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Re: Patterned Parts Numbering
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Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:04:24 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> >  How about replacing the .dat extension with the pattern number for
> >  these filenames?  (Something like 3626bp.101)
> 
> But will that work in LEdit?  I normally specify part names in LEdit
> by the base file name, i.e. everything before the ".DAT" and LEdit
> adds the ".DAT".

  While not directly related, I've found that, while using subparts from the
parts\s directory, the names will be truncated if they're more than 8
characters long and therefore won't render in LEdit or LDraw.  For instance, a
line like:

1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 s\newparts.dat

will be clipped to read:

1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 s\newparts.d

or something similar.  I would expect that the same would occur with a 32-bit
name/extension combo, and it would seem that any renderer using LEdit as a
base platform would fail to display parts with such truncated names.
  Does LDraw even recognize non-.dat extensions?  If you run MAKELIST, the
PARTS.LST won't list any files not ending in .dat.
  As such, my vote is to steer clear of long or non-.dat file names, if for no
other reason than we're a long way from exhausting the part name possibilities
even within the strictures of our current format.

     Dave!



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  Re: Patterned Parts Numbering
 
(...) Yes. As long as you specify the extension, LDraw doesn't care what it is. LEdit might be a different story, I don't know. (...) Don't use MAKELIST, it can't handle more than 1000 parts. Use MKLIST instead. And MKLIST indexes every file in the (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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  Re: Patterned Parts Numbering
 
(...) Oh yeah! It's my fav modeling tool. I seem to remember that Jeremy Sproat also said he used LEdit. (...) But will that work in LEdit? I normally specify part names in LEdit by the base file name, i.e. everything before the ".DAT" and LEdit (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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