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Hi all, Some visitors to my site have asked whether it'd be possible to include in the ldraw model files that I provide the unofficial parts used in them. As this is a very sensible request, I was wondering if there is any way to do this (...) (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Automatic unofficial part detection?
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(...) You could just MPD the model. MPDWorkshop will include in the MPD any parts that are not in the P or PARTS folders. This is how I distribute my models the official sets. Note that this will only work if you haven't mixed the unofficial parts (...) (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I guess that is the origin of all my troubles ... At the risk of testing your patience (a flu keeps me from being very coherent today) - how would I be able to see parts whose files are outside those dirs in the Mlcad parts library window? (...) (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) You can put them in the MODELS directory. The drawback to this is that you see all the unofficial primitives as well but this is practically insignificant. The proper process to do this is: 1. Download the ldrawunf.zip 2. Unzip in a convenient (...) (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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Thanks for the info, Orion. I have to say I much prefer to create a 100% official ldraw setup to test the files and have the "working one" with official and non-official parts mixed up. For all my purposes (except when actually distributing the (...) (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Instead, can we not ensure that every official part has a line "0 Official LDraw part" or some such in the header? That way, it would be possible to just scan for that header, and you'd know whether the part is official or not. Only problem is (...) (21 years ago, 8-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Would that then imply that while you were tinkering with an existing part, you'd have to remove that line when first uploading to the Parts Tracker, and it would get added back in as it got released into an update? Or am I misunderstanding (...) (21 years ago, 8-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Yes, they do already. - from update 1997-01 to 2000-01 new official parts _usually_ have, in the header 0 Official LCad ..... or if they are corrections to the original library 0 Original LDraw Part YYYY-RR - for update 2000-02 the header (...) (21 years ago, 8-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) One way to solve both these problems would be to include a comment line for each revision in the header. Eg. 0 Revision: Part renumbered from 1234.dat Date: 1.2.2004. Author: John Citizen When it becomes an official update simply swap out (...) (21 years ago, 8-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) We have an unofficial convention for change history in the headers, but that is not necessary to keep track of versions - and can get a little unwieldy. Since the advent of the Parts Tracker (for update 2001-01), new or amended official parts (...) (21 years ago, 9-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad)
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