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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Sat, 24 Sep 2005 05:37:01 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Steven Coallier wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Kevin Wilson wrote:
> 
> > - file conversion from LDraw format to LDD format, (so we don't have to use
> > LDD at all, ideally)
> 
> 
> Good one Kevin!  I will Paypal ten bucks to the first person who comes up with a
> way to do this.

We're going to work on this with LEGO.

> Apologies to the authors, but LDD has one of the worst and most frustrating
> interfaces of any 3D assembly/drawing/modeling program I've ever seen (and I've
> seen many).  Heck, TLG should have just endorsed LDraw as the official way to
> build for this, since they don't charge for LDD anyway.

I disagree.  For the same reason LUGNET should stay independant from LEGO, so
should LDraw.  I don't want corporate suits telling us how to run our project.

-Orion



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H
 
(...) I agree with your sentiment. OTOH, I wouldn't have any problem with LEGO using LDraw tools in place of/as well as LDD. Especially if they'd contribute to the parts library... Steve (21 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H
 
(...) EXTREMELY valid point. I wouldn't want that either...I was thinking of a one-way relationship. The only thing TLG could do, perhaps, is supply new .DATs for new parts. .Steve (21 years ago, 27-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H
 
(...) Good one Kevin! I will Paypal ten bucks to the first person who comes up with a way to do this. Apologies to the authors, but LDD has one of the worst and most frustrating interfaces of any 3D assembly/drawing/modeling program I've ever seen (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)

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