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(...) The easiest way I know of is editing the text of the .dat/.mpd file in Notepad. -For mpd to dat, simply delete the lines starting with FILE, and those with the model title, Name, etc. -For separating .mpd's, open up a few Notepads and then (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Wow, that was such a simple, but effective answer! I was making it way too difficult! Thanks! Jake --- Jake McKee AFOL LUGNET Member #211 (23 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Ryan Farrington" <ryanjf@ifriendly.com> wrote in message news:000b01c0f0e1$03...dly.com... (...) with (...) If you do this then you end up with referenced parts in the dat that don't exist as they were part of the mpd format, and you get all the (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) You are right. That is absolutely what it did. I went through my sub models one by one to: - Create a comment line telling me where each submodel started - Opened both the master file and the submodel file in Notepad - Copied the submodel (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) program (...) The Inline function in LDAO (by Steve Bliss) takes all the referenced subfiles in a DAT file and merges them into one file by transforming the parts. However, with the popularity of MPD, fewer people are inlining than they used (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Bram Lambrecht" <bram@cwru.edu> wrote in message news:004301c0f280$9a...erv.net... (...) I new there was something that already did this, but I couldn't remember what it was. Guess I'll have to look at using LDAO again to make this easier. One (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Daniel Crichton wrote: [snip] (...) [more snip] I think Ryan just forgot the step 'save each section to its own .DAT file'. At least, I hope he didn't mean to just concatenate everything together in a single file. That'd be (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Heh, yeah. Hopefully that step was self-evident. :) Another step I left out is deleting the submodel line from the main model. --Ryan (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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