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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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 years ago, 29-Jan-08, to lugnet.cad.ldd)

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