[LSC] File Format Restrictions for Official Parts

[William Howard]

Updated again with the latest comments posted here

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Howard" <william at howard-family.fsworld.co.uk>
To: "LDraw Standards Committee" <lsc at ldraw.org>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: [LSC] File Format Restrictions for Official Parts



> Another version uploaded to the scratch pad.

>

> Still a work in progress, so feel free to rip it to bits

>

> W

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> ----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "William Howard" <william at howard-family.fsworld.co.uk>

> To: "LDraw Standards Committee" <lsc at ldraw.org>

> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 10:49 AM

> Subject: Re: [LSC] File Format Restrictions for Official Parts

>

>

>> Rats!  Look like I just "volunteered" to draft it.

>>

>> Suggestion.  We do a "work in progress" version that just covers 

>> restrictions on the file format spec for official parts, publish and 

>> adopt that (which gets the immediate requirment to publish the 

>> information taken out of the file format spec out of the way) and then do 

>> the full version.

>>

>> W

>>

>> ----- Original Message ----- 

>> From: "Philo" <philohome at free.fr>

>> To: "LDraw Standards Committee" <lsc at ldraw.org>

>> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 10:36 AM

>> Subject: Re: [LSC] File Format Restrictions for Official Parts

>>

>>

>>>I vote for it!

>>>

>>> Philo

>>>

>>> William Howard wrote:

>>>

>>>> Why not do both?  If the "Official Parts Format Specification" started 

>>>> with the LDraw File Format Spec as its "base", lists restrictions on it 

>>>> and then covers additional requirements for Official Parts we can have 

>>>> our cake and eat it!

>>>>

>>>> W

>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philo" <philohome at free.fr>

>>>> To: "LDraw Standards Committee" <lsc at ldraw.org>

>>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 10:19 AM

>>>> Subject: Re: [LSC] File Format Restrictions for Official Parts

>>>>

>>>>

>>>>> Agreed! But then we are not writing a "File Format Restrictions for 

>>>>> Official Parts" but an "Official Parts Format Specifications" - which 

>>>>> would be quite useful !!!

>>>>>

>>>>> Philo

>>>>>

>>>>> William Howard wrote:

>>>>>

>>>>>> Which also raises two of the "tribal knowledge" items that needs 

>>>>>> covering in the document

>>>>>>

>>>>>> 1) precision (is it 3dp for parts/primitives and 4 dp for hi-res 

>>>>>> primitives)

>>>>>> 2) trailing 0s on numbers (1.5 or 1.500)

>>>>>>

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