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Re: LPub Orientation and Half-Size LDraw files
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lugnet.cad
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Fri, 1 Jul 2005 00:07:40 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> One of the "features" of LPub is to create part list images and bill of
> materials images, modeling those concepts found in LEGO building instructions.
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> One of the issues I noticed years ago when I first used LPub for book authoring
> was that not all the LDraw parts are oriented in a way that gives a consistent
> orientation feel within a PLI or BOM.
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> To overcome this issue, LPub uses a file called orientation.ldr provided with
> the LPub install package. When LPub needs to render a given part/color, LPub
> looks to see if the part is listed in orientation.ldr. If it is found there,
> LPub uses the part orientation found in orientation.ldr. If not, the default
> orientation is used.
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> The problem is that each release of LPub overwrites orientation.ldr, erasing any
> changes you might have added. It leaves me wondering if there isn't some way to
> manage this file better.
What if you changed it to check for an individual (*.ori?) file for each part?
If the file exists, it contains the orientation info. That way an upgrade would
only add new files that don't already exist. The only problem then is if an
already installed file needs an upgrade, not sure the best way to handle that.
ROSCO
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