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Re: Articles on ldraw.org out of date - I can help
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Thu, 3 May 2007 18:59:11 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Ahui Herrera wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, William R. Ward wrote:
> > I was looking through some of the articles on ldraw.org and found some to be out
> > of date or to have errors. I'd be happy to help clean this up but I don't know
> > what the process is to get access or to submit changes...?
> >
> > For example http://www.ldraw.org/Article102.html has a long process for creating
> > MPD files, whereas in newer versions of MLCAD you can just use the Multipart
> > menu to do it in one step.
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> It does show the "easy" way as well:
> http://www.ldraw.org/Article102.html#How_to_2
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> The 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.
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 The article is most certainly out of date.
> Eg.
> You can use a calculator to do multiplication. Yet your school teacher first
> showed you how to do it on paper the long way before allowing the use of the
> calculator for the longer multiplication problems. Why? Without a solid
> foundation you would be doomed to never understand why you got the answer you
> got on the calculator.
But we don't learn how an MS Word document is formatted before using a word
processor. Personally I think the easy way should be a) right and b) first.
> -Ahui
> LDraw Help Desk
Tim
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