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| Hi all, I know LeoCAD can view DAT files, but can it view MPD files. If not, does anybody know how I can change an MPD file in MLCAD to a pure DAT? I'm not sure if it's possible, but thanks for any help. Kyle (21 years ago, 25-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Kyle, LeoCAD can NOT view .MPD files. There is NO easy way to make a .MPD file into a .ldr/.dat file that will be viewable when done. The issue is that when you make a .mpd file into a .ldr by taking out the 0 FILE line from within the .MPD (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| "Ahui Herrera" <jedi_agh@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:HIt21E.12GH@lugnet.com... (...) files. (...) with (...) I think I've managed to "flatten" an MPD file into an ldr or dat by exporting instruction images from MLCAD; if I recall correctly, it (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) This morning I checked in support to read MPD files, so if you can run the CVS version you should be able to load your files fine now. Leonardo (21 years ago, 30-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Apparently LeoCAD can not load MPD files. > If not, does (...) Yes. Together with the original specification of the MPD format I wrote a "MPD Splitter". You should be able to download it from: (URL) well, Jacob (21 years ago, 30-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) This isn't really 'easy', but you can: 1. Use either splitmpd or empeedy to separate the MPD into LDR files (use a separate directory to store them!) 2. Use LDAO's Inliner to bring the submodel files into the main file. Steve (21 years ago, 31-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Or split using MPDWorkshop and inline useing my DeSubPart plugin for LDraw Design Pad. --Orion (21 years ago, 31-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Yes, this is right. I frequently build in MLCad using multipart models. In fact if you build your base model as a separate part (explicitly create a new sub-model when starting a building session) when you are happy with the design export that (...) (21 years ago, 31-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Hi Kyle, LPub can both create and split MPD files. Kevin (...) (21 years ago, 2-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad)
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