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Re: Best practice for using unofficial parts?
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Thu, 4 Sep 2008 21:31:07 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Michael Heidemann wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Jim DeVona wrote:
> > In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, William R. Ward wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> > 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 place after you share the MPD, changing the apparent construction of
> > the model.
> >
> > For that reason, I'll venture to say that the best practice is to include
> > unofficial parts in the MPD.
> >
> > Jim
>
> I agree to Jim. To make it in an easy way I wrote a prog MPDCenter that is still
> available. Maybe you can use it.
I downloaded tried to install MPDCenter from here:
http://www.ldraw.org/Downloads-req-viewdownloaddetails-lid-64.html
but the installer is all in German, which I can't read, and I got an error
message that I can't understand... I would copy/paste the error, but it doesn't
allow me to select the text from the dialog box.
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