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Re: LDraw and the Track Designer (Was: Next show)
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dev
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Wed, 17 Feb 1999 13:44:20 GMT
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On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 21:56:35 GMT, blisses@worldnet.att.net (Steve Bliss)
wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:12:40 GMT, "Matthew Bates"
> <train_depot@yahoo.com> wrote:
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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?
>
> 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.
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> If there are step commands in the DAT file, several bitmaps will be
> created, one for each step. The bitmap files will be named using the
> first six characters in the source file name, with a two-digit sequence
> number appended.
Oops. Forgot the bit about the viewpoint. That can be passed to LDraw
as well. It's the -a parameter.
Steve
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