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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 19:12:40 GMT
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Steve Bliss writes: > 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. 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

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		Re: LDraw and the Track Designer (Was: Next show)
(...) 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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		Re: LDraw and the Track Designer (Was: Next show)
(...) 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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