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Re: Patterned Parts Numbering
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Thu, 19 Oct 2000 03:34:08 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Dave Schuler writes:
> Does LDraw even recognize non-.dat extensions?
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.
> If you run MAKELIST, the
> PARTS.LST won't list any files not ending in .dat.
Don't use MAKELIST, it can't handle more than 1000 parts. Use MKLIST instead.
And MKLIST indexes every file in the parts\ directory, it doesn't care what
the extension is.
> 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.
Agreed.
Steve
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| (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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