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Re: MPD Parts? (and a confession)
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Sat, 27 Mar 1999 23:31:13 GMT
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Well, as soon as any toy manufacturer offers me an incentive
(hint hint), I'll add a user-definable search path for LDLite, so
it could look in /rok as well as /p and /parts and /models.
-gyug
Ben Bennett wrote:
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> In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes:
> > On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 14:24:51 GMT, "Ben Bennett" <sink@limey.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Okay, so it is easy to display an MPD file, but what do people think about
> > > allowing part files to be MPDs?
> >
> > I suggested this for LDraw2. I think Jacob is including some variation of
> > this idea.
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> Cool. I have it implemented and it works tolerably well.
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> > > And my confession, I am using LDraw (& friends) for evil. I am not • modelling
> > > Lego but rather Rokenbok (see http://www.limey.net/~fiji/rokenworld/ for
> > > details).
> >
> > Cool! I thought about modeling K'nex in LDraw, but never pursued the idea.
> > K'nex is even further from LEGO than Rokenbok -- K'nex has no
> > compatibility.
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> Rokenbok is mostly not compatible, only the plates have the requisite nubs on
> them. But that is cool since you can build any Lego construction off the
> plates and use the many existing Lego parts (the main reason I chose LDraw was
> to allow access to all the cool Lego parts).
>
> [ Regarding how to do the Rokenbok Subparts ]
> > You could:
> >
> > - Just store your common files in the current LDraw\p directory. This will
> > keep them out of the parts-catalog namespace. • ...
> > - Put the subfiles in LDraw\parts\s. This directory is used for subfiles
> > which are not used for many different parts. But to reference a file in
> > LDraw\parts\s, you have to include s\ as part of the filename. Part 2593
> > is one example of this.
>
> The main problem with the subparts is that they are completely have exposed
> sides that only get closed when combined with the other subparts (rotational
> symmetry) so they are more like primitives except that they can only be used
> by specific parts, so they are specific primitives. So I don't want to put
> them in or under the parts directory since they are dangerous, and they are
> not sufficiently generic for me to considert them primitives. So maybe I will
> put them in p/rok directory to note that they are special cases.
>
> -ben
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