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Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available
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lugnet.market.shopping
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Thu, 25 May 2000 18:52:56 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Dan Jezek writes:
> In lugnet.market.shopping, Steve Bliss writes:
> > Will you have an image for each part, in each color? It would be very nice
> > to not have strictly gray images.
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> Highly unlikely. There are 2,500 parts * 20 colors = 50,000 images!
So? ;)
> It would be nice if you could generate parts from MLCAD in Batch Mode. That
> is, you'd just specify the color, part and image size as parameters on the
> command line and the part would be generated without starting up MLCAD.
> This way in the part selection process, you'd just select the part and color
> and by clicking a button, you'd run MLCAD in the background and the part would
> be generated for you.
LDLite will do this. The only drawbacks are that the output always goes to
ldraw/bitmap/, and the filename is munged with the step number. So make sure
the bitmap directory is always kept empty, generate the file, and just take
whatever file gets dumped into the bitmap dir. You'll need to convert it to a
GIF or JPG, anyway.
Steve
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| Would it be possible to set up a script to do all the parts in all the colors? If so, I'd be willing to run it, process the pictures, and host them from my simplenet site. As it is right now, making each one in MLCAD would probably take me a year to (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available
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| (...) Highly unlikely. There are 2,500 parts * 20 colors = 50,000 images! It would be nice if you could generate parts from MLCAD in Batch Mode. That is, you'd just specify the color, part and image size as parameters on the command line and the (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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