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Re: Announcing LEGO Digital Designer 1.0
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lugnet.cad, lugnet.lego.direct
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Tue, 29 Apr 2003 18:08:41 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Todd Lehman writes:
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> I mentioned this to Brad etc. a few years ago but it bears repeating... If
> you don't release a full collection of parts, what will inevitably happen is
> that people will create their own parts in LXF format, either by converting
> from LDraw or creating them from scratch. If DD doesn't totally blow (like
> LEGOCAD did), then you can be sure that the LXF format will be reverse
> engineered by someone.
I don't think LXF is going to be a parts format, it sounds like it's a way
to exchange models only (think of it as LDraw with only type 1 lines).
Out of curiosity, how do you plan to solve the problem of different parts
library having parts with different orientations/center points? This would
be the most complicated problem when trying to convert to/from LXF.
Leonardo
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 | | Re: Announcing LEGO Digital Designer 1.0
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| (...) Ok, maybe things have changed. Originally TLC was talking about releasing parts as files. My understanding is that they have three "quality" levels of parts: high quality, medium quality, and low-quality. The high quality parts are what their (...) (22 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Announcing LEGO Digital Designer 1.0
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| (...) Perhaps Digital Designer could offer third-party "plug-in" capabilities (import/export) for reading and writing LDraw files...similar to the way Adobe Photoshop works. But having some command-line tools to do the conversion would probably be (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.lego.direct)
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