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Re: Conversion file for ldraw to ldd
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Date: 
Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:34:41 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.ldd, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.ldd, Lars C. Hassing wrote:
> > In lugnet.cad.ldd, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> > > I haven't ever tried LDD on the Mac,
> > 
> > Nor have I.
> > 
> > >   but I do have some Mac info that might
> > > help.  First of all, unlike the system Windows Open/Save dialogs, the system Mac
> > > Open/Save Panels don't support file type selection, so doing this at all
> > > requires custom code unless an app is NSDocument-based.
> > 
> > L3Lab doesn't have a Save dialog, but in the Open dialog
> > there is a Pop Up Button with label "Enable",
> > that let's you choose from:
> >    All Readable Documents
> >    L3 LDraw file (ldr)
> >    L3 LDraw file (mpd)
> >    All Documents
> > 
> > If you select e.g. "L3 LDraw file (ldr)"
> > all files but *.ldr are grayed out.
> > 
> > L3Lab is Carbon, I use NavCreateGetFileDialog and
> > NavDialogSetFilterTypeIdentifiers.
> > /Lars
> 
> Once I got a better ldraw.xml, the conversion process provided me with a valid
> ldraw file.
> 
> The instructions associated with LXF seem to indicate that LDD knows about
> sub-models, but yet it seems to in-line them when spitting out the ldr file.
> 
> I guess LDD does not support MPD.
> 
> Kevin

I believe it can read them but can't write them. Earlier versions definitely
could but the newer ones may be missing that feature. And yeah the LXF file
format definitely has the concept of sub-models.

Tim



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  Re: Conversion file for ldraw to ldd
 
(...) Tim, I've been face down in LPub 4...... Has the LDraw community created its own convertor that supports MDP format? Thanks, Kevin (18 years ago, 26-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ldd)

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  Re: Conversion file for ldraw to ldd
 
(...) Once I got a better ldraw.xml, the conversion process provided me with a valid ldraw file. The instructions associated with LXF seem to indicate that LDD knows about sub-models, but yet it seems to in-line them when spitting out the ldr file. (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad.ldd)

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