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Re: New Tutorial - LDD->LDraw and LDraw->LDD conversion
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Date: 
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:26:17 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.ldd, Steve Bliss wrote:
> Finally, the "Lookup" box on the PT is more powerful than it seems.  It will
> search on file numbers, part titles, and (if no unofficial match is found), it
> will attempt to cross-reference the search term with official parts.

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



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  Re: New Tutorial - LDD->LDraw and LDraw->LDD conversion
 
(...) 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 (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jan-08, to lugnet.cad.ldd)

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  Re: New Tutorial - LDD->LDraw and LDraw->LDD conversion
 
(...) 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 (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jan-08, to lugnet.cad.ldd)

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