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Subject: 
Re: Announcing LEGO Digital Designer 1.0
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lugnet.cad, lugnet.lego.direct
Date: 
Tue, 29 Apr 2003 19:41:51 GMT
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Lots of good comments, this is very exciting stuff, ne?

In lugnet.cad, Todd Lehman writes:
In lugnet.cad, Jake McKee writes:

However, as
many developers will tell you, it's good to try and manage the growth of a
format to some extent, so we would like to maintain the official list of
what the format includes.

So -- no, it won't be an open format?  It'll be a closed, proprietary,
undocumented format?

Those aren't the only two alternatives. It could well be closed (changes
controlled by LEGO only, rather than by a standards committee) but still
well documented rather than "undocumented".

++Lar



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  Re: Announcing LEGO Digital Designer 1.0
 
(...) Ya, that would be a lot like Adobe's approach to PostScript. It's a closed language in that Adobe has decreed that they are the official purveyors of enhancements to the language, but it's an open language in that it's extremely well (...) (22 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.lego.direct)

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  Re: Announcing LEGO Digital Designer 1.0
 
(...) 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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