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Re: Formalizing a method for handling synthesizable parts
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Date: 
Sun, 6 Oct 2002 16:19:11 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Kevin Clague writes:
> Orion,
>  I had not thought about this.  This is consistant with Steve Bliss'
> concern about putting out the synthesized parts in a seperate file so that
> they can be cosidered one part by other LDRAW compatible programs.
> 
>  I can see two issues here.  The first is simply "what do I name this
> external file?"  I just have to figure out the specification for this issue.
> 
>  The other issue is deeper.  For electric cables, lsynth actually knows
> nothing about the ends of the cables (rotation sensor, light sensor, 2x2
> connectors.)

You could always train it to know (and do it in a data file driven way so
it's easy to add new types)

> 
>  It only knows where the synthesized parts are.  It seems counter intuitive
> that the cable ends would be in one file and the cable middle is in a
> different file.  Maybe I'll just ignore this incongruity for now.

2 levels of subfiles perhaps??? one subfile for the part which contains the
synthesized part reference (another subfile) as well as references to the ends?



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  Re: Formalizing a method for handling synthesizable parts
 
Orion, I had not thought about this. This is consistant with Steve Bliss' concern about putting out the synthesized parts in a seperate file so that they can be cosidered one part by other LDRAW compatible programs. I can see two issues here. The (...) (24 years ago, 6-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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