Ok. This is a continuation to one of my previous posts on how to
implement user view control to a 3D-CAD drawing.

Animated gif's seemed to be the easiest and cheapest (free) approach.
Link below is what I came up with. This is what I came up with:

http://www.garagewoodworks.com/Bookcase.php

Please let me know how it loads/handles for you. I have DSL and it
loads reasonably fast

Thanks in advance for any feedback (design, html, or otherwise)

-Brian

GarageWoodworks wrote:
Ok. This is a continuation to one of my previous posts on how to
implement user view control to a 3D-CAD drawing.

Animated gif's seemed to be the easiest and cheapest (free) approach.
Link below is what I came up with. This is what I came up with:

http://www.garagewoodworks.com/Bookcase.php

Please let me know how it loads/handles for you. I have DSL and it
loads reasonably fast

Thanks in advance for any feedback (design, html, or otherwise)

Try this, done with the free web exporter for Sketchup.

http://www.e-woodshop.net/Hutch-web/...309_index.html

Let me know if it works in your brower ... it worked fine in Firefox for me.

--
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Last update: 10/22/08
KarlC@ (the obvious)

"Swingman" wrote in message
...
GarageWoodworks wrote:
Ok. This is a continuation to one of my previous posts on how to
implement user view control to a 3D-CAD drawing.

Animated gif's seemed to be the easiest and cheapest (free) approach.
Link below is what I came up with. This is what I came up with:

http://www.garagewoodworks.com/Bookcase.php

Please let me know how it loads/handles for you. I have DSL and it
loads reasonably fast

Thanks in advance for any feedback (design, html, or otherwise)

Try this, done with the free web exporter for Sketchup.

http://www.e-woodshop.net/Hutch-web/...309_index.html

Let me know if it works in your brower ... it worked fine in Firefox for
me.

--
www.e-woodshop.net
Last update: 10/22/08
KarlC@ (the obvious)

Brian

Worked for me in IE 7

It did a little time for the images to load (10 seconds). I have DSL as
well

I think there is a way to put all of your images in one file so they load
quicker. I have limited web knowledge but IIRC I read about that before.
Maybe someone else has heard about it or knows more.

Larry C

GarageWoodworks said:

Ok. This is a continuation to one of my previous posts on how to
implement user view control to a 3D-CAD drawing.

Animated gif's seemed to be the easiest and cheapest (free) approach.
Link below is what I came up with. This is what I came up with:

http://www.garagewoodworks.com/Bookcase.php

Please let me know how it loads/handles for you. I have DSL and it
loads reasonably fast

Thanks in advance for any feedback (design, html, or otherwise)

Looks OK other than the large number of files which are downloaded.
Drawing1.jpg through Drawing34.jpg totaled 7.24 megabytes!

An animated GIF is actually several images stored in one GIF file.
FWIW, what you are using is not an animated GIF but rather a
Javascript routine which scrolls through cached JPG images.
(Your mouse movements scroll through caches images via Javascript.)

Try this: (Only 375k bytes - vector info stored as XML in HTML page)
(Requires an eDrawings plug-in download - automatic on IE.)
http://webpages.charter.net/videodoc...teAssembly.htm

VRML is similar format should you desire this kind of 3D functionality
with low download overheads.


Greg G.

Greg G. said:

VRML is similar format should you desire this kind of 3D functionality
with low download overheads.

If you're really feeling froggy with 3D,
Look he
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender3D - About Blender

http://www.blender.org/ - download (Free)
(Available for Windows, Linux, MacOS, Solaris, and Irix
in both 32 and 64 bit configurations.)

and he
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X3D - X3D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrml - VRML (deprecated)

All Free!
FWIW,

Greg G.

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:47:15 -0800 (PST), the infamous GarageWoodworks
scrawled the following:

Ok. This is a continuation to one of my previous posts on how to
implement user view control to a 3D-CAD drawing.

Animated gif's seemed to be the easiest and cheapest (free) approach.
Link below is what I came up with. This is what I came up with:

http://www.garagewoodworks.com/Bookcase.php

Please let me know how it loads/handles for you. I have DSL and it
loads reasonably fast

DSL here, reasonably slow. That's an interesting angle you used, too.
I want to reach out and catch it from falling as I rotate it to the
side view. Har! So, did SketchUp output that anim for you? Cool. I
really must start using it.


Thanks in advance for any feedback (design, html, or otherwise)

Dat's some oogly maple, Brian.


Oh, one last thing. I didn't hear any flutes. groan

P.S: The reason it works better in MS Internet Exploder is because you
designed it in MS Page Affront. Simple!

--
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare;
it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
-- Seneca

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:29:31 -0600, the infamous Swingman
scrawled the following:

GarageWoodworks wrote:
Ok. This is a continuation to one of my previous posts on how to
implement user view control to a 3D-CAD drawing.

