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Re: Santa Fe El Capitan Hi-Level
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 23 Dec 2004 21:49:42 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, James Mathis wrote:
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Wow! That’s a really good way to approach getting the parts you need. The
part acquisition has always troubled me. I want people to have as easy a
time building the model as possible, and making an MPD file available to
assist this process should be fine. I have some tweaking to do the MPD file
that I would release for this application. Please forgive me that this might
take another day or two.
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Thanks James. No rush, please take your time. I’ll be up to my ears in
Christmas festivities for the foreseeable future anyway :-) Take as long as you
like.
When you do get around to it (again, no rush!) one thing I found was that I’d
have to modify the MPD file to get the Ldraw part numbers to match the Peeron
part numbers used in the inventories. Typically it would be something like
someone used a “Tile” part in Ldraw whereas the Peeron inventory for my sets
specified “Tile w/ Groove” parts. You’d end up with it saying you’re missing
parts when you really weren’t. There are also a few parts that simply don’t
match between Ldraw and Peeron. The end result was that I would modifify the
MPD to a point that it would work perfect with Peeron but then MLCAD couldn’t
find all the parts if I tried to open it there. (I modify a copy of the MPD
with a text editor, instead of MLCAD, since I’m doing simple search and replace
work). Anyway, my point is you can’t make it perfect but there are a few things
you can do (like using tile w/groove) that will make the MPD more Peeron
compatible.
Thanks and Happy Holidays!
-Paul
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| "Paul S. D'Urbano" <durbano@optonline.net> wrote in message news:I973Au.MDF@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) I'd (...) Peeron (...) like (...) sets (...) missing (...) don't (...) the (...) couldn't (...) MPD (...) replace (...) things (...) (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Santa Fe El Capitan Hi-Level
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| (...) Wow! That's a really good way to approach getting the parts you need. The part acquisition has always troubled me. I want people to have as easy a time building the model as possible, and making an MPD file available to assist this process (...) (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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