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Re: Large LDraw/MPD Files?
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lugnet.cad
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Fri, 20 Dec 2002 07:18:22 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Tim Courtney writes:
> Has anyone had experience with HUGE LDraw files or MPD files (thousands of
> parts)? What are the effects? Do they crash some programs, or make them
> unusably slow? Just curious.
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> Thanks!
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> -Tim
Datsville is IMHO a HUGE model, with its 2Mb+ and several sub-models used
multiple times.
MLCAD is out of the question, but L3Lab is acceptable: 6.3-13 seconds,
depending on zoom factor and other preferences. No problem with L3P, but I
haven't even tried POV with Q>1...
/Tore
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Large LDraw/MPD Files?
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| (...) Dumb question... but where is Datsville hosted right now, and who maintains it? There should be a link on LDraw.org, but there isn't to my knowledge. I'll fix that on a long overdue wave of updates sometime in the relative near future. Thanks! (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: Large LDraw/MPD Files?
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| (...) Why is it that MLCad isn't appropriate for large models? Does it take a long time, or will MLCad actually crash? And what is the size limitation? I'm working on a fairly large model - well, it has a large number of parts, though its overall (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: Large LDraw/MPD Files?
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| (...) In August 2001 I did a render of Datsville with QUAL=0 (URL) be able to render the huge POV file (11 MB) generated by L3P in finite time on my old PC (450 MHz Pentium II, 128 MB RAM) the QUAL flag in the POV file was set to 0 initially using (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Large LDraw/MPD Files?
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| Has anyone had experience with HUGE LDraw files or MPD files (thousands of parts)? What are the effects? Do they crash some programs, or make them unusably slow? Just curious. Thanks! -Tim (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)
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