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Re: L-Draw - Future is the Net?
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Thu, 3 Feb 2000 19:56:20 GMT
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In LDLite on MS Windows, the .dat files are searched for
for by trying to do an "OpenFile" in several directories.
It would be very easy to replace the "OpenFile" with a
call that gets a file via ftp or html. I dreamed of adding
an attempt to get a file from www.ldraw.org to the end of
the search path. That way you wouldn't even need to install
the LDRAW distribution on a machine, just have a big web cache.
The inventive of you out there could imagine a .cgi script that
sythesized bricks, for example a server that just returned
bounding boxes for each brick.
It would be nice if someone did this.
-gyug
In lugnet.cad.dev, Alex Farlie writes:
> As part of my project for college I am finding that
> a large number of Pro Acitectural Cad systems suppourt the use of
> distributed libraies.(Ie you can inline parts from a remote host.)
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> Any plans to make this possible in L-Draw?
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>
> alex
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| (...) Wouldn't this be really really slow while before the web cache fills up? I suppose you could test the speed without a rewrite by samba sharing an LDRAW directory across the internet and then setting your ldrawdir path to something like (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| As part of my project for college I am finding that a large number of Pro Acitectural Cad systems suppourt the use of distributed libraies.(Ie you can inline parts from a remote host.) Any plans to make this possible in L-Draw? alex (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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