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[Roland Melkert]

Fully agree. Embedded parts should have precedence so a model using unofficial parts won't be broken inadvertantly. I remember a time when embedding parts was little used and it was a struggle to find again the unofficial parts used by author.

I don't understand. If the parts are embedded in the MPD they will be loaded instead of the library ones.

But only withing the context of the model.

So if you put a stud.dat inside the mpd with e.g. a yellow 4-4disc.dat only the embedded files actually referencing stud.dat will use that stud variant.

All the other non embedded files will use the normal stud.dat as found in <lib>\p

Like so:
   

If I understand you correctly you would want all studs to be yellow in that image ?

LDView seems to ignore it and use the library one for everything.
   


mpd code:

Code:

0 FILE main.ldr
1 7 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 -1 819.dat
1 10 40 -24 -30 -1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 -1 3065.dat
1 10 0 -24 -30 -1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 -1 3065.dat
1 10 -30 -24 -20 0 0 -1 0 1 0 1 0 0 3065.dat
1 10 -40 -48 20 -1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 -1 brick.dat

0 FILE brick.dat
0 UNOFFICIAL PART
0 BFC CERTIFY CCW
1 16 -10 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 stud.dat
1 16 10 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 stud.dat
1 16 0 24 0 20 0 0 0 24 0 0 0 20 box.dat

0 FILE stud.dat
0 UNOFFICIAL PART
0 BFC CERTIFY CCW
1 16 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6 4-4edge.dat
1 16 0 -4 0 6 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6 4-4edge.dat
1 16 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 -4 0 0 0 6 4-4cyli.dat
1 14 0 -4 0 6 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6 4-4disc.dat
0 1 16 0 -4 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 logo3.dat