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Re: Call for GUI part editor
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:34:24 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
In lugnet.cad, Steve Bliss wrote:
BTW, there are at least 2 reason not to use MLCAD to create parts which you want
to contribute to LDraw.org:

1. (General reason) it's more work than doing it in an enhanced text editor.
2. (Specifically) MLCAD does things to the file that are not allowed in official
part files, so you have to clean up the code afterwards (and then you can no
longer edit it in MLCAD).

Ummmm.... given that.... could you be so kind as to tell me what those are?
This way I can choose to/or not use MLCad and then clean things up afterwards.

I did a quick test with MLCAD 3.11 and noticed the following:
(Opened a partfile in MLCAD and save it under a different filename
and then compared the two files)

MLCad adds two rotation commands to the header
0 ROTATION CENTER 0 0 0 1 "Custom"
0 ROTATION CONFIG 0 0

MLCad replaces every
0 BFC INVERTNEXT
with
0 BFC CERTIFY INVERTNEXT

No harmfull things are:
MLCad removes unnesseccary spaces and empty lines
MLCad replaces numbers as 3.10 with 3.1
MLCad replaces numbers as .123 with 0.123

Niels



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  Re: Call for GUI part editor
 
(...) Thanks for doing this, Niels. (...) When creating part files, I frequently add 'unnecessary' spaces and empty lines to improve (IMO) readability. (...) Change-tracking is much simpler if lines of code aren't changed unless they actual need to (...) (18 years ago, 26-Apr-06, to lugnet.cad)

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  Re: Call for GUI part editor
 
(...) Ummmm.... given that.... could you be so kind as to tell me what those are? This way I can choose to/or not use MLCad and then clean things up afterwards. Thanks... (...) To be honest, I figured there were some approaches to this issue already (...) (18 years ago, 19-Apr-06, to lugnet.cad)

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