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Re: Proposal
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Wed, 2 May 2001 21:03:58 GMT
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I've had a few thoughts on what the extension could be, but I'm not attached
to any of them.  So, thoughts?

I think you could use .mpd

Many of the tools already accept this extension, and I believe (correct me
if I am wrong someone) that you can rename your model files, and any model
files you download, to use this extension.  Of course parts and primitives
should continue to use .dat, but you seldome need to open these.

-Chuck



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  Re: Proposal
 
(...) You and Fredrik are both correct on this, of course. And most tools will accept any extension on files, so if you have a DAT model named whatever.foo, you can still render it in LDraw, LDLite or L3Lab (for example). Steve (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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I've got a bit of a problem with the LDraw derived software. I love the tools I use. My problem is with the unfortunate choice of filename extension. When LDraw/LEdit were written, it didn't really matter much. However, nowadays file (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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