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Re: LPub newbie
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:06:29 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Eric Albrecht wrote:
   In lugnet.cad, Chris Eyerly wrote:
   Ok, I have n00b question for LPub. I am using a Mac with Bricksmith 2.3. I have the latest LDview installed and LPub 4.0.0.1. I have 2 issues (they might be related.

1. When starting LPub I get this error:

failed to open /Applications/Bricksmith/LDraw/parts.lst: No such file or directory

That is the correct path, and I even made a copy of Bricksmith Parts.plist named parts.lst still getting error.

The parts.lst file should not be under Bricksmith or have anything to do with Bricksmith. It should be in the same LDRAW folder where the parts library is.

Chris is referring to the LDraw folder which is distributed with Bricksmith. You can move it wherever you want, but by default it comes in the same folder as the application. (Having a single distribution dramatically lowers the barrier to entry for new users, from somewhere near “insurmountable” to “it just works.”)

The reason he didn’t find a parts.lst is that Bricksmith has no use for it. LDraw itself doesn’t actually come with a parts.lst, and I don’t bother generating one. It’s a primitive file format that falls short of my needs.

Allen



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  Re: LPub newbie
 
(...) Allen - Thanks for that response. So to any other newbies, I simply downloaded the latest parts update from ldraw.org, and grabbed the parts.lst file and copied into my LDRAW folder under the Bricksmith folder. After this, the per step parts (...) (15 years ago, 11-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
  Re: LPub newbie
 
(...) Parts.lst is crude and kind of annoying but given your desire for 'just works' (which I highly commend) could you not generate one to help other software to come a bit closer to that goal? Tim (15 years ago, 12-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)

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  Re: LPub newbie
 
(...) The parts.lst file should not be under Bricksmith or have anything to do with Bricksmith. It should be in the same LDRAW folder where the parts library is. (...) In order to do a BOM (Bill of Materials), you need to have a cover page. See this (...) (15 years ago, 11-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad)

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