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Re: Automatic unofficial part detection?
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lugnet.cad
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Sun, 8 Feb 2004 01:09:38 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Ross Crawford wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Miguel Agullo wrote:
> > 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
> > automatically (i.e. an app that compares the parts used in a model with the
> > latest official library). If not, is anybody working on something along these
> > lines?
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> > One obvious solution is to have a 100% official "parallel" ldraw setup which
> > would flag all unofficial parts when I load the model in it. However, this is
> > far from clean.
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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.
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> Only problem is all existing parts would need to have this added (I notice there
> are some parts with only a description in the header...). Future parts could
> have it added when an update is being prepared.
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 this and it would only be for NEW parts, since any
revised part undergoing revision has an official part out there somewhere,
however obsolete?
If so that simplifys things I guess. What about part renumbers though?
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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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| (...) 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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