(Yesterday, 21:37)N. W. Perry Wrote: I'm seeking your wise advice on proper file paths (relative or absolute) for the various LDraw tools, and why they don't seem to behave the same between themselves.
I would recommend fully separating libraries and user content.
For example I use these items in my (ldcad) search path:
d:\LDraw\complete-2504.zip
d:\LDraw\ldrawunf.zip
d:\LDraw\projects\
You could optionally unzip the zips into their own subfolders.
This assumes the used tools differentiate between normal and library locations.
If not you will probably need to merge the two zip contents like so:
d:\LDraw\library\p (from complete.zip)
d:\LDraw\library\parts (from complete.zip)
d:\LDraw\library\unofficial\p (from ldrawunf.zip)
d:\LDraw\library\unofficial\parts (from ldrawunf.zip)
d:\LDraw\projects\
ps: LDCad will still (also) look in the unofficial subfolders of library locations/zips, but personally I don't use that much.
note: also using locations which are sub locations of libraries might crash LDCad
, Beta 2 will warn about that and remove the offending location from the list.