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    modeling questions. —Dennis Osborn
   Hello all. It has been a couple of days since I completed the model of the bird and proclaimed it finished. Now I realize there is one more thing to do. Since the bird is symetical vertically, I have "cut" the bird in half. I want to inline the (...) (24 years ago, 21-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
   
        Re: modeling questions. —Steve Bliss
   (...) Actually, this is the reverse of inlining. It doesn't really have a name. Outlining? Subfiling? (...) Yes, it will work. All you do is copy half the DAT code to another file (like s\2546s01.dat). Then replace all the you are subfiling with the (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
   
        Re: modeling questions. —Dennis Osborn
   (...) I was hoping I could keep the subfile inside the original dat file, similar to a mpd file. (...) I bow to your superior experience and leave the file alone. Thanks Steve, Dennis. (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
   
        Re: modeling questions. —Steve Bliss
   (...) That would be very cool, but MPD is not part of the LDraw standard definition, so (official) parts can't be written this way. Steve (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
 

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