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Re: Formalizing a method for handling synthesizable parts
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lugnet.cad.dev
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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.
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> 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.
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> 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)
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> 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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