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Methods of converting the entire parts library to mesh, with connection data |
Posted by: Kuemmerle - 2023-06-20, 14:52 - Forum: LDraw File Processing and Conversion
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Hello everyone, this is my first post on here and ill admit to not having all that much knowledge on ldcad. I do have a project for an online editor where people can utilize an ai model to connect between any number of technic pieces, and to do that i first need a library of parts in a format readable to threejs. On top of that, i also need connection data for all of these parts, so here is my solution i came up with, to generate the connection data automatically. Excuse the top bit that you guys probably already know, i was sending this document to alot of places. Let me know what you think and if im way over complicating things and a library for all the matching parts is available for a tool that will be commercialized in the future. Link to document
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Getting started |
Posted by: Daniel Helland - 2023-06-17, 16:49 - Forum: Parts Authoring
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Hey All,
I'm trying to use LDPE. I was able to install it fine, no problems. But I really have no idea how to get started. I checked out the wiki, which seems to be broken, as well as the old wiki, which didn't really help me much.
I've used Onshape a bit, as well as Tinkercad, but this doesn't really feel like those. Are there any good tutorials for getting started? Do I need to download the primitives or something else separately? (I'm on Linux, if that matters.)
Thanks in advance! I'm excited to try to build some custom LEGO-compatible parts!
Daniel
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Inconsistancy in description |
Posted by: Jaco van der Molen - 2023-06-15, 8:11 - Forum: Parts Authoring
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Hi all,
Currently I am modelling a lot in LDCad. (when not ;-)
I keep struggling finding some bricks here and there.
For example:
Part 30357 its description is "Plate 3 x 3 with 2 x 2 Corner Round" and is seen as a modified plate
Then 30565 is "Plate 4x4 Corner Round" and is seen as a normal plate?
I have always found this strange. Either both are normal plates or modified IMHO.
I think this has to do with the word... "with" in the description. Does LDCad not categorize parts with "with" in the name, as "modified"?
So we should consider changing the description of 30565 to "Plate 4x4 with Corner Round"?
There are more plates that seem to be categorized as normal, but are in fact modified.
For example: - Both 39613 and 46342 heart shaped plates. "Plate 3x3 Heart Shape" should be "Plate 3x3 with Heart Shape"?
- A real outsider in the normal Plate category IMHO is 4590 Plate 1x4 Offset.
- The most strange part in the Plate category, though unofficial, is 50408 Projectile Launcher 2 x 10 x 3 Tornado Spinner Launcher Base. How and why is this a Plate? ;-)
The list goes on....
What about 6161 Plate 1x1 round? Normal or modified. We cannot add the word "with" to its description. Could remain normal then.
Does anyone feel the same as me, and think that a Plate is only a straight plate (1x1, 1x2, 1x3, ...., 2x2, 2x3, 2x4, ..., 4x6, 8x10, etc, etc)
All other "plates" should be Plate Modified.
Then again, decisions should be made about plates like the 2x2 Corner plate (2420) and 4x4 Corner (2639).
The could be normal plates.
What do you all think?
We had the same discussion about some tiles I think?
A real outsiders here for example is 30358 Tile 2x2 with Jet Engine.
Shouldn't there be a "Tile Modified" category, so again, tiles are only tiles without any modification.
We could use the word "with" here to filter that out and create a new bin in LDCad, I think?
The same goes for some Bricks too BTW: 30136 Brick 1x2 log for example is a "normal" brick, not "modified....
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