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1 LDForge
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4 Parts author's CAD for LDraw System of Tools. LDForge is part-oriented rather than model-oriented.
5 Its goal is to ease up the process of creation and modification of LDraw parts and help level the
6 learning curve involved by allowing polygon drawing, primitive selection, quick, direct access to
7 the LDraw code of individual objects, drawing overlays of part photos and providing interfaces to
8 commonly used utilities.
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10 Features:
11 * List view ala MLCAD with multi-selection. One object per line, one line per object. Items not colored main or edge color (16/24) have their color reflected in the list view for identifying.
12 * Support for multiple open files (development version only)
13 * Parse error recovery, if a line/object cannot be parsed properly it will be displayed as an errorneous object. This object can be selected and its contents edited and have it reparsed, so you can fix these errors within LDForge.
14 * 6 camera modes plus a free-angle one.
15 * Drawing mode that allows you to literally draw polygons and lines into the screen.
16 * A simple primitive generator
17 * Object hiding
18 * Select by color or type
19 * Quick edge-lining, takes any number of polygons and creates edgelines around them
20 * Ability to edit object's LDraw code directly
21 * Inlining, plus deep inlining which grinds down to polygons only
22 * Auto-coloring (sets color to the first found unused color), uncoloring (sets colors to main/edge color based on type)
23 * Coordinate rounding, inverting, coordinate replacing, flipping, quad splitting
24 * Screenshotting
25 * Vertex object for coordinate storage
26 * LDConfig.ldr parsing for color information
27 * Ability to launch Philo's utilities and automatically merge in output
28 * BFC red/green view (incomplete)
29 * Wireframe mode, axis drawing
30 * Image overlays for getting part data from pictures
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32 Forum thread: http://forums.ldraw.org/read.php?24,8711

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