I personally do it this way:
since the MODELS folder only contains the 2 boring default models plus some text files
(which IMHO instead should be in the LDRAW root folder, or in some history folder or releasenotes or elsewhere),
I have moved away all that contents to somewhere else, i.e., "MODELS_BAK".
I then use the MODELS folder as my folder for unofficial parts and primitives
written by myself as well as those downloaded from e.g. the PT.
My models I then create in various other folders, located arbitrarily on my harddisk.
This way also very old software like L3P, which does not know anything about custom folders
like UNOFFICIAL etc. works as a breeze.
This works with L3P (I am using L3P v1.4 BETA 20080930 (Win32)):
L3P looks first in the current folder, then in MODELS folder, then in PARTS, then in P, as far as I know.
So this works perfect for me.
It's kind of a workaround, because of course the MODELS folder is not intended for that purpose,
but because the spec said "look in MODELS first, then in PARTS, then in P", this does the trick.
since the MODELS folder only contains the 2 boring default models plus some text files
(which IMHO instead should be in the LDRAW root folder, or in some history folder or releasenotes or elsewhere),
I have moved away all that contents to somewhere else, i.e., "MODELS_BAK".
I then use the MODELS folder as my folder for unofficial parts and primitives
written by myself as well as those downloaded from e.g. the PT.
My models I then create in various other folders, located arbitrarily on my harddisk.
This way also very old software like L3P, which does not know anything about custom folders
like UNOFFICIAL etc. works as a breeze.
This works with L3P (I am using L3P v1.4 BETA 20080930 (Win32)):
L3P looks first in the current folder, then in MODELS folder, then in PARTS, then in P, as far as I know.
So this works perfect for me.
It's kind of a workaround, because of course the MODELS folder is not intended for that purpose,
but because the spec said "look in MODELS first, then in PARTS, then in P", this does the trick.