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Re: Articles on ldraw.org out of date - I can help
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Sun, 20 May 2007 15:12:08 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Timothy Gould wrote:
> --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

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 starting as LDR
and ending in MPD.

Kevin



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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 (...) (19 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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