To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.cadOpen lugnet.cad in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 CAD / 12052
12051  |  12053
Subject: 
Re: Partsref DAT download problems?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.cad
Date: 
Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:29:22 GMT
Viewed: 
908 times
  
In lugnet.cad, Chris Dee wrote:
   In lugnet.cad, Darrell Urbien wrote:
   In lugnet.cad, Steve Bliss wrote:
   In lugnet.cad, Darrell Urbien wrote:
   Hi, can’t seem to get this answered privately, so I’ll try here... :)

Sorry, I must have missed your email?


I sent several messages to parts@lraw.org about this, and about how to become authorized to submit my AutoCAD/SolidWorks-created parts. I used the link at ldraw.org that says, “email Steve Bliss or Chris Dee” for both questions.. No problem, though, as suspected LUGNET provides all the answers! :)



I don’t recall receiving such a request, and if you really did email parts@lraw.org then you would not have got an answer, since the real address is parts@ldraw.org. The link on the main web-page looks OK to me, but if you found a link with an incorrect mailto tag, could you please let us know which page, so it can be fixed.


  
  
   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).

It means “the file you asked for isn’t on the PT”.



Ahh.. Thanks for that. Perhaps that could be added to the error message to make it more clear? Right now a casual visitor gets the impression the part may exist, just not in the place you specified (since you don’t know the correct subdirectory)..

Yes - I’ll take a look at improving that.

  
Thanks,

Darrell

The Parts Tracker error message has now been improved, to be clearer and provide a link to the partsref search. Also if the part does exist it includes a direct link to the download area.

For example see http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cgi?s=3003

But I don’t have the rights to fix the bad HREF in http://guide.lugnet.com/partsref/search.cgi

Hopefully Steve will be able to fix that.

Chris



Message has 1 Reply:
  Re: Partsref DAT download problems?
 
(...) Thanks for doing that, Chris! (...) Nope, Steve can't do that. Todd could fix the partsref/search (I can't touch anything on the lugnet server), or Dan could add a forward to the webserver on ldraw.org to handle the requests (I have access to (...) (20 years ago, 29-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)

Message is in Reply To:
  Re: Partsref DAT download problems?
 
(...) I don't recall receiving such a request, and if you really did email parts@lraw.org then you would not have got an answer, since the real address is parts@ldraw.org. The link on the main web-page looks OK to me, but if you found a link with an (...) (20 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)

20 Messages in This Thread:






Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact

This Message and its Replies on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR