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Re: Part Numbering Crisis in LDraw
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Date: 
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 06:58:35 GMT
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On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 14:40:24 GMT, blisses@worldnet.att.net (Steve Bliss) wrote:

> On Sat, 6 Mar 1999 04:50:51 GMT, legoverse@geocities.com (Terry K)
> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 5 Mar 1999 15:25:09 GMT, sparre@sys-323.risoe.dk (Jacob Sparre
> > Andersen) wrote:
> > 
> > > What about just having "30086.dat" and "30087.dat" in colour
> > > 16 as the official parts, and then let people insert the two
> > > parts themselves.
> > > 
> > > - the parts will always be listed next to each other.
> > > - the parts will always need the same location and
> > >   orientation (hopefully).
> > > 
> > > So it shouldn't be much more work to insert the two molds
> > > instead of the collected part.
> > 
> > For now, that would be a good solution. Of course, Steve would need to split
> > the pieces first.
> 
> I'll look into it.  The main problems are (1) I'm not sure it can be
> done without rewriting the existing code, which I don't *really* feel
> like doing.  And (2) I'm not planning on cutting a dinghy open to see
> what the inside looks like.  So any interior detail would be a guess.

1. Understood.
2. That's a given.  I don't really expect to see detail.  It is not something
that would be a requirement, IMO.

> BTW, there was a report of a pink dinghy in Belville?  Do we have the
> long-part-number for that one?  Is it similar to the yellow-specific
> part number?

No idea.  It was news to me.  Joshua might know something about it, but he
never mentioned that one to me.

> When are you cutting the 99-02 update file?  What's my deadlline for
> getting a set of cut-up dinghy files to you?

I haven't yet starting tallying the vote files, and there are some other
numbering problems that really need to be addressed first as well.
So it will be a while.
I don't know how many people are eagerly waiting for that dinghy though, so if
it did miss the update, it would probably not be the end of the world.  :-)
Now the canoe is a different matter.......

-- Terry K --



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  Re: Part Numbering Crisis in LDraw
 
(...) You rang? :-P The pink raft (dinghy is too much typing :-) can be seen here: (URL) Now the canoe is a different matter....... Oh gawd. :-P When even *I* get the joke, it's old news Terry. -- joshua (28 years ago, 10-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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  Re: Part Numbering Crisis in LDraw
 
(...) I'll look into it. The main problems are (1) I'm not sure it can be done without rewriting the existing code, which I don't *really* feel like doing. And (2) I'm not planning on cutting a dinghy open to see what the inside looks like. So any (...) (28 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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