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Re: New LeoCAD version

Philo — 2013-03-07T17:48:44

Yes, that's what I meant! Thanks ;)
Yup, will do, thanks for reporting.

Philo

Re: New LeoCAD version

Leonardo Zide — 2013-03-07T17:29:08

  The link was missing a '/' at the end, http://leocad.org/files/ will
redirect you the Google page, I'll fix the server to redirect without the
slash as well.

  The duplicate colors are a bug, I've checked in a fix already. Thanks for
reporting!

  Having a built-in library wasn't my idea, I can't take credit for that.
The Debian people asked for an alternate library because from what I've
been told they don't consider CC2 free enough and LDraw refused to change
the license to CC3 after they asked. This was the only way to keep LeoCAD
in their main list of packages but I think it's good to keep the program
usable without any external files.

  I added a new splitter between the color list and the search combo to the
Qt branch so you'll be able to change the vertical size of the color
palette in the future, if I understood what you asked correctly.

  Also, can you mention to whoever maintains the LDraw colors that there's
a typo on color 150, Pearl_Very_Light_Grey in ldconfig.ldr? I think it
should be 'gray' like the other colors.



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Re: New LeoCAD version

Philo — 2013-03-07T08:09:17

Leonardo Zide a écrit :
The link is wrong, I guess it's this one?
http://code.google.com/p/leocad/downloads/list

Announced on LDraw forum 
http://forums.ldraw.org/read.php?11,7288,8505#msg-8505

Using the minimum built-in library (good idea BTW), the color palette is 
huge and contains many duplicates. Is this intended?
Speaking of colors, maybe it could be nice to be able to move the 
separator between colors and parts tree, to be able to better see color 
palette, at least temporarily.

Philo

New LeoCAD version

Leonardo Zide — 2013-03-06T23:12:59

  I've uploaded a new version to http://leocad.org/files with bug fixes and
feature requests from the past 2 months:

Version 0.79.3 (6/3/2013)

   - Improved camera rotation.
   - Renamed default view positions.
   - Added option to print Bill of Materials for a model.
   - Added a small built-in parts library in case a real one is not
   available.
   - Added export to Brick Link.
   - Added option to display piece ID and select the piece color to the
   HTML exporter.
   - Added drag and drop support from piece list on Linux.
   - Added middle mouse button and mouse wheel support on Linux.
   - Added camera rotate and zoom to the Minifig Wizard preview.
   - Fixed 3ds export colors.
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Re: LeoCAD export to 3ds translucence

Leonardo Zide — 2013-02-27T02:09:05

  I think I flipped the translucent and opaque colors. Are the translucent
colors showing opaque?


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LeoCAD export to 3ds translucence

David S — 2013-02-27T00:52:12

I'm trying to export some Lego models as .3ds (or .fbx, but the problem persists
through the conversion), but when I open them in 3d Studio 2013, the models
appear translucent, and I can't figure out why. I've tried flipping normals etc,
but nothing seems to work.

I'm linking some screenshots from both LeoCAD and 3ds of the same models/bricks
to hopefully illustrate the problem. Any help is appreciated, thanks.
http://imgur.com/a/Y3oVQ

Re: Linux UI patches

Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda — 2013-02-13T14:33:06

A Dilluns, 11 de febrer de 2013, Leonardo Zide va escriure:

<pedantic mode>
it's curious. But I have remembered that more than four years ago I 
recommended you to have just _one_ source for all platforms, and Qt offers 
that. [1]
</pedantic mode>

Qt it's great for all this kind of things. Really, I have developed programs 
that without change any line of source code, have I compiled and run, in 
Windows, MacOS and GNU/Linux.

The combination with cmake improve it, because qmake is great, but if you need 
to incorporate libraries that not use qt, it doesn't works quiet well as 
cmake. Also, a lot of projects are using cmake, so there's a lot of users.

Regards,

Leo


[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/leocad-KBwQgg6FT4s/11+TDStg7g< at >public.gmane.org/msg00114.html

Re: Pasting cameras

Leonardo Zide — 2013-02-12T23:39:43

  I didn't notice that it was declaring a new variable for the for loop
scope instead of setting it to 0. I've fixed all the warnings, even though
the other places looked safe.


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Re: Pasting cameras

Torbjörn Söderstedt — 2013-02-12T22:58:02


You can add -Wshadow to CPPFLAGS to get warnings about this, but that
implies fixing all places that currently use shadowing.
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Re: Pasting cameras

Torbjörn Söderstedt — 2013-02-12T22:48:02


 The counter isn't reset after counting the number of groups (because the
code declared a second variable called "i" that shadowed the first one). If
you don't have any groups you won't get any extra cameras.

