Groups aren't the same as MPD files, in MPD changing a submodel changes all instances of it in the other files while groups are independent from each other. Plus I don't keep enough information to rebuild the MPD file correctly.
By extensions I mean META. I need to look into reusing existing ones if they make sense but for my current tests I just created custom commands for everything I needed. I think we had a conversation a few months ago about piece names and someone said they use it but single piece groups sounds like an alternative that would let me get rid of the names. I'll document the extensions once I'm finished with them. On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Sylvain L. Sauvage < [email protected]> wrote: > Le mardi 2 septembre 2014, 07:58:53 Leonardo Zide a écrit : > > It's always good to try to simplify things for the users so > > I'm starting to think that the best thing to do is to just > > create a bunch of custom extensions and use the LDraw format > > instead. > > Ok. There already are LDraw extensions out there (extensions > and META). > > Question: may you use them if they apply? and should you? > (Ex.: MPD format for groups?) > > > It wouldn't be too bad if it wasn't for the piece > > names but they really add a lot of spam to the models so I'm > > rethinking if they are really needed or maybe if it's ok to > > not save them if they were auto-generated. > > Who really does use them? > And if they are really needed, wouldn’t allowing one-piece > groups be a simple replacement to name a lone piece? > (That would save memory space too.) > > > Which then brings the point of why have a JSON format at all, > > the idea was to have a text format but if I can just use > > LDraw there's not much reason to add this except for the rare > > cases where someone would want to write a script to change a > > file. > > Ok. LDR scripts are easy to make. Just use clear begin and end > markers for grouping ;o) > > -- > Sylvain Sauvage > > _______________________________________________ > Leocad mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.gerf.org/listinfo/leocad >
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