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Subject:	Re: LSC - request for defining a WORKING connection database standard
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.lcd, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
Date:	Sun, 17 Jul 2005 19:07:57 GMT
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I'm not sure where this standard definition is at these days, or whether it could be used to automate what I'm doing by a clever MetaWiki robot coder, but I (and others) started capturing some connection information in BrickWiki ( http://brickwiki.zapto.org/ ) You can see what we've created so far here: http://brickwiki.zapto.org/index.php/Category:Connnection_Types and the articles in that category... Do people think this is valuable? Would people like to take a crack at adding more types? Or rendering the needed images for the types there already? or refining the ConnectionTypeBox? Wikis are editable by anyone... if enough people capture what they know on BrickWiki, this one will be really cool.

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		Re: LSC - request for defining a WORKING connection database standard
(...) While a connection database could be helpful, I just cant help thinking that a relationship/constrain system like solidworks and Pro/Engineer use could acheive a lot more. It could certainly be a start, then simplified - so the CAD (...) (19 years ago, 18-Jul-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.lcd, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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		Re: LSC - request for defining a WORKING connection database standard
(...) I like the idea of connections. I think it's really neat and would like to see it realised. I support asking LSC to look into this further. But I fear that requiring authors to submit a .cdl file might be increasing the barriers to entry for (...) (20 years ago, 19-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.lcd, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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