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Re: open source ldd?
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lugnet.cad.ldd
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Wed, 16 May 2007 01:32:15 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.ldd, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.ldd, Harry Schmitt wrote:
> > Hello,
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> > what programming language is used for ldd? Is it allowed, possible or even
> > welcome that users can develop addons?
--SNIP--
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> It never went anywhere, though, and we never actually received any "inside"
> information about LDD or its file format. LDD eventually had its own internal
> support for LDraw files, so the outcome isn't necessarily bad. While the ldraw
> import/export functionality in LDD currently has some serious issues, there is
> really no guarantee that any of the tools would have been updated to support the
> LDD file format, even had we been given the information. However, the fact that
> we weren't ever given any information implies to me that they changed their
> minds about 3rd-party support.
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> --Travis
Take any LDD 2.0 file and change it's extension from .lxf to .zip. Unzip it
with your favorite unzipper tool. Open IMAGE100.LXFML in your favorite text
editor. It's XML. Go to town.
-PD
PS: Love to see a tool to control the building instruction steps. The XML tags
are all there to support it. Someone just has to do it.
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: open source ldd?
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| (...) Not to mention the fact that it has some form of submodelling feature that could probably be hacked. Tim (18 years ago, 16-May-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
| | | Re: open source ldd?
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| (...) Thanks for the info, but I was actually aware of that. I was just trying to point out that the actions of LEGO as a company imply to me that they aren't interested in 3rd party support with LDD. --Travis (18 years ago, 16-May-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: open source ldd?
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| (...) I don't know either, but based on what happened before and after the original release of LDD 1.0, I'm going to have to say that I'd find it to be unlikely. Prior to LDD 1.0 being released, someone from Lego contacted a number of LDraw tool (...) (18 years ago, 15-May-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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