Animated gif's seemed to be the easiest and cheapest (free) approach.
Link below is what I came up with. This is what I came up with:

http://www.garagewoodworks.com/Bookcase.php

Please let me know how it loads/handles for you. I have DSL and it
loads reasonably fast

Thanks in advance for any feedback (design, html, or otherwise)

Try this, done with the free web exporter for Sketchup.

http://www.e-woodshop.net/Hutch-web/...309_index.html

Let me know if it works in your brower ... it worked fine in Firefox for me.

Ditto here. And I think he did use SketchUp. (I peered into his
page's PHP and CSS code.)

--
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare;
it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
-- Seneca

On Nov 25, 7:48*am, Larry Jaques
wrote:
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:29:31 -0600, the infamous Swingman
scrawled the following:



GarageWoodworks wrote:
Ok. *This is a continuation to one of my previous posts on how to
implement user view control to a 3D-CAD drawing.

Animated gif's seemed to be the easiest and cheapest (free) approach.
Link below is what I came up with. *This is what I came up with:

http://www.garagewoodworks.com/Bookcase.php

Please let me know how it loads/handles for you. *I have DSL and it
loads reasonably fast

Thanks in advance for any feedback (design, html, or otherwise)

Try this, done with the free web exporter for Sketchup.

http://www.e-woodshop.net/Hutch-web/...309_index.html

Let me know if it works in your brower ... it worked fine in Firefox for me.

Ditto here. *And I think he did use SketchUp. (I peered into his
page's PHP and CSS code.)

--
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare;
it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * -- Seneca

Used Sketch up to generate the code and substituted the sketchup JPG's
with my TurboCad JPGs.

On Nov 25, 7:44*am, Larry Jaques
wrote:
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:47:15 -0800 (PST), the infamous GarageWoodworks
scrawled the following:

Ok. *This is a continuation to one of my previous posts on how to
implement user view control to a 3D-CAD drawing.

Animated gif's seemed to be the easiest and cheapest (free) approach.
Link below is what I came up with. *This is what I came up with:

http://www.garagewoodworks.com/Bookcase.php

Please let me know how it loads/handles for you. *I have DSL and it
loads reasonably fast

DSL here, reasonably slow. *That's an interesting angle you used, too.
I want to reach out and catch it from falling as I rotate it to the
side view. *Har! *So, did SketchUp output that anim for you? *Cool. I
really must start using it.

I used sketchup to generate the code and substituted the sketchup
files with my own TCAD JPG's.



Thanks in advance for any feedback (design, html, or otherwise)

Dat's some oogly maple, Brian. *

I know. Cherry looks nicer. Either I cant figure out how to get it
to render correctly or its just crappy at wood rendering.


Oh, one last thing. I didn't hear any flutes. *groan

Good one! :^)



P.S: The reason it works better in MS Internet Exploder is because you
designed it in MS Page Affront. *Simple!

--
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare;
it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * -- Seneca

On Nov 25, 7:37*am, Greg wrote:
Greg G. said:

VRML is similar format should you desire this kind of 3D functionality
with low download overheads.

If you're really feeling froggy with 3D,
*Look hehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender3D- About Blender

http://www.blender.org/- download (Free)
(Available for Windows, Linux, MacOS, Solaris, and Irix
in both 32 and 64 bit configurations.)

and hehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X3D- X3Dhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrml- VRML (deprecated)

All Free!
FWIW,

Greg G.

I'll check that out. Thanks!

On Nov 25, 7:19*am, Greg wrote:
GarageWoodworks said:

Ok. *This is a continuation to one of my previous posts on how to
implement user view control to a 3D-CAD drawing.

Animated gif's seemed to be the easiest and cheapest (free) approach.
Link below is what I came up with. *This is what I came up with:

http://www.garagewoodworks.com/Bookcase.php

Please let me know how it loads/handles for you. *I have DSL and it
loads reasonably fast

Thanks in advance for any feedback (design, html, or otherwise)

Looks OK other than the large number of files which are downloaded.
Drawing1.jpg through Drawing34.jpg totaled *7.24 megabytes!

An animated GIF is actually several images stored in one GIF file.
FWIW, what you are using is not an animated GIF but rather a
Javascript routine which scrolls through cached JPG images.
(Your mouse movements scroll through caches images via Javascript.)

Yeah. I goofed with the post. I actually have an animated gif also
that is 200kb. I like the user interactivity of the JavaScript.



Try this: *(Only 375k bytes - vector info stored as XML in HTML page)
(Requires an eDrawings plug-in download - automatic on IE.)http://webpages.charter.net/videodoc...teAssembly.htm

VRML is similar format should you desire this kind of 3D functionality
with low download overheads.