Apparently I have 27 groups in the model I'm working on, Deleting the
cameras took about 20 minutes. It's fast now though.
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Re: Pasting cameras

Leonardo Zide — 2013-02-12T22:09:08

  There's no reason for multiple updates, I've fixed the code to only
update once if any camera was deleted.

  When were you seeing problems pasting cameras? It's working fine for me.


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Re: Part database creation tools - can someone direct me to wherethese can be found?

Leonardo Zide — 2013-02-12T21:59:04

  LeoCAD uses the LDraw file format so you ldraw.org has all the
documentation about the file format.

  If you want to use a custom library you have to point LeoCAD to the
folder or file that has your library by either entering the path in the
preferences dialog, using the -l command line option or the LEOCAD_LIB
environment variable. It can either be a directory or a zip file containing
all parts for your library.


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Part database creation tools - can someone direct me to where thesecan be found?

walkabouttigger — 2013-02-12T21:14:39

I am, once again, looking to use LeoCAD to model a different system of
building blocks and am wondering if there is documentation and/or tools
available to create a parts database more readily than using a GUI to
create each part/piece.

If I am missing something obvious as leocad.org, I apologise in advance and
would appreciate links to any appropriate information.

Thank you

Pasting cameras

Torbjörn Söderstedt — 2013-02-12T20:28:39

Fixed a sneaky bug that would create cameras when pasting (patch attached).

In Project::RemoveSelectedObjects, is there a reason for these two lines:
SystemUpdateCameraMenu(mCameras);
SystemUpdateCurrentCamera(NULL, m_ActiveView->mCamera, mCameras);
to be inside the loop? It makes deleting lots of cameras very slow.
Shouldn't it be enough to run it once after the loop?
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Re: Linux UI patches

Leonardo Zide — 2013-02-11T20:08:29

  Thanks for the patches! I've applied them to the trunk today.

  Just a heads up, I've started evaluating Qt as a replacement for GTK and
MFC and so far I like it. I don't know if I'll drop MFC yet (haven't been
able to compile Qt under win32) but since I've been able to get LeoCAD to
compile natively for OSX I'll probably use Qt instead of GTK to support
another OS without any extra work (I created the qtest branch for it if
anyone is interested in seeing how it looks).

  As for version control, I never thought about switching since I very
rarely get patches from other people and when you're the only person
developing, Git isn't much better than Subversion (I think in the past 2
months I got more patches than the last 2 years). To be honest I've never
used Git but I'll give it a try and see if I like it since it seems to be
popular nowadays.


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Linux UI patches

Torbjörn Söderstedt — 2013-02-10T00:10:46

The first patch will allow closing dialogs by pressing enter. Two small
unrelated changes though: text in about dialog is no longer editable, and
the counts in the array dialog will be remembered.

The second patch implements dragging pieces from the tree view.


Have you considered changing to a more modern versioning system (such as
Git)? That would make contributing a lot easier.
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Re: Camera rotation and mouse patches

Leonardo Zide — 2013-01-29T00:49:31


  I've fixed that one and added camera controls to the Minifig Wizard as
well.
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Re: Camera rotation and mouse patches

Torbjörn Söderstedt — 2013-01-28T23:26:20


The piece preview window still uses inverted zoom...
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Re: Camera rotation and mouse patches

Leonardo Zide — 2013-01-28T20:33:14


  I only allow reconfiguring the keyboard (and only on Windows), I don't
think this is a very popular feature but I can look into expanding it to
allow changing the mouse as well.



  I've been meaning to add some very basic tutorials to a dialog when you
start the program for the first time so people can learn about those
features. There are other things that aren't obvious as well, like dragging
a piece from the list into the project for example.

Don't have much GTK experience, but I added mouse wheel support (attached).

  Thanks for the patch! I've added it with a few small changes to make it
more cross platform.
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Re: Camera rotation and mouse patches

Leonardo Zide — 2013-01-28T20:26:43

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 3:56 AM, Carlo Stemberger <
carlo.stemberger-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:


  I mean using the mouse. A little known feature is that if you hold the
ALT key and the right, middle or left mouse button you can rotate, pan or
zoom without having to switch the current mode on the toolbar. The problem
is that on Linux some window managers won't pass those events to the
application and instead use them to resize the window.
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Re: Camera rotation and mouse patches

Carlo Stemberger — 2013-01-28T11:56:50

Il 27/01/2013 03:04, Leonardo Zide ha scritto:

In FreeCAD (the only 3D CAD available in Debian):

Axonometric → 0

Front → 1
Right → 3
Top → 2

Rear → 4
Left → 6
Bottom → 5


Ciao!

Carlo