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Cary Clark / FAQ / CAD / inline

What does ‘inline’ mean, in the context of an LDraw data file?

From Steve Bliss: !

Inlining is the process of replacing a subfile reference with the contents of the subfile.

Like this:

b = 12*a a = c + 3

If you inlined a into b, you’d get:

b = 12*c + 36

Of course, it’s slightly more complicated in LDraw-world.

Inlining is good, because it allows you to design parts/models using several files, but only distribute a single LDraw file. Inlining is bad because each reference to a subfile must be replaced with the complete contents of the subfile, which can increase the file size by a large amount.

The only inlining tool that I know of is the inliner in LDraw Add-On.
http://members.home.com/steve.bliss/ldao/

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