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Re: Problems exporting from LeoCAD to LDraw .dat format
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Date: 
Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:18:38 GMT
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Allan Bedford wrote:

> For example... LeoCAD is exporting lines like this:
> 
>  1 7 20.00 0.00 270.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 3031.DAT
> 
> But I'm told that the line should really look more like this:
> 
>  1 7 20 0 270 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3031.DAT

Both lines are equally valid.

> In other words, without all the .00 values after the numbers.  This seems to
> sometimes cause problems when trying to run the LeoCAD version of the file
> through LPub.

That's an error in LPub then.

> Any thoughts on this?  Any reason why LeoCAD exports values in this manner?

Probably because it:

  1) is easier to do
  2) makes the files easier to read for a human

Play well,

Jacob
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  Problems exporting from LeoCAD to LDraw .dat format  [DAT]
 
I'm hoping someone can help. I've recently started working in LeoCAD. After trying MLCAD, I just find I like LeoCAD better. Just my preference, nothing wrong with MLCAD. :) However, in trying to export models/instructions to the LDraw .dat format (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.leocad)

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