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Why is 165.dat (and many others) considered a part (in !LDRAW_ORG)

It will mess (among other things) with fake seam processing.

And you can't just assume the ~ means subpart ether as there are countless 'obsolete' dat files using the same prefix.


I'm working on this for a bug in LDCad, but I'm not sure this is a 'real' bug or a wrong .dat header issue.

(2020-03-28, 0:04)Roland Melkert Wrote: [ -> ]Why is 165.dat (and many others) considered a part (in !LDRAW_ORG)

It will mess (among other things) with fake seam processing.

And you can't just assume the ~ means subpart ether as there are countless 'obsolete' dat files using the same prefix.


I'm working on this for a bug in LDCad, but I'm not sure this is a 'real' bug or a wrong .dat header issue.

165.dat, 166.dat and u9255.dat (and many others) type should be changed to "0 !LDRAW_ORG Part Flexible_Section", and moved to a part name with k0x suffix

(2020-03-28, 7:41)Philippe Hurbain Wrote: [ -> ]165.dat, 166.dat and u9255.dat (and many others) type should be changed to "0 !LDRAW_ORG Part Flexible_Section", and moved to a part name with k0x suffix

That would help the fake seam detection.

But thinking there will always be exceptions I also decided to create a new (shadow) meta (!LDCAD HINTS) to override fakeseam behavior.