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| | | Hi everybody - A few of you are curious about the new default file format the latest version of MLCad uses, .LDR. I will attempt to explain this to eliminate any confusion. For a while we (website organizers and core contributors) have wanted the (...) (23 years ago, 3-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | Re: LDR - New LDraw File Extension —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | "Tim Courtney" <tim@zacktron.com> wrote in message news:GnrB9B.7yC@lugnet.com... (...) more (...) I forgot to add, DAT will always be compatible, and should always be compatible. LEdit has .DAT hard-coded (and we have not found a copy of its source (...) (23 years ago, 3-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | Re: LDR - New LDraw File Extension —Carsten Schmitz
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| | | | | | Hello, (...) its (...) LEdit can be changed. I did it myself. Just patch the extension with a hex-editor from .DAT to LDR. No reverse-engineering necessary ;)) Greetings Carsten (23 years ago, 3-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | Re: LDR - New LDraw File Extension —Gary E. Blessing
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| | | | | ahhhhh, ok that exlains it. thanks! Gary Tim Courtney <tim@zacktron.com> wrote in message news:GnrB9B.7yC@lugnet.com... (...) more (...) not (...) for (...) (23 years ago, 3-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | Re: LDR - New LDraw File Extension —Rui Manuel Silva Martins
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| | | | | (...) This is Not exactly required! (...) Yes, but it will break compatibility, with older programs. (...) Don't really know. (...) So, the actual goal, of switching to an unambigous extension, doesn't really work, because, everybody, must keep (...) (23 years ago, 3-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | Re: LDR - New LDraw File Extension —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | | "Rui Martins" <Rui.Martins@Link.pt> wrote in message news:3C0BB8B1.803010...Link.pt... (...) No, for now parts stay .DAT. (...) It isn't as big of a deal as you are making it out to be. I've had many discussions with Steve about this, and he (...) (23 years ago, 3-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | Re: LDR - New LDraw File Extension —Lars C. Hassing
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| | | | Tim Courtney wrote... (...) L3P accepts any extension. The only special feature is, that if your model is called MODEL.DAT or MODEL.MPD you can leave out the extension and just type "l3p MODEL". This will of course also apply to MODEL.LDR from the (...) (23 years ago, 3-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | Re: LDR - New LDraw File Extension —Michael Lachmann
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| | | | "Lars C. Hassing" <lch@ccieurope.com> wrote in message news:GnsJ68.Bzr@lugnet.com... <SNIP> (...) For me it's the kind of file - while mpd contains multiple models, ldr and dat contain only one file (I thought it's more logical ???). But I'm always (...) (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | Re: LDR - New LDraw File Extension —Lars C. Hassing
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| | | | Michael Lachmann wrote... (...) Maybe our views are biased from the actual handling of the file types in our applications? MLCad has an "Active model" droplist and lets you switch between model/submodels. L3Lab always displays the complete model. (...) (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | Re: LDR - New LDraw File Extension —Don Heyse
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| | | | (...) How about just using .ldr? Otherwise you Windows folks are going to have to fight it out with Microsoft for the .mpd extension, and we already know who'll win that battle. :) Microsoft registers .mpd for Microsoft Project Documents. Give it up (...) (23 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | Re: LDR - New LDraw File Extension —Mike Walsh
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| | | | | "Don Heyse" <dheyse@hotmail.spam....away.com> wrote in message news:GnvM1B.K54@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) I thought Microsoft Project used .mpp for it's extensions. Mike -- Mike Walsh - mike_walsh at mindspring dot com (URL) - (...) (23 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | Re: LDR - New LDraw File Extension —Michael Lachmann
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| | | | | | | "Mike Walsh" <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:GnvML4.LFC@lugnet.com... (...) That was my impression too, but I also go with Lars, to make the filter like he suggested. Should be more easy for the user anyway. Michael (23 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | Re: LDR - New LDraw File Extension —Don Heyse
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| | | | | | (...) Perhaps, but according to this page (URL) regedit on my PC) Microsoft registers .mpp for the project files, but it also registers .mpc for project calendar files, and .mpd for project database files. I suppose eventually they'll register ALL (...) (23 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | Re: LDR - New LDraw File Extension —Rui Manuel Silva Martins
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| | | | (...) In this case, (since we are ridding the wave of change), I would sugest, using .mpl (Multipart Ldraw) instead of .mpd (Multipart Dat) I think it makes reasonable sence. Another pet peeve for is the fact, that we should agree, on the Case of (...) (23 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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