I looked into that. I would prefer something that didn't require
visitors to download a plugin. Most people are sketchy about doing
that sort of thing and will just leave.


Greg G.

On Nov 25, 7:02*am, "Larry C"
wrote:
"Swingman" wrote in message

...



GarageWoodworks wrote:
Ok. *This is a continuation to one of my previous posts on how to
implement user view control to a 3D-CAD drawing.

Animated gif's seemed to be the easiest and cheapest (free) approach.
Link below is what I came up with. *This is what I came up with:

http://www.garagewoodworks.com/Bookcase.php

Please let me know how it loads/handles for you. *I have DSL and it
loads reasonably fast

Thanks in advance for any feedback (design, html, or otherwise)

Try this, done with the free web exporter for Sketchup.

http://www.e-woodshop.net/Hutch-web/...309_index.html

Let me know if it works in your brower ... it worked fine in Firefox for
me.

--
www.e-woodshop.net
Last update: 10/22/08
KarlC@ (the obvious)

Brian

Worked for me in IE 7

It did a little time for the images to load (10 seconds). *I have DSL as
well

I think there is a way to put all of your images in one file so they load
quicker. I have limited web knowledge but IIRC I read about that before.
Maybe someone else has heard about it or knows more.

Larry C

Thanks. I'm going to try and compress each image more. They are
JPG's. I think I can get the files much smaller.

On Nov 25, 5:29*am, Swingman wrote:
GarageWoodworks wrote:
Ok. *This is a continuation to one of my previous posts on how to
implement user view control to a 3D-CAD drawing.

Animated gif's seemed to be the easiest and cheapest (free) approach.
Link below is what I came up with. *This is what I came up with:

http://www.garagewoodworks.com/Bookcase.php

Please let me know how it loads/handles for you. *I have DSL and it
loads reasonably fast

Thanks in advance for any feedback (design, html, or otherwise)

Try this, done with the free web exporter for Sketchup.

http://www.e-woodshop.net/Hutch-web/...309_index.html

Let me know if it works in your brower ... it worked fine in Firefox for me.

--www.e-woodshop.net
Last update: 10/22/08
KarlC@ (the obvious)

Karl,

I used Sketchup to generate the code then I substitued the Sketchup
files with TurboCad JPG's. I havent learned how to use Sketchup yet
and feel more comfortable with TCAD.

On Nov 25, 7:19*am, Greg wrote:
GarageWoodworks said:

Ok. *This is a continuation to one of my previous posts on how to
implement user view control to a 3D-CAD drawing.

Animated gif's seemed to be the easiest and cheapest (free) approach.
Link below is what I came up with. *This is what I came up with:

http://www.garagewoodworks.com/Bookcase.php

Please let me know how it loads/handles for you. *I have DSL and it
loads reasonably fast

Thanks in advance for any feedback (design, html, or otherwise)

Looks OK other than the large number of files which are downloaded.
Drawing1.jpg through Drawing34.jpg totaled *7.24 megabytes!

An animated GIF is actually several images stored in one GIF file.
FWIW, what you are using is not an animated GIF but rather a
Javascript routine which scrolls through cached JPG images.
(Your mouse movements scroll through caches images via Javascript.)

Try this: *(Only 375k bytes - vector info stored as XML in HTML page)
(Requires an eDrawings plug-in download - automatic on IE.)http://webpages.charter.net/videodoc...teAssembly.htm

VRML is similar format should you desire this kind of 3D functionality
with low download overheads.

Greg G.

OK. I was using Firefox the first time I tried and it didnt work.
'Then' I noticed what you wrote about IE slaps forehead.

That is very cool!! Unfortunately I think most will not download the
plugin and will leave the page (I could be wrong here).

Thanks again!

GarageWoodworks wrote:

Ok. This is a continuation to one of my previous posts on how to
implement user view control to a 3D-CAD drawing.

Animated gif's seemed to be the easiest and cheapest (free) approach.
Link below is what I came up with. This is what I came up with:

http://www.garagewoodworks.com/Bookcase.php

Please let me know how it loads/handles for you. I have DSL and it
loads reasonably fast

Thanks in advance for any feedback (design, html, or otherwise)

-Brian
Loaded very fast on my DSL and it worked fine in Firefox using Linux OS!
--
"You can lead them to LINUX
but you can't make them THINK"
Running Mandriva release 2008.0 free-i586 using KDE on i586
Website Address http://rentmyhusband.biz/

GarageWoodworks wrote:
I used Sketchup to generate the code then I substitued the Sketchup
files with TurboCad JPG's. I havent learned how to use Sketchup yet
and feel more comfortable with TCAD.

I've been using TurboCAD for about 10 years and it's almost second nature to me now. I've
tried to use Sketchup at least a dozen times over the past year or so, but I always hit
something that irks me to no end and I keep going back to TurboCAD.

