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Recommendation for future updates - Nathanel Titane - 2014-07-01
Might be interesting to add an 'unofficial' (unofficial/p /parts /parts/s) directory under ldraw to enable users to dump the unofficial required parts for their projects, and have them use the MLCad.ini path walk for scanning parts, makes for a cleaner integration of the parts without messing with the official library.
Thoughts?
Re: Recommendation for future updates - Travis Cobbs - 2014-07-01
This was debated a number of years ago by the LSC, and got voted down.
As I'm sure you know, LDView automatically creates an Unofficial directory when you load a file with unofficial parts and haven't disabled its automatic download of unofficial parts. Additionally, Willy has an mlcad.ini tutorial that includes adding the unofficial directories to its search paths.
Re: Recommendation for future updates - Nathanel Titane - 2014-07-01
My recommendation was based on the MLCAD.ini Unofficial directory search. oh well... Guess I'll just make a post about it or add a recommendation in the Wiki
Re: Recommendation for future updates - Willy Tschager - 2014-07-02
I'm currently working on a tutorial which teaches in detail how to add unofficial parts.
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Re: Recommendation for future updates - Willy Tschager - 2014-07-10
here it is: http://forums.ldraw.org/showthread.php?tid=13419&pid=13419#pid13419
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