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Re: N-Fedge primitives
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lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives
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Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:39:28 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, James Mastros wrote:
   Chris Dee wrote:
  
   I think we should create a 1-1edge, and a 1-2edge as aliases for 4-4edge and 2-4edge (respectively), so we have all of them available in least terms.

I don’t see the benefit from this - the naming convention is well established and existing part authors know how to work with it. Is it that hard to learn?
It’s not really that hard, but my mind recoils at a senseless inconsistency, and this, and the following, are it. Note that I suggested an alias, not move, and certainly not removing the existing names.

The consistency is in the basic four fractions: 1-4, 2-4, 3-4, 4-4. The other measures are (more or less) deliberate inconsistencies to name files that don’t fit the basic standard.

   http://www.ldraw.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=45 says that if the first line in the file is a 0 line, then that gives the name of the model “(at least for parts files)”. Is it incorrect to consider primitives a strange sort of part file?

Yes, that would be an incorrect consideration. Part files are found in the /parts directory.

  
   For the sake of tidiness and for consistency with the other *edge.dat primitive that do have headers, I have added a revised 5-8edge.dat file to the Parts Tracker.
Great, but 4-4 is the one I was really worried about, not 5-8. I realize this is pedantic, but I decided to start with the trivial, and work my way up to the more complex.

I’ve submitted a fix to 4-4edge.dat, merging the header from the 0.27 version with the code from the 1998-10 version.

Steve



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(...) It's not really that hard, but my mind recoils at a senseless inconsistency, and this, and the following, are it. Note that I suggested an alias, not move, and certainly not removing the existing names. (...) "0 Circle 1.0". 5-8edge should be (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, FTX)

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