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Re: New guidelines on parts and numbers (long)
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Fri, 2 Apr 1999 07:03:47 GMT
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On Thu, 1 Apr 1999 13:36:36 GMT, blisses@worldnet.att.net (Steve Bliss) wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Apr 1999 11:26:27 GMT, Papp Imre <ipapp@GEOMETRIA.hu> wrote:
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> > The concept is very clear and it would be good that the rules could be
> > summarized in the FAQ based on Steve's and Terry's explanation.
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> Is it time to start thinking of a separate FAQ for part authors?
Quite possibly a good idea. Somebody with authoring skills and freetime to
maintain it would be needed.
> > My only question is how will the concept handle those situations when a
> > single part has two different colors and both can have values more then
> > one. As far as I can remember the "2440.DAT Hinge 6 x 3
> > Radar/Blade/Spoiler/Panel" part arose such a discussion. (The body of
> > the part and the pattern may have different colors). In that particular
> > case the problem was solved by creating different patterned parts. This
> > is OK, but what if in the future part creators will really need to use
> > more than one changeable color on a single unseparatable part. I know
> > that this will very unlikely to happen, but this is caused by the basic
> > design of the DAT files, ie. it has a single 'property' (#16) to refer
> > to the free color of the part.
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> > Is this a real problem or the concept makes possible to resolve these
> > situations too?
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> I would say this could be handled by putting the different-colored lines in
> different files (probably in parts\s). Then the actual part files can
> reference the sub-files with the proper colors.
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> This would also allow (advanced) modellers to change the colors, by using
> the subfiles directly in their models.
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> Steve
That would probably be the best idea.
We will occasionally have pieces that require special handling. That is
unavoidable. Steve's method of handling that is good because it helps keep
similar part files "connected". So when improvements are made to the basic
file, any derivative file shortcuts based on it will automatically get updated.
-- Terry K --
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| (...) Is it time to start thinking of a separate FAQ for part authors? (...) I would say this could be handled by putting the different-colored lines in different files (probably in parts\s). Then the actual part files can reference the sub-files (...) (26 years ago, 1-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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