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(...) Well, the ldraw directory itself can be specified in ldraw.ini. And while I agree that filling up the Windows directory is generally a bad thing, you can't have the file be in the LDraw directory if it is the file that specifies where to find (...) (21 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Call for Nominations to LDraw.org Steering Committee
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Per the newly adopted LDraw.org Bylaws, Subsection 6.03(a), I hereby call for the community to nominate individuals for the upcoming Steering Committee vote. Please post nominations in response to this message. Nominations will be only be recognized (...) (21 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !!
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD 2.1b1 New Release
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(...) OK, that sounds fair. I believe it would be a good idea for MBC to report when a file (or files) are missing. A single list of all missing files would be much better than a dialog per file. As I found out, there does not appear to be any error (...) (21 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD 2.1b1 New Release
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Jim, Some great feedback, keep it comming. Rather than tackle uour suggestions, one by one, I've kept them and you will find many incorporated in future releases. There is a new release on the blocks - give me a few more days, this version has a (...) (21 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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(...) I agree. I like the ini file solution over the environmet varible (...) I agree that putting the ldraw.ini the LDRAW dir would make much more sense (why it wasn't in the first place is puzzling) but the problem is that the programs the use it (...) (21 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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I just start a new sub-thread to discuss two very important points where I thought over two nights now: The location of the ini file and environment variables! I would not recommend to go with both solutions, because its source for possible errors (...) (21 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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(...) I think you are being a bit unreasonable. The discussion is about a fundamental functionality of LDraw, which has impact on all programs. Agreement is important to ease the life of the end user: *one* place for setup. We try to accomodate (...) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw.org Bylaws Ratification Passes
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(...) Thank *you*, Orion. (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw.org Bylaws Ratification Passes
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(...) Second that! I think the community owes Orion a vote of thanks for the work in getting the voting set up and tallied, and it owes itself a vote of thanks for the many constructive comments and feedback points. These helped make the bylaws (...) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw.org Bylaws Ratification Passes
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(...) Thanks, Orion, for setting up the poll and tallying the votes. Also, thanks to everyone who participated in the drafting process and the public discussion process. More will follow once I've had the chance to circle up with the rest of the (...) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LDraw.org Bylaws Ratification Passes
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With a total of 52 votes of "yes" and 4 votes of "no", the LDraw.org bylaws are hereby ratified. The Ad-Hoc Organizing Committee will move towards the call for nominations. More information will be posted in the next couple days to LDraw.org and to (...) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce) !
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| | LDraw Design Pad (LDDP) 1.54 Released
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LDDesignPad (LDDP) is a tool for editing and handling LDraw files in a very comfortable way. Download it here: (URL) are: -Fully customizable editor with syntax highlighting -Open multiple files at the same time -Unlimited Undo/Redo -Use/define (...) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD 2.1b1 New Release
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I played with MBC for the first time last weekend and I had to stop and do a dance of joy! Thank you, thank, thank you! The thought of having to buy Virtual PC again just to work with OS X, loading it and Windoze, and then working with MCAD in slow (...) (21 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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Sorry to be a bit harsh now but whats going on here now is exactly what I ment with overkill in discussions. We discuss about a quite simple small usefull feature - but we also discuss how we can make things complicated and beeing a long process (...) (21 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: anyone encoding these?
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(...) Scratch one of them off the list... (URL) I had started 30603 last spring. I had the exterior (...) John, if you're going to be at the DixieLIG meeting Saturday, I can get the file from you then, if that's all right with you. Thanks!! Franklin (21 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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(...) Exactly, and you don't look for a part named "\3006.DAT" in the PARTS directory? When you combine the full path to the PARTS directory with the part filename you have to add the "\" yourself, right? So I know you can do it... (...) Ah, but (...) (21 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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(...) OK. (...) But you don't declare LDRAWDIR as C:\LDraw\, i.e. with a trailing backslash. We also use %WINDIR%\ldraw.ini and not %WINDIR%ldraw.ini. I think most variable substitution in any (script) language uses explicit delimiters in stead of (...) (21 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: anyone encoding these?
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(...) I had started 30603 last spring. I had the exterior pretty much finished, but the interior proved to be difficult without calipers, and thus I moved to other pieces during the summer. I can see if I still have the MPD, if you want to take a (...) (21 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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(...) I also considered suggesting [LDrawSearch] but I held back and went with the "me too". I do like [LDrawSearch] better though. (...) Sure, but use lowercase ldraw.ini please! I'm too lazy to remember to use the shift key on a case sensitive (...) (21 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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(...) Me too. I think it is a good idea with a separate section for the search directories, it allows shorter keys than suggested in (URL) I suggest section name [LDrawSearch] which is more in line with [LDraw]. (...) Yes, first (...) (21 years ago, 25-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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