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Subject:	Re: LSC - request for defining a WORKING connection database standard
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.lcd, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
Date:	Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:11:36 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Damien Guichard wrote: > There is no chicken-egg problem: the tool always precedes the database. > Would you model parts without MLCad, LeoCad or LDraw? > I doubt anybody would. > Then people would model POV parts because POV is a "working" tool. nod, yes. > Sadly enough, building such a tool will take very long time because such > tools are generally built by a single person. As far as i know every LDraw > compatible tool is single-authored, while the LDraw database is > multitude-authored. Add to this the fact that to get a working connection-enabled tool, you need start with (or at least develop along the way) a working GUI-based editing tool. That really narrows the field of potential tool-developers/standard-makers, because any such PTD/SM either (a) has to write their own tool or (b) has to use someone else's (open source) tool. Steve

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		...large project anyone?
--SNIP-- (...) I'm going to go a bit more general here so this is an answer to both parent and grandparent and probably other relatives too. -- Why does one person need to do the whole thing? We have a wealth of skills and experience in the Lego CAD (...) (19 years ago, 18-Jul-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.lcd, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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		Re: LSC - request for defining a WORKING connection database standard
(...) Hi Willy, I think "working" needs a tool. 1. there is a tool 2. there is a developping database There is no chicken-egg problem: the tool always precedes the database. Would you model parts without MLCad, LeoCad or LDraw? I doubt anybody (...) (19 years ago, 18-Jul-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.lcd, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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