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Re: LPub newbie
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Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:44:59 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Chris Eyerly wrote:
   In lugnet.cad, Allen Smith wrote:
   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.

  
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

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 list callouts in LPub worked.

FWIW if you want to generate the parts.lst file yourself, the OS-X version of ldglite comes bundled with a mklist executable. If LPub needs a parts.lst file perhaps it could be bundled with mklist as well.



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(...) 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)

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