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Re: Need Help with Dat files not being found
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lugnet.cad.mlcad
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Tue, 21 May 2002 12:36:13 GMT
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> first of all, which "plan" are you trying to open? If it is very recent,
> there may be many parts in it referenced that are not part of the OFFICIAL
> Ldraw parts list. Having said that, have you tried to down load the bulk of
> the "unofficial" parts list (place them in your models directory and have
> MLCAD scan there or put them right in with your official parts directory and
> rescan)? You can find these unofficial parts at
> http://www.ldraw.org/library/unofficial/
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> Hope that helps.
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> -Jeff McClain
Jeff,
The plan is one that I found on the lugnet train board for a motorized
switch box. I can't remember how old the plan is but I'd say likely about a
year as the thread of messages were fairly old.
The parts that are listed as not being found are in the parts.lst file which
is why I think that I'm not doing something right. I don't know how the
parts get expanded from the parts.lst file to the .dat files in the parts
direcory. I was thinking that the mklist utility might be doing that.
I'll try to download the unofficial parts later today and see what happens.
Tom
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| Update I downloaded the complete update for the parts. I extracted the file into the parts directory. Running mklist.exe returned a new parts list. However, the parts needed are not in the complete.exe. I took a look at the official parts list which (...) (23 years ago, 22-May-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Need Help with Dat files not being found
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| (...) first of all, which "plan" are you trying to open? If it is very recent, there may be many parts in it referenced that are not part of the OFFICIAL Ldraw parts list. Having said that, have you tried to down load the bulk of the "unofficial" (...) (23 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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