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Make Small BOMs
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lugnet.cad
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Sun, 22 May 2005 14:07:16 GMT
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Dear all,
I’ve decided to contribute my own small (no pun intended) contribution to
Lego(R) CAD tools. For those who like to play, not read, here is the link.
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/gouldt/makesmlbom/makesmlbom.html
Basically it is a little perl program called (imaginatively) makesmlbom.pl which
generates a smaller bill-of-materials from the LPub 2.3.07’s output. Since a
picture tells a thousand words, hear is what I mean.
LPub output
makesmlbom.pl output
Please let me know what you think, whether you think it is useful, what would
make it useful, when it crashes etc. I’ve also released the code (small as it is
- a theme here?) under the GPL although it is quite a mess, please feel free to
play around.
Tim
PS. This project started with me trying to work out an algorithm for how to
efficiently fit rectangles into a larger rectangle (a sort of tiling problem)
and gre into the application from there.
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| (...) Very cool! Welcome to the fold. (...) When LPub is doing PLI's it sorts all the parts by width, and drops the widest part in the first column (bottom of the PLI). The width of this part defines the column width. From there it tries to add (...) (19 years ago, 22-May-05, to lugnet.cad)
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