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Subject:	Re: Articles on ldraw.org out of date - I can help
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
Date:	Thu, 17 May 2007 18:05:42 GMT
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--snip-- > Maybe we're not talking the same "easy vs hard" processes?!? 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 assemble them as you go. What LPub does is 'join LDraw files into an MPD file' and I agree it is a very easy way of doing that. Goes in the same article but should be in different sections. --snip-- > Kevin Tim

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		Re: Articles on ldraw.org out of date - I can help
(...) 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 (...) (18 years ago, 20-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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		Re: Articles on ldraw.org out of date - I can help
(...) 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 (...) (18 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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