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Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository
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Sat, 12 Jun 1999 15:32:49 GMT
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At 03:05 PM 6/12/99 +0000, you wrote:
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.

This is a complex issue. The thing is, what is easy to click together with
Lego could be difficult with LDraw. I would say LDraw uses submodels much
more often than Lego would in its instructions. Say for example an angled
wing assembly like on the M:Tron Particle Ionizer. in Ldraw you would
probably want a submodel, but in real life you could just click it
together. So this needs to be handled on a per-case basis. I would prefer
each submodel in a model (or set if there are no models) ;) so that someone
can work with just a submodel, for example, the cargo boxes on the M:Tron
Multi Core, or the Space Police jail on the Galactic Mediator. But the
actual construction of a model in ldraw should be addressed in a per-case
basis. But ideally the only submodels would be the official submodels in
the instructions.
-Tim Courtney
ldraw.org Project Coordinator

http://www.ldraw.org
http://www.zacktron.com

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  Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository
 
(...) All LDraw submodels that are not official sub-models can be inlined and then the separate parts moved around to keep the order of attaching pieces correct. Ideally, an instruction generator should be able to go through the main DAT file and (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
  Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository
 
(...) Good solution to this problem. We are assuming that these models will not be edited or modified or if they are very little, right? The idea of this repository is to give people access to the files so they can look at them in LDraw and if they (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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