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Re: Parts-authoring FAQ? (Was: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer)
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Wed, 30 Aug 2000 18:36:46 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Chris Dee wrote:
>
> > A FAQ/Tutorial has been suggested before (several times), and I offered to
> > co-ordinate, but haven't gotten around to it yet - mainly because I am unsure
> > what topics need to be addressed. I'll take another look at it, but if anyone
> > has ideas of topics that ought to be included, please post them here. In fact • I
> > am sure I sent in a more up-to-date version of the primitives reference.
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> A tutorial would be nice, but a FAQ would be easier to put together.
>
> Some additional material/ideas:
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> See <http://news.lugnet.com/cad/dev/?n=4818> for CATEGORY/KEYWORD.
> Probably needs to be boiled down, it seems long.
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> I posted three basic guidelines about orientation & positioning a couple
> weeks ago. <http://news.lugnet.com/cad/dev/?n=4987>. There's also a tip
> or two on changing the position of the part after it's finished. O&P
> guides could definitely be more fully explored.
>
> ibid, see some information about plagarizing other people's parts.
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> There should be at least one 'Getting started' topic, like what you posted
> in <http://www.lugnet.com/cad/dev/?n=3571>, and John posted in
> <http://www.lugnet.com/cad/dev/?n=3619>.
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> ibid, how about a 'Getting started with patterned parts' topic?
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> Some topics can be culled from the under-development stuff at
> <http://www.ldraw.org/dev/>. I especially like Tom Burger's LDU chart.
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> Some other ideas:
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> 'Formatting the parts header'
> 'Naming your part'
> 'Numbering your part'
> 'Basic primitive usage'
> 'Advanced primitive usage'
> 'Official, unofficial, mockup'
> 'L3P compliance'
> 'BFC considerations'
> 'How many decimal places should I use?'
> 'How accurate do I have to be?'
> 'How do I submit a part?'
> 'Using subparts (compare and constrast subpart use in development and
> publishing)'
> 'File types: parts, s\subparts, ~subparts, primitives, 48\primitives,
> shortcuts, _shortcuts'
> 'What tools are available?'
> 'Making tubes/torii out of cylinder primitives'
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> Steve
Thanks Steve, that's a useful list of topics to start with.
Is access to Tom Burger's tools at http://www.ldraw.org/dev/reference/ somehow
restricted, as I cant seem to access it? I get a (Couldn't find the resource)
page.
Chris
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