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Re: More newbie questions
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:19:38 GMT
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On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Steve Bliss wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Rui Martins wrote:
> > [...SNIP...]
> > I think Not, MPD won't act as a virtual direcotry, since you can only use it to
> > represent the model contained within it, not several, unless they all are part
> > of a larger model, (same tree root) i.e. the first file included in the MPD.
> 
> That's not exactly true.  The original MPD spec did not require that all
> archived files be part of a single model.  With the addition of path
> information on the 0 FILE statement, it is possible to throw a bunch of
> different files into an MPD.

Yes, but how do you do to draw only one of those models of the bunch in the MPD
?

I think you can't unless, you edit the first file (index) of the MPD.

With this in mind, an MPD does NOT work as a virtual directory, but it can act
as a place older for a set of models (like in a lego scene)

See ya
Rui Martins



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  Re: More newbie questions
 
(...) That's not my point - I was just saying you can put whatever (text) files you want into an MPD. That's very similar to a file directory, because there is not implied relation between the files in a directory (except that they're all in the (...) (26 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)

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  Re: More newbie questions
 
(...) That's not exactly true. The original MPD spec did not require that all archived files be part of a single model. With the addition of path information on the 0 FILE statement, it is possible to throw a bunch of different files into an MPD. (...) (26 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)

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