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Subject:	Re: New Parts Drawings - Plates, Slope, Track Pieces
Newsgroups:	lugnet.parts.custom
Date:	Sat, 5 Feb 2005 15:03:23 GMT
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In lugnet.parts.custom, Mark Bellis wrote:

In lugnet.parts.custom, Darrell Urbien wrote:

In lugnet.parts.custom, Mark Bellis wrote:

Are you doing 3rd angle projection or 3D?

10 minutes is a lot less than it took me in Paint. I suppose once you’re trained in AutoCAD, a lot of things are quick.

Could you post jpegs of the results?

Hi,

Yeah, I’m working in ACIS Solids, then exporting to STL, then from STL2DAT. I’ll try to do a few more this weekend and post the results to the same folder. Something to do between TO soundbytes, anyway.

Is the DAT file helpful at all, or do you just want the orthographic views/renderings? The views and images are cake compared to futzing with converting the 3D model to DAT!

Darrell

Please don’t go to a lot of trouble on my account!

It’s just that I usually post jpegs or bitmaps

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 continuous tone photos.

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 actually make some of these parts, I might think more seriously about CAD. I did download MLCAD, but have hardly used it yet due to lack of time. If I did CAD I wouldn’t have time to build! You can see from my Brickshelf that I major in trains and technic: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=mbellis My CAD expertise is more developed in circuit diagrams (see technic mindstorms folder), but this is 2D and very quick in Visio, now that I’ve drawn a few component symbols.

Would you consider sharing your Visio library occasionally? Just a zip would be great. Visio is a great tool I think!

Thanks!

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		Visio and Picture formats (was New Parts Drawings - Plates, Slope, Track Pieces)
(...) 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)

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		Re: New Parts Drawings - Plates, Slope, Track Pieces
(...) 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)

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