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Subject:	Re: Make Small BOMs
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad
Date:	Sun, 22 May 2005 20:19:36 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote: > In lugnet.cad, Timothy Gould wrote: > > 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> > > Very cool! Welcome to the fold. > > > > > 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. <snip> Here is pedmatic's BOM sorted by type with no subcolumns or subrows. http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/kclague/pedmatic-bi-ldglite/pedmatic_bom.png Here is pedmatic's BOM sorted by width and allowing subcolumns and subrows. http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/kclague/pedmatic-bi-ldglite/pedmatic_bom_0_00_parts.png The second one clearly has a higher part density. Kevin

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		Re: Make Small BOMs
(...) 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 (...) (20 years ago, 22-May-05, to lugnet.cad)

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