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Subject:	Re: LDraw and the Track Designer (Was: Next show)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dev
Date:	Tue, 16 Feb 1999 18:35:18 GMT
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On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 17:25:29 GMT, "Matthew Bates" <train_depot@yahoo.com> wrote: > If it were a stand-alone utility it would have to have the LDraw engine plus > TD file format knowledge. 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 to know some details of the LDraw file format and the TD file format. Steve

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		Re: LDraw and the Track Designer (Was: Next show)
(...) 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 (25 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dev)

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		Re: LDraw and the Track Designer (Was: Next show)
This sounds like an excellent idea, however I'm not sure how to implement it. If it were a built in feature of Track Designer it would require that the entire rendering engine of LDraw be built into TD. A bit daunting! If it were built into LDraw, (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dev)

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