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(...) Great work. The subpart naming standard(s)n are documented at (URL) So, I'd rather your subpart were named s6898s01.dat. Submitting a new part to the Parts Tracker is easy. You need to register as an LDraw.org user (at (URL)) and then request (...) (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) Sorry Orion, I was not aware of that neat feature. I should get out of my LDAO-centric world more often. So, what I meant to say was : "There's this really cool tool called LDraw Design Pad that can do this for you". Chris (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Thanks everyone for the advice. After posting last night I went ahead and changed the hat puff to a 1/8 segment and called it s/6898s18.dat. Any conditional lines falling along the x, z, x+z (diagonal), or x-z axes were moved into the main file to (...) (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) LDraw Design Pad can do this. You can find it at (URL) (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) I think the filesize:quality ratio is good. I notice that almost everything is coded to 4 decimal places. Except when (and maybe not even then) a surface joins to a circular primitive, 3 DPs should be sufficient in parts (0.0001 LDu < 0.00002 (...) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) About 10 times that. Including the optional line subfile the combined size is 1018K. Worth every byte as far as I'm concerned. -Orion (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) There are, I believe, efforts ongoing behind the scenes to unify and improve the part number assignment/tracking/allocation process and this is one facet of that. I am not sure the principals in the matter are ready to speak out about it. (...) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Lee: I tend to think the same thing. File size is important in that it impacts load times, render times, memory consumption while editing designs and etc., but it's not like there are going to be scads of models (unless someone CADs up a chef (...) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) The part looks great. As far as file size, I don't think 29.2K is too large at all, especially for a complicated curvy part like this. Others may disagree but I thinl that quality should never be sacrificed for file size concerns. -Orion (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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I've been working on 6898.dat, the cook's hat, and I think I nearly have a finished part to submit. The hat of course is in reality a more "sculpted" piece without true 8-way symmetry, but I decided for simplicity to make it symmetrical. The bottom (...) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) [SNIP] (...) Dear Chris, thanks for your patience with stupid newbies like me. Sorry for being not able to find out these things for myself. Your explanation has now been very clear and (semi-)logical for me. I would have wished to find a (...) (20 years ago, 24-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Sounds great, Michael! I am looking forward to get that file onto my PC. Regards, Ben (20 years ago, 24-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Dear Niels, thank you for your offer. But I fear to work into your mockup would not save too much time on my side. Basically I wanted to avoid doubled work. I am really interested in these LEGO® sets since I know about them. And since they (...) (20 years ago, 24-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) have the time I need to bring it forward. (...) (20 years ago, 23-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Sounds great! I've gotten a few of those recently and can't wait to download it :-) Cheers NB (20 years ago, 24-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) Although I have created mockups for the microphone and control unit for personal use. If you want to create these parts, please do. I can send you my mockups, if you like to. Niels (20 years ago, 24-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Wouldn't it be best to create 'inventorying policy'? Inventorying is much faster than actually modelling the parts, so the {ldraw} part library is {in my eyes} just a subset of peeron library. And while you think about some new policies, some (...) (20 years ago, 23-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) There is a logic to Niels' xNNN numbers and although this has been explained several times before, it probably deserves repeating. The LDraw convention for part numbers (initiated by James Jessiman) is to use 3-digit part numbers where the (...) (20 years ago, 23-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) [snip] (...) Hello Niels, (...) ldraw failed. Then I had a three weeks vacation without online access. Now I uploaded them at brickshelf to publish them. :-( (...) these (even if I think mine are more accurately done).... (...) I had a close (...) (20 years ago, 22-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) After a long delay I finally got back to these parts. I've post completed version on the PT. -Orion (20 years ago, 22-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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