| | Re: New Parts Drawings - Plates, Slope, Track Pieces Mark Bellis
| | | (...) Please don't go to a lot of trouble on my account! It's just that I usually post jpegs or bitmaps of things to my Brickshelf, since anyone can view them without any special software. I'm not seriously into CAD! If I had the facilities to (...) (20 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
| | | | | | | | Re: New Parts Drawings - Plates, Slope, Track Pieces Larry Pieniazek
| | | | | (...) Please consider not posting bitmaps. They are very space intensive and take a long time to load. Instead use a lossless compressed format like .gif if you can. In my view jpegs are not as good for things like line drawings, they are better for (...) (20 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Visio and Picture formats (was New Parts Drawings - Plates, Slope, Track Pieces) Mark Bellis
| | | | | | (...) I only use bitmaps when they are smaller than the equivalent jpeg - ie they are monochrome ones. This was the case for the parts I've drawn so far. I've used jpegs for colour pictures up to now. I did a test with the 4x4 round plate drawing: (...) (20 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.cad, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | Re: New Parts Drawings - Plates, Slope, Track Pieces Darrell Urbien
| | | | | (...) Hi, No real "trouble" - I do this for a living. It's the DAT conversion that's slightly fussy. If you're not using MLCAD with your custom parts, I don't know if there's much demand otherwise! So I may as well just skip that bit. (...) Somehow (...) (20 years ago, 6-Feb-05, to lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
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