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Hey gang, For a while now I've wanted a way to sort the entries in a .DAT file according to X-Y-Z coordinates, that way after I build a file in MLCad I can sort the elements so they're in an order much like original LEGO instructions (bottom to top, (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Re: Patterned Parts Numbering
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Hello Fredrik, (...) IMHO this is the best and most compatible idea so far. I believe Don Heyse had the same idea too. Greetings, Carsten Schmitz -- Greetings, Carsten Schmitz "Fredrik Glöckner" <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote in message (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Patterned Parts Numbering
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(...) Sidestepping various landmines, two ideas that come to mind for addressing this issue: 1. Allow letters in pattern id's, to increase the number of 2-digit from 100 to 1296. This could work, but would make recognition of patterned element files (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Patterned Parts Numbering [DAT]
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(...) While not directly related, I've found that, while using subparts from the parts\s directory, the names will be truncated if they're more than 8 characters long and therefore won't render in LEdit or LDraw. For instance, a line like: 1 16 0 0 (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Patterned Parts Numbering
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(...) Oh yeah! It's my fav modeling tool. I seem to remember that Jeremy Sproat also said he used LEdit. (...) But will that work in LEdit? I normally specify part names in LEdit by the base file name, i.e. everything before the ".DAT" and LEdit (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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