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RE: *** SPAM *** MLCAD Mindstrom Category
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Sun, 27 Aug 2006 08:12:03 GMT
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The obvious problem with this is that, when the library is updated, all the
edits will be over-written
Creating a series of "m" shortcuts may be better, eg
0 MINDSTORM Brick 1 x 2
0 Name: m3004.dat
0 Author: LDraw Community
1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3004.dat
With a list of the part numbers in the set(s) it should be fairly simple to
write a script to do this
HTH
William
-----Original Message-----
From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway@lugnet.com] On Behalf Of
AHui Herrera
Sent: 27 August 2006 04:05
To: lugnet.cad@lugnet.com
Subject: *** SPAM *** MLCAD Mindstrom Category
I recieved the following question at the Help Desk this week and while my
answer
will work it is one long, tedious customized process. I am wondering if
anyone
has an easier way?
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Original Email
> Hi,
>
> Currently there are headings like bricks, plates, technics, etc.,
> in the parts list. I work with kids using Mindstorms and I would like to
> create an RIS or Team Challenge heading for the parts in one kit. How
> hard would this be to do and are there any docs to describe how to do it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> William J Rust
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1st Reply
> Are you trying to show these headings in MLCAD?
> -Ahui
> LDraw Help Desk
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Educator's Reply
> Yep. What I want to do is have a Mindstorms heading so that the kids
> will know exactly what parts are in a Mindstorms set without having to
> go to paper documents and then hunt through the brick, plate, etc.,
> categories.
> wjr
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2nd Help Desk Reply
> It is possible but may be very time consuming due to the current labeling • of
> > parts.
>
> In MCLAD you can go to SETTINGS -> PARTS TREE -> TREE CONFIGURE and create • a
> > new catalog entry and provide it a basic rule of what you want included.
>
> eg.
> Bricks < brick
>
> The catageory is Bricks and the LDraw parts that would be placed in there • are
> > anything that has the word "brick" in it's file description.
>
> Mindstorm parts fall under various designations (plates, bricks, • electrical,
> > etc...) in order to create a "mindstorm" category like you want you • would
> need to find each LDraw part that you want in that category, open the .dat
> (part file) in NOTEPAD and edit the first line of the file.
>
> The first line is the comment line which shows the part name.
>
> eg.
>
> 3004.DAT has the following:
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> 0 Brick 1 x 2
> 0 Name: 3004.dat
> 0 Author: James Jessiman
> 0 Original LDraw Part
> 0 LDRAW_ORG Part UPDATE 2002-03
>
> You would need to replace the first line with
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> 0 MINDSTORM Brick 1 x 2
> 0 Name: 3004.dat
> 0 Author: James Jessiman
> 0 Original LDraw Part
> 0 LDRAW_ORG Part UPDATE 2002-03
>
> so that it would be picked up by your new mindstorm category.
>
> You are the first educator to ask for this type of regrouping but I know
> that many other educators use our software. Let me ask around the • community >
> to see if anyone has done this or may have an easier way to handle this.
[-AHui]
[LDraw Help Desk]
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| (...) That is true but remember that this is for a classroom that wil only use the MINDSTROM parts so updates to the LDraw library will be of no concern to them unless a new MINDSTORM part is included. Thinking of this what we really need is an (...) (18 years ago, 27-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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