756.dat - Last man standing

[Willy Tschager]

Folks,

we have only one NON-CA part left:

http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cgi?s=756

with a community effort we could get rid off the whole CA/Non-CA splitting of the library once for all!

w.

[Chris Dee]

Please.

[Santeri Piippo]

I don't really get this, what's holding it back is a missing shortcut? From the looks of it, it's not that easy to model and as the last non-CA part around, it'd be important to get that file certified.

Would it be a good idea to just take care of the shortcut later? I don't think it's hold-worthy.

[Willy Tschager]

Also from my point of view I do not understand why this part is hold voted. The 73590x.dat doesn't even make use of it. I use the 756.dat for LSynth:

http://www.holly-wood.it/files/lsynth/ex...thesis.zip

and since Chris has rewritten it for CA compliance I would just certify if the geometry is okay. I do not need any example instead of the help lines or something like this. This can be added at a later time. For the moment I just wanna get rid off the NON-CA library. Afterwards anyone may upload the thing again and even if stays there for eternity 'til a good soul has the grace to substitute the help line with an example it won't bug me any more.

w.

[Chris Dee]

The complete hose without ends is 751.dat, but it looks like the segmentation to allow flexibility was only partly implemented, as that file was never updated to use the 754/755/756 pseudo-parts. The complete assemblies with ends are in the official library as 73590a/73590b.

I am relieved to see that this mess pre-dates my involvement as Admin.

It would be good to sort it out.

[Steffen]

I tried to finally solve the 756.dat TODOs as follows:

- removed !HELP section from 756.dat as already 73590a.dat, 73590b.dat show how to do it
- updated 754.dat based on 756.dat
- updated 751.dat using the modified 754.dat and 756.dat

I sent 754.dat and 751.dat to Chris.
After that, I suggest to release 751.dat + 754.dat + 756.dat together


future improvements should
- BFC and geometry correct 752.dat
- BFC 73590a.dat and 73590b.dat