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Re: Feature Request - Unofficial Parts category
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Date: 
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 01:28:21 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Orion Pobursky writes:
In lugnet.cad.mlcad, James Wilson writes:
Would it be possible to add a category for Unofficial parts to the MLCad
tree?  That way unofficial parts could be dumped into a separate directory
(sorry, "folder") and yet still show up in the list.

Or is it possible already?

Thanks,
James Wilson
Dallas, TX
Lugnet # 1783

One way I use is to dump all the parts into the LDRAW\MODELS directory.
They can't be in a subdirectory of the MODELS folder.  This works fine if
you don't make extensive use of the MODELS directory.  If you do use this
directory for storing you projects then I suggest you make subdirectories in
which to store your model files.

This IS a good and clever workaround but I think the idea of an UNOFFICIAL
directory DOES have merit... the issue is that to do it right would you need
an /s and /p directories too?



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  Re: Feature Request - Unofficial Parts category
 
(...) I agree that a good feature to add in the next version of MLCad would be a user specified unofficial parts directory. Yes, this directory would require a /S and /P subdirectories. But if you dump the entire contents of the ldrawunf.zip the /S (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)

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  Re: Feature Request - Unofficial Parts category
 
(...) One way I use is to dump all the parts into the LDRAW\MODELS directory. They can't be in a subdirectory of the MODELS folder. This works fine if you don't make extensive use of the MODELS directory. If you do use this directory for storing you (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)

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