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Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
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Sat, 12 Jun 1999 15:05:02 GMT
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On 6/11/99, at 11:28 PM, Tim Courtney wrote:
> At 02:40 AM 6/12/99 +0000, Scott R Dennett wrote:
> > OK since the header seems to be a problem I will use set 7130 as
> > an example and I will explain each part of the header in depth.
> >
> > 0 Name: M7130-99.dat
> > 0 Snowspeeder
> > 0 Author: Ryan Dennett
> > 0 Official Model Repository
> >
> > OK line one: M stands for model, it has been used for as long as
> > I have
> > been around. I don't like S for set.
>
> I would agree with all except this. My reason is because 'set' can be used
> to refer to the entire package, where 'model' would refer to individual
> items within a set. ie. Terminal, Airplane, Helicopter, and Service
> Vehicle for an airport set. We could call the overall thing S and the
> submodels M, but that would be very confusing and break the models up in
> the directories. That would not work out well. Still, it is a Lego set, a
> model is generally agreed upon to be a component of a set.
OK I can live with that.
> As I wrote you, if you're going to name submodels a, b, c...etc. let the
> letter have significance. a should be the first submodel appearing in the
> instruction booklet, b the second...etc...
Do you have to have everything that is a submodel in the
instructions, a
submodel in the model. There are times when that doesn't make
sense.
If not we need to know which ones are complex enough to include.
Ryan
"Build or build not. There is no try." - Lego Master Yoda
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