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    Custom Minifig Torso DAT files. —Eric Kingsley
   I have been working at creating some custom Minifig Torso DAT files for LDraw. I should preface everything by saying that I am NOT an LDraw Parts author. All of these were created by essentially taking a plain torso file and applying these like a (...) (17 years ago, 6-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX) ! 
   
        Re: Custom Minifig Torso DAT files. —Steve Bliss
   (...) Neat! (...) For further work on custom torsos, I recommend grabbing the program called Quad 2 Dat. This is a fairly easy 2D program, made specifically for people creating LDraw patterned parts. The main problem with Quad2Dat is that it's (...) (17 years ago, 6-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
   
        Re: Custom Minifig Torso DAT files. —Travis Cobbs
     (...) My understanding is that you need to save often, with changing filenames. It apparently sometimes crashes during save after it has already clobbered the file. --Travis (17 years ago, 7-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
   
        Re: Custom Minifig Torso DAT files. —Eric Kingsley
   (...) Thanks Steve, I took your recommendation and tried Quad2Dat. I can see what you mean about it being buggy (and incomplete). It is too bad development on it didn't continue it seems to have a lot of potential. For simple images I can see it (...) (17 years ago, 7-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
   
        Re: Custom Minifig Torso DAT files. —Jim DeVona
   (...) If it's any help, (URL) this torso DAT file> already contains borders which leave a nice rectangular opening in the front. Just delete everything that follows those lines and you may have an easier time adapting your images to fit the (...) (17 years ago, 7-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
 

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