instructions for you, Bricksmith's "Export Steps" option may be a useful start. It creates a separate LDraw file for each step in your (...) (18 years ago, 3-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)

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