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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 (...) (18 years ago, 20-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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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 (18 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 (...) (18 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 (...) (18 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 (...) (18 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 (18 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 (18 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 (...) (18 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. (...) (18 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. (...) (18 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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