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(...) As the author of the meta command section of the 1.0.0.0 spec, my intention wasn't to twist the arms of developers into adopting the "!" prefix or the program name requirement. For non-official LDraw.org programs, I meant for these rules to be (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) To elaborate: Suppose you have a part abcdefg.dat with loads of subparts (Too many to name with the 8.3 restriction). Just make a new subdirectory LDRAW/PARTS/S/abcdefg/ and put the numbered subparts in there (like (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Darn! In that case I'd suggest making a short filename preparer as a backwards compatibility measure. Perhaps it would bring all longfilename parts into an MPD (with shortened names) or something similar (eg. creates short name versions (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) That's an interesting approach, but I don't know if it'll work for the subpart files that started this thread. I think mklist only handles files in the PARTS directory. The subpart filenames would be embedded in the part files that use them, (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Well I've just spent some time on another way. You can make a new version of mklist that works as follows: scan through the parts, if a filename is long then make a new copy of the file with a standardised short file name (possible assigned in (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Yeah, but there's always another way. One that preserves the precious backwards compatibility. In this case you could make more subdirectories in the official library. Like the LDRAW/P/48 directory that was created to avoid name conflicts (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Willy, I agree completely on this point. That is why the LSC created the LDraw file format specification 1.0.0. I have never used LDraw myself, but I know that for some very influential people in the LDraw community this is an issue. I did not (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Hi Kevin, frankly I never understood how and why a program (I've never used BTW) can set a standard! I don't use Office progs from Redmond but I doubt that the file format for Word2007 has to be compatible with Word for DOS 5.5. Hang on! (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Prefix character on meta commands?
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(...) I am no longer on the LSC, but I'll give my opinion. Given that the LPUB, SYNTH and MLCad's ROTATION meta's were defined before there was ever an LSC, before the LDraw file format 1.0.0.0 was officially ratified, or before the discussion in (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Need LDD 2.0 Help from the Experts on Making Instructions
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(...) I think 10183 instructions were done by hand. I believe the system follows the order you add your pieces but it will not preserve step statements in LDraw files any more :( Tim (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: LDD 2.0 immedeately locks up
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(...) Here's my me too post. I have the same issue on my P4 2.26GHz w/ ATI Radeon 8500 card. I had issues running earlier versions of 1.x on that hardware as well, but 1.6 runs okay. Incidentally, on my PIII 733 w/ GeForce2 card, after repeatedly (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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(...) Do you have on-board video, or a plug-in card? I have been informed by LDD QA that many motherboards with built-in video have problems running 3-d applications. Your PC is exhibiting the same symptoms as mine, which has on-board video, see (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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I start LDD 2.0 & it opens to a selection of pre-built models, free play, etc. Selecting any of these slows the computer to almost a dead halt. I'm running Windows XP sp2, with 3 Ghz & 300 Gb & updated DirectX. Anyone have any idea what's going on? (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) Hi Willy, Nice explanation about naming. The issue of 8.3 nomenclature falls under the purvue of the Standards Committee. Before they can remove that constraint, they will have to work with the community of tool developers to understand the (...) (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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How do you control building instruction steps with LDD 2.0? It doesn't seem to preserve them when you upgrade 1.6 models or import LDraw models. I assume there must be a way because the 10183 hobby train models have organized instructions. Does (...) (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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guys, I'm currently working on 004219b.dat - Sticker System with Australia Flag Pattern. unfortunately there is no rule for subparts in the sticker standard: (URL) to the PT references: (URL) are subparts numbered? A: Subparts, which are stored in (...) (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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guys, flicking through the specs I got a bit confused and seek clarification (preferably from the LSC) we have the list of Official META Commands: (URL) list of currently known META Commands: (URL) LDraw File Format 1.0.0 proposal (oddly there is no (...) (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Uh, oh, you may have an argument to model the underside of baseplates in LDraw: (URL) (It may not be obvious, but I'm being at least somewhat tongue-in-cheek here.) --Travis (18 years ago, 26-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Light is too bright!
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(...) In my 1998 Christmas picture (URL) (go to the end of the page) I hand adjusted the lights (one inside each candle) quite a bit. One important part was the material settings (Color46_t), as the clear L3P parts are much *too* clear. Most of the (...) (18 years ago, 26-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Wow! Thank you! I didn't know that. I tried some different options, and found that the "black" light (color 0, which isn't really black) surpringly produced the best balance between taillights noticably on and not spreading too much red light (...) (18 years ago, 25-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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