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(...) I forgot to say that Magenta was the color I picked to be the "transparent" color because I did not use any magenta or anything remotely close to Magenta, in my bitmap image. This may well be a "MS Paint" thing, I forget where I was working at (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Oops. Forgot the bit about the viewpoint. That can be passed to LDraw as well. It's the -a parameter. Steve (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) But rotations in 22.5 degree increments would be better, of course, and 11.25 might even be best, as we are then at the resolution of a curve segment, no? Since that requires rather complex calculations, it's more natural to have a rendering (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Larry and Newsgroup readers, (...) Sorry about the bad post mapping, sould of used reply. (...) Used Track designer for track layout and you got it bitmap editor for the rest. (...) I'll see what I can do. (...) I don't have ldraw, is it like ACAD? (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yep. Pass in a .DAT filename, and include the -MS parameter (for Mode Save). A bitmap will be created in the ldraw\bitmaps directory. It will have the same filename. If there are step commands in the DAT file, several bitmaps will be created, (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I feel more confident I will get my sets now. I noticed on Kaplan's site they updated it to show the close out price on both the close out section and the screen you get by just doing a search. I figure if they can't deliver the product, why (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.shopping)
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Hi Put me also to level 3 I did some searches on the internet some month ago. Here a good comparison. It seems to me that the mrc stuff could be a solution for our lego train problems. Daniel Heppler Burgdorf, Switzerland Matthew Bates schrieb in (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well, my order has already been sent to the manufacturer, they are going to drop-ship them direct. Unfortunately, they do NOT include the 6649 and 6535 anymore. FORTUNATELY, since my orders were so large, I was able to use the catalog special (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) I'm not too familiar with LDraw, can I call it with a design (.DAT file) and a viewpoint and get back a bitmap somehow? Matt (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) A stand-alone utility could call LDraw (or LDLite) to produce the images, but extract the (port) information directly from the .DAT file. Calling into LDraw/LDLite is pretty easy -- both programs are command-line driven. The utility would have (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dev)
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