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Re: LDraw.org 2004-02 Parts Update Now Available
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Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:10:57 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Steve Bliss wrote:
In lugnet.cad, Willy Tschager wrote:
In lugnet.announce, Steve Bliss wrote:
The second part is also a baseplate, part 3947.dat, the craterplate.  This
one is 'big' because its DAT files take up over a megabyte of storage.
That's *big*.

IMHO this is just a tick too BIG. someone should contact the author asking
for an improved version. ROFL!!!

:)

I once made an altered version of the file, it cuts down the file size to 642Kb
(a savings of 37%).  But it also used 22 subfiles (ouch!).

sounds intriguing. do you still have a copy on your disk? may I have a look (for
educational purposes ;-)?

w.



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  Re: LDraw.org 2004-02 Parts Update Now Available
 
(...) Sure, I'll send it your way. I don't have it right handy; give me a day or two to dig it up. Although I'll warn you - some of the space savings was because I dropped a couple of decimals of precision. I figured measuring the surface to the (...) (20 years ago, 27-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad)

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  Re: LDraw.org 2004-02 Parts Update Now Available
 
(...) :) I once made an altered version of the file, it cuts down the file size to 642Kb (a savings of 37%). But it also used 22 subfiles (ouch!). Steve. (20 years ago, 23-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad)

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