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    Problem with unofficial parts? —Karim Nassar
    I just downloaded some parts off of Paul Easter's pages that were classified as "nearly complete" (30201 and 30209). They look good rendered in LDlite, but When I tried to build a model with them, they would not show up in LEdit. I then tried (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jun-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
   
        Re: Problem with unofficial parts? —Karim Nassar
     (...) Just solved the problem... for anyone who is interested, the files were formatted in columns using multiple spaces to make the numbers line up... I went into wordpad and did a series of [Find " " replace with " "] until they were all gone and (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jun-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
    
         Re: Problem with unofficial parts? —Paul Easter
      (...) Sorry about the spaces left in the file. I was not aware that they caused a problem. I will try to remember to compact the file first with LDAO before I place them for download. I do not use LDraw at all. I never got past the error messages (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
     
          Re: Problem with unofficial parts? —Karim Nassar
      (...) No problem, Paul; like I said... thanks for your good work :) (...) I still use LEdit for all model-building, and LDlite for rendering (with LDAO to tie them all together). IMHO the interface of MLcad is unbearable. BTW, Steve, are you still (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
     
          Re: Problem with unofficial parts? —Steve Bliss
      (...) Heck, yeah! Steve (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
    
         Re: Problem with unofficial parts? —Steve Bliss
     (...) I could be misremembering or just mistaken, but I believe the problem is with the extra spaces around the filename on subfile references. LEdit cannot handle *editing* lines like: 1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 somepart.dat But it should not (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
    
         Re: Problem with unofficial parts? —Joseph Gonzalez
     (...) i'm currently using paul's small 30211-small insectoid leg, his near-finished 30209-eyeball holder and even the mockup for the 30212-large insectoid leg. i don't remember having any problems with the parts but i used steve's ldraw add-on (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
   
        Re: Problem with unofficial parts? —Steve Bliss
   (...) send it to partsref@worldnet.att.net. Sooner or later, someone will look at it. Steve "someone" Bliss (24 years ago, 19-Jun-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
 

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