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Re: Partsref DAT download problems?
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lugnet.cad
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Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:52:32 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Darrell Urbien wrote:
> Hi, can't seem to get this answered privately, so I'll try here... :)
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> I don't know if it's just me, but I have a couple of problems using Partsref.
> Many times in my CAD class, I will have a student who either has a physical part
> in his/her hand and wants to see the .DAT file for reference/dimensions OR s/he
> has the part number (e.g. from Peeron) and wants to see if a .DAT file even
> exists. IF we can find it, we download the DAT file and translate it to DXF for
> viewing in AutoCAD/3DS. Most of my students never touch LDRAW in any other form,
> so they don't have access to the Part Libraries, etc. (I DO, of course, but it's
> tedious to have to look up every part for every student).
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> We have NEVER been able to get Parts tracker to work (always says, "Library
> subdirectory must be included in the filename" I have no idea what that means).
> So we use Partsref.
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> When we find a part by searching part numbers or keywords, a "search results"
> page comes up. On it there's a hyperlink under the part pic that says, "DAT".
> But when we click on the link, it says the page does not exist. However if we
> acutally surf Partsref to find the part in its subdirectory*, the DAT link on
> THAT page works (i.e. the student can download the DAT file). I don't remember
> this always being the case - is this something on my end fouling things up?
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> Darrell Urbien
> Orange Coast College CAD
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> *This process is quite difficult as well.. If I know the part number I can
> search for the part and it comes up. BUT the search results don't tell me the
> branch of the tree where the part can be found. Since the DAT link doesn't work
> on the results page, I end up having to browse likely subdirectories for the
> part, which can take forever! It's not always obvious which branch of the tree
> the part belongs in, for example.. Am I missing some part of the search
> function here?
I've scratched my head about this as well, but I suppose Parts Tracker is just
for unoffical files. To get an offical DAT file, you can just type a URL into
your browser (substituting the correct part number, of course):
http://www.ldraw.org/library/official/parts/3001.dat
This is explained here (sorry about the godawfullylongurl):
http://www.ldraw.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=13&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Though, to convert it to another 3D format, don't you also require all the
referenced primitive DAT files, too? Seems like a lot of hassle to download
all those individually.
HTH,
Mark
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