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Re: Problem with MLCAD arrows in other programs - and how to solve it
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lugnet.cad
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Fri, 31 Dec 2004 18:26:17 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Sven Moritz Hein wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Travis Cobbs wrote:
>
> > I agree that other programs can't be expected to support something they aren't
> > aware of
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> I also agree.
> I think it wasn't very good to change the definition of a IMHO very complicated,
> but important meta-command like 0 GHOST.
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> Perhaps it would be better just to add the 0 GHOST in front of EVERY line which
> is ghosted, including the lines between 0 MLCAD SKIP_BEGIN / 0 MLCAD SKIP_END.
> Perhaps you could do this automatically (and implement this in a future version
> of MLCAD). Viewers which only show the complete MOC without steps (like LDView)
> could just skip the ghosted lines as if they weren't there. And the problem that
> there are also lines which shall NOT be ghosted between SKIP_BEGIN and SKIP_END
> (in springs, for example) would disappear.
> And last but not least there would not be any downward compatibility problems.
A agree. I think that is an excellent idea, and the proper solution.
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> I know, MLCad is Michael Lachmann's program, and he decides what he wants to
> implement in it, but as long as the LDRAW language is to be extended, important
> changes should be mentioned here at LUGNET.
Michael has done so much for LDraw, and his ideas are great, and I find that
they add so much to the tool set of publishing MOCs that I prefer to implement
them. I'm a pretty unsophistocated MLCad user, and typically learn about the
really cool parts (e.g. buffer exchange) through input from users like you Sven.
Please keep the input coming.
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> For me as a virtual MOC builder it would be fine if all programs interpreted the
> file the same way. But that does not mean that as soon as anyone adds a command,
> all other programs also have to use it. That's impossible (and maybe even not
> what we want).
The powerful ones, like arrows is well worth the effort. Implemementing it in
MLCad, rather than a library of parts, is brilliant.
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> Leg Godt
> -Sven
Kevin
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