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Re: shortcut?...or model/set?
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Fri, 19 Dec 2003 00:21:37 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Franklin W. Cain wrote:
> In the interest of generating some discussion, let me toss out there
> to the general CAD community. Regarding the file I created and posted
> [1] to the Parts Tracker:
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> Question #1:
> Is it a "shortcut" file, suitable for inclusion into the parts library?
> Or, should it instead be considered a model file, for inclusion into
> a "set"/models library?
It depends, see Question #2
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> Question #2:
> What is the dividing line between "shortcut" file and "model"? Where
> do we draw the line? Any rules of thumb? Any absolutes?
A file is a shortcut if it consists of on or more indiviual parts that make up a
complete part assembly. In other words, if the indiviual parts are normally
found connected in a new LEGO box. There are a few exceptions to this (i.e.
parts and the stickers assciated with them, convenient combinations like a
Minifig hat and feather, and some older library files)
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> Question #3:
> (Presuming the general concensus is that said file is a model, and thus
> should be included into a sets/models library): What *is* the status of
> creating such a library? I recall (some time ago, three or four years
> ago, I want to say) someone mentioning that *eventually* there would be
> an effort to encode official LEGO sets as DAT files in their entirety.
The Official Model Repository is on the todo list at LDraw.org. We have a
framework of code for that database, we just have to work it into the existing
CMS.
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> Question #4:
> (Presuming "The Powers That Be" [TPTB] in the LDraw Organization do still
> intend to pursue this endeavour): Where do we stand on this project?
> Is it in the "Still in planning" stage? "Planning done, but waiting
> for a propitious time"? (Or, Heaven forbid, "Deader than roadkill"?)
See Question #3
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> Question #5:
> (Presuming the answer to Q4 above is favorable): What can I do to help
> move this project forward?
Once we get the database up and running, you can model as many sets as you see
fit.
-Orion
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| (...) It's a model. Or at least, part of a model. It's not appropriate for the parts library, because it's a construction of common parts. Contrast that with the palm tree shortcut file, which uses some unusual parts in a mode for which they were (...) (21 years ago, 20-Dec-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| In the interest of generating some discussion, let me toss out there to the general CAD community. Regarding the file I created and posted [1] to the Parts Tracker: Question #1: Is it a "shortcut" file, suitable for inclusion into the parts library? (...) (21 years ago, 18-Dec-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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