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    So what *IS* a Building Instruction anyway? —Jake McKee
    At BrickFest this weekend, I had the good fortune to get together with a group of about 10-15 people to discuss Building Instruction techniques, the BI Portal site, and other BI topics. It was a great session, and my mind has been racing on BI (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
   
        Re: So what *IS* a Building Instruction anyway? —Oliver Kutsche
   (...) So is a .ldr/.dat/.mpd that's not separated into simply followable steps also an instruction? ..oli (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
   
        Re: So what *IS* a Building Instruction anyway? —Jake McKee
     (...) As far as the BI Portal is concerned. The ranking system/user feedback would theoritically look more highly upon those that did have steps than those that didn't. Jake --- Jake McKee LEGO Enthusiast Webmaster - BI Portal (URL) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
   
        Re: So what *IS* a Building Instruction anyway? —Steve Bliss
   (...) Sure -- I'd say an accurate ldraw file is a very detailed document, specifying exactly what is in a model, and how it's put together. You can manually step through any model file; in MLCAD, change your settings to only display up to the (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
   
        Re: So what *IS* a Building Instruction anyway? —Jacob Sparre Andersen
   [ XFUT lugnet.cad ] (...) Yes, but sometimes it is not exactly in an ideal form for the renderers we have at hand today. It would for example be practical, if it was possible: * to tell the renderer that something ought to be rendered as a (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad)
   
        Re: So what *IS* a Building Instruction anyway? —Steve Bliss
   (...) Hmm. LDAO can do this. Or, it used to be able to. In the HTML instruction generator, it would scan for 0 SUB meta-statements in the main text. the 0 SUB line(s) would reference files that the HTML-IG would render as an inset subassembly. I (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad)
   
        Re: So what *IS* a Building Instruction anyway? —Jacob Sparre Andersen
   (...) If you get around to fixing it, then I would appreciate it, if you could seperate the code in operating system specific and non-operating system specific parts. Where is the syntax for the "SUB" meta-statements documented? Play well, Jacob (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad)
 

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