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Cary Clark / FAQ / CAD / all

Are there any easy to remember part numbers?

These may not be easy to remember, but at least they are in series.

Bricks

3001

3002

3003

3004

3005

Plates

3020

3021

3022

3023

3024

45 Slopes

3037

3038

3039

3040

Tiles

3068

3069

3070

Also in series are these large plates:

6x24 3026

6x16 3027

6x12 3028

4x12 3029

4x10 3030

4x4 3031

4x6 3032

6x10 3033

2x8 3034

4x8 3035

6x8 3036

Is there an interactive LDraw viewer?

From Jacob Sparre Andersen: !

One is being developed at the moment. Development of LDraw related tools is discussed at http://www.lugnet.com/cad/dev/.

Where can I get LDLite?

From James Brown: !

http://www.gyugyi.com/l3g0/ldlite/

Where can I get LDAO (LDraw Add-On)?

From Steve Bliss:

http://members.home.com/steve.bliss/ldao/index.html

How do I view DAT files in /CAD/dat/ ?

From Jacob Sparre Andersen: !

You can use LDraw, LDraw Lite, or MLCad. The file downloaded from LUGNET is always named ldraw.cgi. You may want to rename it as you save it so you’ll know what the saved file represents. Also, by renaming it something.dat, Windows will be able to associate it with one of the editing programs.

From Steve Bliss: !

If you use Internet Explorer on Windows 98, you can set it up to associate the download with LDLite.

Open Windows Explorer (or just open a folder’s window).
From the View menu, select Folder Options.
Click the File Types tab.
Locate and select the “ldlite Document” entry in the Registered file types list.
Click Edit.
In the Edit dialog, type ‘application/x-ldraw’ (skip the quotes) in the Content Type (MIME) field.
Click OK.
Click OK on the Folder Options.

What does ‘inline’ mean, in the context of an LDraw data file?

From Steve Bliss: !

Inlining is the process of replacing a subfile reference with the contents of the subfile.

Like this:

b = 12*a a = c + 3

If you inlined a into b, you’d get:

b = 12*c + 36

Of course, it’s slightly more complicated in LDraw-world.

Inlining is good, because it allows you to design parts/models using several files, but only distribute a single LDraw file. Inlining is bad because each reference to a subfile must be replaced with the complete contents of the subfile, which can increase the file size by a large amount.

The only inlining tool that I know of is the inliner in LDraw Add-On.
http://members.home.com/steve.bliss/ldao/

How do I get a non-perspective view from L3P?

From Bram Lambrecht: !

For orthographic bricks ala L3P-LDLite-LEdit, I use -ca1:

C:\LDRAW\MODELS>l3p -o -cg30,45 -ca1 somedat.dat

From Lars C. Hassing: !

There’s even more information here:

http://www.netby.net/Nord/Mandelvej/Hassing/l3p_ca.html

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