--
Free bad advice available here.
To reply, eat the taco.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bbqboyee/

On Nov 25, 11:08*am, Steve Turner wrote:
GarageWoodworks wrote:
I used Sketchup to generate the code then I substitued the Sketchup
files with TurboCad JPG's. *I havent learned how to use Sketchup yet
and feel more comfortable with TCAD.

I've been using TurboCAD for about 10 years and it's almost second nature to me now. *I've
tried to use Sketchup at least a dozen times over the past year or so, but I always hit
something that irks me to no end and I keep going back to TurboCAD.

--
Free bad advice available here.
To reply, eat the taco.http://www.flickr.com/photos/bbqboyee/

I haven't been using TCAD as long as you, but I feel the same way.
IMHO SketchUp is very clunky to use.

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:47:15 -0800 (PST), GarageWoodworks
wrote:

Ok. This is a continuation to one of my previous posts on how to
implement user view control to a 3D-CAD drawing.

Animated gif's seemed to be the easiest and cheapest (free) approach.
Link below is what I came up with. This is what I came up with:

http://www.garagewoodworks.com/Bookcase.php

Please let me know how it loads/handles for you. I have DSL and it
loads reasonably fast

Thanks in advance for any feedback (design, html, or otherwise)

-Brian

Worked fine in IE 8, Safari 4, Google Chrome 3.0, and Firefox 3.5.
Worked in Opera 10 but the image noticeably flickered with a different
background showing with each image update. I am running WinXP.

On Nov 25, 12:28*pm, Jim Weisgram
wrote:
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:47:15 -0800 (PST), GarageWoodworks

wrote:
Ok. *This is a continuation to one of my previous posts on how to
implement user view control to a 3D-CAD drawing.

Animated gif's seemed to be the easiest and cheapest (free) approach.
Link below is what I came up with. *This is what I came up with:

http://www.garagewoodworks.com/Bookcase.php

Please let me know how it loads/handles for you. *I have DSL and it
loads reasonably fast

Thanks in advance for any feedback (design, html, or otherwise)

-Brian

Worked fine in IE 8, Safari 4, Google Chrome 3.0, and Firefox 3.5.
Worked in Opera 10 but the image noticeably flickered with a different
background showing with each image update. I am running WinXP.

Thanks Jim. I reduced the file size of the individual frames so it
loads faster.

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:15:53 -0800 (PST), GarageWoodworks
wrote:

On Nov 25, 12:28*pm, Jim Weisgram
wrote:
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:47:15 -0800 (PST), GarageWoodworks

wrote:
Ok. *This is a continuation to one of my previous posts on how to
implement user view control to a 3D-CAD drawing.

Animated gif's seemed to be the easiest and cheapest (free) approach.
Link below is what I came up with. *This is what I came up with:

http://www.garagewoodworks.com/Bookcase.php

Please let me know how it loads/handles for you. *I have DSL and it
loads reasonably fast

Thanks in advance for any feedback (design, html, or otherwise)

-Brian

Worked fine in IE 8, Safari 4, Google Chrome 3.0, and Firefox 3.5.
Worked in Opera 10 but the image noticeably flickered with a different
background showing with each image update. I am running WinXP.

Thanks Jim. I reduced the file size of the individual frames so it
loads faster.

Looks much smoother in all the browsers. My version of Opera just
autoupdated to 10.10 and while it still has an annoying flicker when
the image updates, it happens infrequently. It was strange, first I
saw it with each update, but after a screen refresh I don't see it
much, if at all.

Jim Weisgram wrote in
:

Looks much smoother in all the browsers. My version of Opera just
autoupdated to 10.10 and while it still has an annoying flicker when
the image updates, it happens infrequently. It was strange, first I
saw it with each update, but after a screen refresh I don't see it
much, if at all.


Looking at it in Opera 9 and 10.10 and no flicker here.

Jerry

[...snip...]

Looks much smoother in all the browsers. My version of Opera just
autoupdated to 10.10 and while it still has an annoying flicker when
the image updates, it happens infrequently. It was strange, first I
saw it with each update, but after a screen refresh I don't see it
much, if at all.

Well, I figured out the pattern. Once I load Opera from scratch, and
display the bookcase, and scroll through the JPG images, each image as
it displays will first clear the frame with a grey background, then
update with the current image with a white background. Once that image
has displayed, it is cached and further displays of that image are
much faster. Once all the images are cached, the flickering completely
goes away.

I only see this happen in Opera, and as "A Lurker" observed, it
doesn't happen to everyone using Opera.

Looking at the "flicker", it is the same background color as the rest
of the page. (bgcolor=#CCCCCC). Perhaps if the frame's background
color containing the images was #FFFFFF it wouldn't flicker.