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(...) LDraw Design Pad can do this. You can find it at (URL) (21 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 (...) (21 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 (21 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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 | | Re: Hook Coupling 737c01.dat and 444.dat train wheel.
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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. (...) (21 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 (...) (21 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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