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Re: Parts Maintenance Idea
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Fri, 12 Feb 1999 13:48:06 GMT
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On Fri, 12 Feb 1999 03:44:39 GMT, "John VanZwieten"
<john_vanzwieten@msn.com> wrote:
> Steve Bliss writes:
> > - Helps people track down part number changes, especially if another
> > part is now using the old number.
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> Is this done?
It's happened on at least one occasion. The problem is with the LDraw
library, usually--a part was released with the wrong number, and there
is a different part which actually should have that number.
> I guess I thought that once a number is used, it's used up.
AFAIK, TLG doesn't recycle numbers.
> How
> does LDAO part update function deal with this?
Badly. It can't deal with it, because it depends on the "~Moved to
XXXX" titles in the stub-files which replace the old part-file. When a
new part moves in, there's no indication that a different part used to
live at that address.
> (By the way, yet another
> awesome addition to LDAO's usefulness.
Thanks. It would be much more useful if it would recurse through a
model's sub-model files. Near-future work-around: use an MPD-builder to
combine all the sub-files into a single MPD, then use the Mover (that
thing needs a different name) to process the MPD.
> I've just been using it a bunch to fix
> models I did last summer. It's amazing how many "moved to"s there have been
> since then.)
Terry and crew have been busy... :)
> > - Reduces need to overload the Author tag to give proper credit on
> > modifications.
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> Good point. I think this is a good idea then.
Cool. Now we just need to hear from the most important opinion-holder:
Terrell Keller. Hey, Terry! Can we tear you away from those throwbot
parts for a minute? Stop dreaming, and let us know what you think.
Steve
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| (...) Joshua relayed once to me some deductive evidence that TLG has recycled part numbers in at least a couple odd circumstances. For example, the 1x2 plate hinges numbered 4275 & 4276 originally had only 1 hinge finger on the male part and 2 hinge (...) (28 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) A couple of occasions. Not much can be done about it. It requires that any person who had used that part in a model to go back and manually update it to the correct number. (...) As far as the 3-digit (or less) numbers in LDraw goes, I try to (...) (28 years ago, 13-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) Is this done? I guess I thought that once a number is used, it's used up. How does LDAO part update function deal with this? (By the way, yet another awesome addition to LDAO's usefulness. I've just been using it a bunch to fix models I did (...) (28 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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