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Re: Whoops! Correction re: image conversion?
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Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:47:57 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> In lugnet.publish, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> > In lugnet.publish, Shaun Sullivan writes:
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> > > Does anyone, *anyone* out there know how to make a .dwf file into something
> > > useful, like a .jpg or a .gif? I've got a pair of fantastic .dwf files that
> > > I can view in a viewer here at work - they're two side views of a train that
> > > I'd like to include on a poster - but I can't for the life of me get them
> > > saved in any useful format. I've scanned the web for utilities, but none of
> > > them have worked satisfactorily yet. One or two are functional, but they
> > > lose so much resolution that it's not worth it.
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> Actually, I read ".dxf" and somehow misread it as a dwf. But
> VoloView will get you as far as a .dxf or an .xml, and maybe
> you can take it from there:
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> http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/section/0,,837637-123112,00.html
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> Again, it's a freebie. Yay! (TurboCad will apparently take
> your conversion the full 100 yards.)
Lindsay, you're a lifesaver!
I tried voloview, but it wasn't performing as advertised ... but then I went to
Turbocad! Free 15 day trial! And more functionality than I could possibly
hope to comprehend! It took me a while to wend my way through all of the
interface and find what I was looking for, but at the end, I got exactly what I
was after:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/sullis3/Trains/Hudson/Dev/hudson464dims.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/sullis3/Trains/Hudson/Dev/hudson464parts.jpg
Now, aren't those pretty? I was so pleased to stumble on those, since they fit
right in with my current Hudson project.
Thanks again, Lindsay.
-s
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| (...) VoloView will get you as far as a .dxf or an .xml, and maybe you can take it from there: (URL) Again, it's a freebie. Yay! (TurboCad will apparently take your conversion the full 100 yards.) best LFB (24 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.publish)
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