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Re: Best practice for using unofficial parts?
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
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Fri, 5 Sep 2008 03:43:48 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, William R. Ward wrote:
> 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.
I find German hard to read, but not at all impossible. And I don't think Swedish
is much closer related to German than English is.
Anyway, you can always make a screen dump and crop out the error messagebox.
/Tore
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