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RE: [Part] 3841.dat Minifig Tool Pickaxe
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Tue, 4 May 1999 12:58:12 GMT
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John VanZwieten wrote on Thursday, April 29, 1999:
>
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Ryan Dennett writes:
> > Hmmm. Someone didn't view in Ldlite or else my file is
> > messed up because in Ldlite
> > I only get color on the center of the handle. But other than
> > that it is great. The shape looks perfect.
>
> This is a line-wrap problem with the posting. When the lines
> are "unwrapped," the part is complete.
>
> Paul, is there any chance a future version of LDLite could
> accomodate this
> problem the way LDraw can?
When I made the input routine for my L3 project (and thus the
later spin-off L3P) back in the fall/autumn 1997 I made some
tests on how well LDraw could handle these kind of broken lines.
If I remember correctly, LDraw sometimes would have trouble
getting into "sync" again. Especially if the some lines didn't
have the expected number of arguments.
And it really is a difficult task to get into sync. How would
you treat the following lines:
4 16 1 2 3 4
2 16 1 2 3 4 5 6
As an OK line type 4?
As an erroneous line type 4 and an OK line type 2?
Then I scanned all part files. There were (and still are!) files
having lines with either too few or too many arguments.
So I decided to make my input routine line-wise.
And to add the -check option to L3P.
The LDraw format is simple, yet powerful. I think it is better to
request and ensure that each line is kept on one line, than forcing
ALL Ldraw compatible utilities to have all kinds of input fixing.
/Lars
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