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Best practice for using unofficial parts?
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
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Mon, 1 Sep 2008 21:27:45 GMT
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At BrickFair I made an MPD file of a covered cylindrical hopper car by Margaret
Keys, but it used two unofficial parts. To make the file, I downloaded the
parts (and the needed subassembly files) into my parts library, but if I share
it with others then the unofficial parts won't be there.
What's the best way to handle this? I see two options:
1. Release the file as is, with instructions on which files you need to download
from the unofficial parts library
or
2. Include the unofficial parts in the MPD file itself.
I've done both in the past, but is there an accepted standard best practice?
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Best practice for using unofficial parts?
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| (...) I don't know. LDView takes care of retrieving missing parts in MPDs that I download, but there is a case to be made for including unofficial parts in the MPD. Since the parts are unofficial, changes to their origin or orientation might take (...) (16 years ago, 1-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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