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"Ross Crawford" <ross.{mylastname}@gmail.com> wrote in message news:JvDz9G.FAt@lugnet.com... (...) the PT, if some part already exists as an official part, it would be better than saying it couldn't be found. The fact that it couldn't be found (...) (17 years ago, 29-Jan-08, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) You have a good point here, Geoffrey. Having a central place to find a part, official or not, would be great. Philo (17 years ago, 29-Jan-08, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) A couple of things about this... I agree it'd be pretty cool for ldraw.org to have a visual catalog of official parts. But, if you use peeron.com to search for parts, it's pretty easy to tell if a part has an official LDraw file or not -- if (...) (17 years ago, 29-Jan-08, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) It doesn't do that when I type stuff into the Lookup box on the PT. A search for whip only returns one match, when the official library has 4 files with whip in the title or keywords. The match that is found has whip in the keywords. --Travis (17 years ago, 29-Jan-08, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) I believe that's because searching for "whip" returns a match from the unofficial parts. Since an unofficial match is made, the lookup doesn't go on to examine the official parts. The Lookup was intended as a tool to assist PT users. So it's (...) (17 years ago, 29-Jan-08, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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