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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 The article is most certainly out of date.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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(...) 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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(...) 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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--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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(...) 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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(...) 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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