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(...) LDView's URL is (URL). You can find LDView's version history here: (URL) The major releases all have their version number in a larger font and bold, and are x.y (as opposed to x.y.z). They are as follows: 0.1: 03 Jun, 2000 (Initial public (...) (17 years ago, 12-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Travis, Thanks for posting this info. I think it's OK to have more than 5 dates, in fact, since I'd like to take this and visualize it somehow complete info is better. I can always cull it down to make it more visually presentable if needed. I (...) (17 years ago, 12-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) OK, I added the info to the doc. I also created a Miscellaneous column, where I entered the two release dates that I didn't put in the other spots (for 0.1 and 2.1). Oh, and I resized the URL column to fit the URL I entered. Other people (...) (17 years ago, 12-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Travis, I'm filling in a little myself right now. You're the only one who filled in data in the "milestone" columns. You interpreted that as version numbers. I think it makes more sense to name the colums "VersionNumber#" to correspond with (...) (17 years ago, 14-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) OK. I rearranged mine to make 0.1 the "Original Release". I pushed other versions over and replaced 0.1 in the Misc column with 3.1. Also, I didn't like the spreadsheet stripping of the .0, so I added a v prefix to all my version numbers so (...) (17 years ago, 14-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Thanks. Not sure on the string bit. For starters I'd like to get the data filled out to the point where I can work on graphing it with Excel, Numbers or possibly even Illustrator. I'm not as concerned with the string for that reason as I'll (...) (17 years ago, 17-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Good news - I found an XML based dynamic timeline generator. I've plugged in a couple dates on my local machine, and I'm testing for how to deal with events and spans aesthetically. I'll post it when I have a bit more info filled in, then we (...) (17 years ago, 18-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Here is my working file of the timeline: (URL) It's not 100% to what's in the spreadsheet, but it gives a good idea of what's possible. The system has some limitations. I'm not able to add the individual version dates as points along a span, (...) (17 years ago, 19-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) With some further playing, I started adding a few events. That goes beyond the scope of software tools. I don't know how to create a separate band for events or even if it's possible. I like the idea of having one for software only. It gives a (...) (17 years ago, 19-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Timeline of software tools and timeline of events should be in a separate document. For the timeline of software tools I would like to have a point at every version change (like the initial you have already in the spreadsheet) and a blue (...) (17 years ago, 19-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) I agree with you on each tool being a line, or at least groupings of tools being together. However I haven't figured out how to get the timeline to do that just yet. It seems to me that it takes the next available space for a line. You post (...) (17 years ago, 19-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) snip (...) snip (...) I could not get the prog to do what I want. It places the events on the line it wants, not like I want. I did not find a way to tell the prog that I want some events on the same line. I think for what we want to do this (...) (17 years ago, 19-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Can't you just make the end date of the current release of any software be some point in the future? Then, make the end date of each previous version one day before the release date of the next version. If it's doing what it sounds like based (...) (17 years ago, 19-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Never mind. After playing with it, I see that it doesn't want things that occur in sequence to be at the same vertical location. --Travis (17 years ago, 19-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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This was the best I could come up with: (URL) I created one big event for LDView spanning from its original release until Dec 31 2010, and then created a point event for each release. --Travis (17 years ago, 19-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Hmm, yeah I'm a bit disappointed in how it doesn't let you group events so they show up in the same place horizontally. So, if we want to use this in its current state, we'd have to drop the version dates which isn't good. I hope the group (...) (17 years ago, 20-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) The alternative timelines I've checked out have either fewer features or don't display as nicely as we'd want for this. The original seems to be the best so far, and is really only lacking a couple features to make it ideal. Is anyone here (...) (17 years ago, 25-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) I entered the MLCad dates that Willy posted into the XML building off of Travis' LDView input. I also grouped LDView and MLCad items within comments. The idea would be to push out a new version of the script that renders the timeline to (...) (17 years ago, 30-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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Hey, before this history thread drops completely outta site... Is there any way to restore the historical LDraw and LEdit tutorial that used to be available here? (URL) (17 years ago, 5-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Orion or Willy may be able to. I don't believe I have a local copy of the files and don't know what happened with the article. If all else fails, I hope Bram has an archived copy. -Tim (17 years ago, 5-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) it. -Orion (17 years ago, 5-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Fixed. -Orion (17 years ago, 5-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Nothing can be found in that file that helps us. You have to go to the project page and then you have all files for download and there are a lot. As far as I understand the code the file that has the code that we have to change is here, but I (...) (17 years ago, 5-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) I did some more digging on the project homepage and found the name of the creator. I sent him an email directly (vs the prof. over the project). We'll see what happens there. Otherwise, I've been meaning to have a friend or two look into the (...) (17 years ago, 6-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Here is the response I received via email: (...) If anyone wants to take a look at the code, please do. I'll have some friends look when I have the opportunity. -Tim (17 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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To keep moving this forward, I asked a LinkedIn question on the topic seeking help from a JS developer. This gentleman was kind enough to put a few cycles into it. Here are the results. I'm posting the question/answer thread in reverse chronological (...) (17 years ago, 13-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Jean-Marc came back to me today with an interesting solution I think might work. See (URL) Click on MLCad's ball, then "Details" within the window. The specific versions will appear in the large band below. What does everyone think about this? (...) (17 years ago, 13-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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