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Re: General question on ldr and mpd files ...
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Date: 
Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:28:47 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Travis Cobbs wrote:

Am I to understand the the orginal ldraw and ledit will check for .dat
versions of sub-models if you specify a filename without an extension inside
a model file?

Yes, that's correct.  Well, I haven't checked lately, hold on....

er, never mind.  I'm wrong.  My bad.

LDraw and LEdit *will* add a '.dat' extension to a filename you specify
on the command line, so the command:

ldraw tt

will cause ldraw to attempt to render a file named 'tt.dat'.  But it
*won't* locate and render a file named 'tt'.  To do that, you need the
command line:

ldraw tt.

If this is the case, then I guess I will update LDView
accordingly, but I personally feel that using filenames without extensions
inside a dat/ldr file is bad form.

Apparently, you shouldn't bother.

Steve



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  Re: General question on ldr and mpd files ...
 
(...) Well, actually LDView won't load the file whether or not it's in MPD format. Given that LDView isn't designed to work from the command line (although you CAN specify a filename on the command line), it doesn't contain any auto-extension (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad)

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