Text in LEGO Drawings

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Mark Westwood's Avatar (by Gravatar)Mark Westwood posted on
February 8, 2008, 9:03 am
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Hi

I'm looking for a Lego 3D CAD program which will allow me to add text
to drawings, preferably on the surface of bricks  so that it looks as
if the bricks have writing on them.

I looked at Lego's own CAD system and couldn't find any way of adding
such text, and the MLCad documentation is silent on the topic.

Suggestions ?

Thanks

Mark

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Dean Earley's Avatar (by Gravatar)Dean Earley posted on
February 8, 2008, 2:33 pm
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You probably want one of the bitmap to dat utilities.
I don't use any myself so not sure which is the best.

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Anders Isaksson's Avatar (by Gravatar)Anders Isaksson posted on
February 8, 2008, 3:08 pm
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In BlockCAD (see sig) you can create parts with an arbitrary bitmap on one
side. OTOH, BlockCAd is more limited in the placement of parts than the
other LEGO CAD programs (studs up, straight placement). OTTH, BlockCAD is
*very* easy to build with, and you can export your models in LDRAW format
and load them into the other editors (without the bitmaps, though).

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Jeff Findley's Avatar (by Gravatar)Jeff Findley posted on
February 9, 2008, 11:18 am
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Look at the LDRAW website: www.ldraw.org

Failing that, try asking in the CAD group(s) on Lugnet: on www.lugnet.com

Jeff
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Jacob Sparre Andersen's Avatar (by Gravatar)Jacob Sparre Andersen posted on
February 11, 2008, 6:08 am
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I have put text on bricks using the 3005.dat alphabet and a bit of
manual editing of parts.  You can see the result here:

   http://lego.jacob-sparre.dk/Om_LEGO/3001.dk/3001.dk-logo.mpd

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Jeff Findley's Avatar (by Gravatar)Jeff Findley posted on
February 11, 2008, 9:28 am
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Good to see I'm not the only "old timer" still hanging around here, although
I don't think I was ever quite as active as you.  ;-)

Jeff
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