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Re: Lossless outlining (Was: [ldraw.org] Progress)
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lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
Date: 
Thu, 3 Jun 1999 16:30:46 GMT
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JSPROAT@stopspammersGEOCITIES.COM
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Steve Bliss wrote:
Note to [everyone who is not Sproaticus]: A single inlined reference can be
undone with cut and paste. But if a subfile is inlined more than once in a
single master file, cut and paste won't correctly undo all of the inlines.

Whoops, I almost didn't read that.  :-,

But a cut and paste won't necessarily restore the origin of the sub-model,
will it?  My main reason for using sub-models is to place the origin in a
weird spot, usually for rotation purposes.

I agree that MPD is a better format for sub-files, but the critical issue
for me is that LEdit has no way of handling MPD files.

Cheers,
- jsproat

--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@geocities.com>
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/5249/
May the Force be with y'all.



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  Re: Lossless outlining (Was: [ldraw.org] Progress)
 
(...) That was my point exactly: the inline operation applies the transform information from the reference statement on to each of the inlined statements. So cut and paste can only move the modified lines into a file with the same name. (...) That's (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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  Re: Lossless outlining (Was: [ldraw.org] Progress)
 
(...) Outlining can only be done with manual intervention, because there's no final delimiter on the inlined code. So the human has to select the code to outline. I *think* the matrix math can be reversed, but I'm not sure. I don't know if there is (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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