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Re: Request for more stringent naming of (Complete|Shortcut) parts
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lugnet.cad
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Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:05:19 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> > used for this, and LPub already recognizes that. So how is it that when a user
> > uses 4107488.dat, 680.dat, 681.dat, and 682.dat show up in the BOM (which I
> > believe is the problem you want to solve)?
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> The point is that the model does *not* use 4107488.dat because that is not the
> right shape for the model...... If everyone only ever used 4107488.dat, I would
> not have brought it up.
Sorry. I misinterpreted your initial post. I just went back and reread it, and
see that it doesn't actually say that the user used 4107488.dat, but it does
seems to imply this (at least to me).
> Chris has told me how to recognize the complete parts. What I am considering is
> LPub scans the library for a list the "complete" parts. I would add new code
> to open up and examine the complete parts, and try to compress the list of
> sub-pieces in the PLI into complete parts.
I had forgotten about that new format for the LDRAW_ORG line, even though we
(the LSC) only approved it a few months ago.
> > solution would impact official parts. My suggestion would be another LPub
> > begin/end meta pair to say "all lines between this begin and end should be
> > treated as a single part in the BOM". Note: since it seems that I'm
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> We have that already.
OK.
> > I can't recall having ever seen a set that contained minifigs that didn't have
> > the minifig building steps at the very beginning of the set's instructions.
> > Having said that, the arms, legs and hands can all be at arbitrary angles if the
> > figure is placed into the model in the instructions, so it's still theoretically
> > possible that it would be good to have a fully built minifig show up in a BOM.
> > I still think this would better be served by LPub-specific meta-commands in the
> > model itself, though, since the user obviously couldn't put their custom-posed
> > minifig in the official library.
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> Obviously I don't buy sets with minifigs....... :^)
You mean you don't have the big Falcon? It does have a fair number of old-style
technic beams ;-) (although they are new gray).
--Travis
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