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(...) I see it as being complimentary. My feeling is that good articles should be brought across to the main site. This, though, would be a decision for the webmasters and SteerCo and can probably wait until the wiki is up and running in full. Tim (17 years ago, 29-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) content for the site, or do you intend it to take over for major functions such as FAQ, Glossary, Tutorials, etc? Just curious how you see this playing with the site as a whole going forward. Overall, I think this is excellent--as you start to (...) (17 years ago, 29-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Please note that you will need to set up a new account for the wiki. Unfortunately it is difficult to share accounts from the main site. Sorry about this. Tim (17 years ago, 25-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Hi all, Following recent discussions, Dan Boger has very kindly set us up a wiki for LDraw. This is intended to be a way for anyone to add 'content' of relavence to LDraw easily and without relying on the time of the webmasters to integrate it into (...) (17 years ago, 25-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Articles on ldraw.org out of date - I can help
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(...) I think Curiously should be replaced with "Distressingly" or something similar. The official MPD tutorial on ldraw.org is telling people to do something that completely violates the MPD spec. If you follow those instructions, you'll end up (...) (17 years ago, 21-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Curiously enough, the tutorial cited ((URL)) recommends making the first submodel an empty model in order to "help in speeding up the upload time" for large models. I think it's interesting that MPD is still often presented as an extension to (...) (17 years ago, 19-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Tim, I agree. At the time the article was written, MPD was a way of packing files for easy shipping. These days it is the preffered way of working with any model that has at least one sub-model. Starting and ending as MPD is much better than (...) (17 years ago, 20-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Submission for MOTM/SOTM/POTM closes in a week
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hi folks, we still seek some entries for the MOTM/SOTM/POTM contest: (URL) consider submitting your work. deadline is 27.05.2007. beside all this please don't forget about RACHAL - The RAytraching CHALlange: (URL) Contest Coordinator (17 years ago, 20-May-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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--snip-- (...) I think we're not talking about the same proccess. For me 'making an MPD file' is something you do at edit time. Editing a bunch of files, then calling LPub to join them is not as easy as editing them in MLCAD using the MPD menu to (...) (17 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Well, because MLCad's process is so manual, it is very easy to create MPD files that are incomplete or not in the right order. One of MPD's rules is that the first FILE is the top level model. I've gotten plenty of letters from people who say (...) (17 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Becuase sadly when I was creating tutorials/articles for the site I only focused on the WINDOWS side of the house since I have zero MAC experience. =( MLCAD is the dominate GUI that users use when using LDraw. (...) Yes the pages were (...) (17 years ago, 4-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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--snip-- (...) There's discussions. I really think it's the optimal solution overall. Let's anyone with expertise create, improve or fix articles where they can and for an ldraw audience I think that wiki markup should be easy enough. Tim (17 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Maybe it could just explain the theory without including instructions how to do it, then show the "easy way". James (17 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I hate to bring this up, but I've noticed some of the Mac related questions I get may be because the tutorials are all MLCad specific. Is it possible to include information on that page how to do it on Mac with Bricksmith? There is something (...) (17 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I wouldn't call loading LPub to make an MPD the easy way. The easy way is to use the menus in MLCad. The article is most certainly out of date. (...) But we don't learn how an MS Word document is formatted before using a word processor. (...) (17 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) It does show the "easy" way as well: (URL) reason the EASY way is not shown first is becuase users should learn the THEORY behind what they are doing rather than just learning how to do it. Eg. You can use a calculator to do multiplication. (...) (17 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Any reason why we'd want that instead of just wiki.ldraw.org, or ldraw.org/wiki/? Dan (17 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Strike that. We can add you as an article editor. You simple need to email us with your LDraw User ID. -Orion (17 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I'd see it as a side-wiki probably. Move as much content as people are willing to open source across but keep the best articles fixed on ldraw.org. Would mean anyone could edit tutorials etc. but we'd have fixed versions. Tim (not speaking as (...) (17 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Hmm - an ldraw wiki? That's a good idea, and it's not hard. For example you could sign up for a wiki on pbwiki.com (ldraw.pbwiki.com is available) and we can transfer the existing content there and move the links on the existing site to point (...) (17 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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