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| | | How does one generate a complete list of parts (actual Lego elements) for a model that includes sub-assemblies in other files? MLCad just reports the sub-assemblies as a single "part". My model is complex enough that just pasting together copies of (...) (20 years ago, 18-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: Complete/recursive parts listings? —Dan Boger
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| | | | | (...) If you upload it to "Build this DAT" on Peeron, you should be able to get most of the parts there, if not all: (URL) Dan Boger dan@peeron.com (20 years ago, 18-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | Re: Complete/recursive parts listings? —Steve Demlow
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| | | | | | (...) Thanks for the reply, Dan. The problem I see is that my sub-assemblies are in 12+ separate files (file A uses 10 copies of B, B uses a copy of C and 4 of D, etc.). Re: the web interface you reference, it's not clear to me if/how it can support (...) (20 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Complete/recursive parts listings? —Allister McLaren
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| | | | | | (...) Would putting them into a single .mpd file help. There are (URL) programs> that automatically create .mpds from files such as you describe. I'm not sure how peeron counts the parts though. I would hope that it accounts for all ten instances of (...) (20 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Complete/recursive parts listings? —Steve Demlow
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| | | | | | (...) I tried this; unfortunately the Peeron interface flat-out says it doesn't handle mpds, and it doesn't. It found a total of four parts in the file. Thanks for the suggestion though! It is a useful utility apart from this problem. Steve (20 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Complete/recursive parts listings? —Dan Boger
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| | | | | | | (...) Hmmm... There's two problems here. First, I forgot to update the form to show that it DOES support MPDs now. At least, as far as I can test it does work. Can you send me the MPD that it fails on, so I can figure out where the problem lies? (...) (20 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Complete/recursive parts listings? —Dan Boger
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| | | | | | (...) I think I got the MPD bugs fixed - try again, if you can get a chance? Better yet, compare it to the results from Travis' utility? Thanks! Dan (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: Complete/recursive parts listings? —Orion Pobursky
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| | | | (...) Your problem is easily solved: - Make a MPD of your model using MPDWorkshop (Listed in the Software downloads section of LDraw.org) - Open the newly created MPD in in MLCad 3.1 or higher - Go to the Extras menu and choose Reports->Parts - (...) (20 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: Complete/recursive parts listings? —Steve Demlow
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| | | | (...) This gets me closer to the desired result, but it only lists the parts in each sub-assembly. It does not multiply the parts by the number of times the sub-assembly is referenced, so it still doesn't produce a complete list of parts. I also (...) (20 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: Complete/recursive parts listings? —Travis Cobbs
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| | | | (...) I just whipped up a program real quick (like half hour quick) that flattens a model. You can download it here: (URL) To use it, unzip it, go to a command prompt, and type LDFlatten <filename.ext>, where <filename.ext> is the filename of your (...) (20 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Complete/recursive parts listings? —Steve Demlow
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| | | | (...) This worked great. The resulting part counts correlated with some I'd calculated by hand. The only minor snit I observed was that comment lines show up as "(null)", but those were easy enough to strip out. Thanks, Travis, I really appreciate (...) (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Complete/recursive parts listings? —Travis Cobbs
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| | | | (...) Glad to hear it (mostly) worked. If you download it again, you'll get an updated version, and it should solve the "(null)" problem for comments. The comments will now be output to the "-flat" file. --Travis (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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