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Sorry to see you go. Thanks for all the contributions you have made, and remember that we will keep a place waiting for you. Hope to see you back soon. -- Terry K -- (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository
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(...) Actually, to support more levels of subfiles, I suggested that we use the following, or a similar, format: main.dat Main instructions, including all models that can be built at once. Basically, this is just a display of m1.dat through m9.dat (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository
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(...) into one (...) with >all the main model stuff in it, then a file called maybe SxxxxAyy for >alternate model 1, SxxxxByy for alternate model 2 etc. All the subfiles could >still go in a single directory called Sxxxx-yy. That could lead to (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: AUTHORS subdirectory?
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(...) I think this already works. (...) That'd be nice. It'd be one step in making LDraw into less of an "amateur"[1] CAD program. --Bram [1] As in the results and programming, not the users. I think Ldraw should remain as least as easy to use as it (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository
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(...) Great! By the way, did you ever get around to updating the landscape generator? --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (25 years ago, 15-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository
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(...) It'd be nice to see the title of the file (because of the cryptic way I give filenames) without actually having to open the file. Another thing that would be nice, but probably prone to unwanted problems, is a little script that changes the (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Help Still Needed
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(...) For what it's worth, which is nothing, I have a good deal of experience writing manuals and instructions because of some duties I have taken on at work, but the chance of me finding the time to do a GOOD timely job at this are exactly nil. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Help Still Needed
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There are still a lot of things that need to be done on ldraw.org, and there's only a handful of volunteers in a specialized area. We are in need of help working with reference material for the most part. As quoted from a previous post: 5. Reference (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository
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(...) both. I (...) I would say both in one model wouldn't be too much to ask - at least in the case where such submodels don't overlap. In which they do overlap, I would go for rotating functional parts over official instructions. We can link from (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository
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Tim Courtney <tim@zacktron.com> wrote in message news:199906142043.NA...omm.com... (...) No. Some people might use submodels to represent the building instruction submodels, some might use them for rotating parts, some might even do both. I suppose (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository
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(...) referencing (...) So you are saying to have two sets of each model - the true-to-instructions official version, and the version that incorporates all the rotating parts. Am I correct? -Tim Courtney ldraw.org Project Coordinator (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository
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(...) Using "main-" and "alt" gives us at least three more characters for referencing submodels and sub-submodels. I think Bram's idea of main-a main instructions, model "a" main-aa main instructions, model "a", sub-submodel "b" main-ab main-b (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository
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(...) think it's probably more work than it's worth. The beauty (...) from any direction, and used for creating scenes, e.g. (...) files for movable or rotating sections of a model than (...) The M:Tron Particle Ionizer someone mentioned is a (...) (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: AUTHORS subdirectory?
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(...) Yeah, that's the idea. If the ZIP or MPD files contain the right subdirectory stuff, then they'd just fall right into place. --Todd (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Lossless outlining (Was: [ldraw.org] Progress)
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(...) Agreed completely. For serious file-sharing, MPD is way better than inlining. Steve (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository
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(...) It's not his .dat file that contains the space character -- it's an actual file on the disk. Bram was saying that he was using LEdit interactively and saved a file, giving the name explicitly but accidentally embedding a space character in the (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Question about part 4081
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(...) I don't know if they have different part numbers, but they should be two seperate parts. The old (thin) one had many uses that the current one doesn't. Example: If you put a tile on the clip, it would line up perfectly with the side of the (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lossless outlining (Was: [ldraw.org] Progress)
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Steve Bliss wrote in message <375bc53d.299725817@...et.com>... (...) In which case MPD would be better anyway. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: AUTHORS subdirectory?
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(...) Hmmm... Looks like LEdit handles this just fine as well... No problems here. Is there really any reason to maintain the c:\ldraw\models\etc. structure for use in future tools in the LDraw multiverse? Why not allow models to reside in (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository
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(...) subdirs in (...) saving. (...) Win3.1 (...) So can't you just open the .dat file in notepad and delete that line?? Ryan (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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