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Re: LPub whish list
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Wed, 8 Feb 2006 18:56:04 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Philippe Hurbain wrote:
> While creating building instructions for this project
> (http://news.lugnet.com/announce/moc/?n=3228), I had a few problems with LPub (I
> solved most of them with some image edition).
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> If/when Orion or someone else can add features to LPub, here is what I'd like...
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> - Multiple usage of the same sub-model are currently not supported. When LPub
> generates layouts, each instance receives its own BI but Lpub gives the same
> name to all instance files. So only the last instance can be seen, and the page
> numbering is wrong. This can be addressed by changing layout files naming to
> something like ###-submodel_name_xx.png where ### is the page layout page
> number. This would have the added benefit to have the all the files correctly
> sorted when browsing the entire project.
I'll have to test this to see what is going on.
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> - But of course the best solution would be to get only one set of instruction
> for each submodel type. A completed image of the sub-model to be built along
> with an instance count would make things clear
> (http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Philo/Misc/LpubWish/sub-model_image.png)
This would of course be optional because it is not always used. We get a half
dozen or more meta-commands for describing the placement of said image (he says
because LPub already has dramatically more meta-commands than any other
program).
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> - Possibility to add some text annotations to the part list or BOM
> (http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Philo/Misc/LpubWish/parts_per_step.png). This
> allows to add lenth information to cables and hoses. It could be implemented as
> an additionnal optionnal string argument to the LPUB PLI BEGIN SUB command.
Hmmm...... then we'll need placement description for that too?
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> - In multi-step per page mode, having the option to get a part list for each
> step instead as for each page. For large models, pages need to be big so you get
> many steps on the first pages to fill them. Finding and identifying parts is
> difficult with large PLI. For example here
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Philo/Misc/LpubWish/parts_per_step.png I had
> to add text to the step images to clearly identify tubes even though they were
> added at a different step.
Yup, I understand this request.
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> - In multi-step per page mode it would be nice to be able to control alignement
> of steps on different rows (columns). Here
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Philo/Misc/LpubWish/alignment.png I would have
> prefered to get all rows right-aligned.
Currently I assume center justification..... right and left make sense too.
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> - An interesting possibility would be able to zoom on a part of a big model in a
> callout, as I did here:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Philo/Misc/LpubWish/zoomed_callout.png. To do
> this, I used a smaller model callout and buffer exchanges to hide the big model.
> Workable, but I still miss the possibility to crop the image to some dimension
> to make the user understand that it's a partial view.
Well, at some point, manual user post processing needs to be the solution.
I'll add one to the list:
Allow a given step/multi-step to span two adjacent pages.
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> Anyway... many thanks to all the authors of the wonderful software pieces that
> were used during this project:
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> * LeoCAD for the main modelling.
> * MLCad with LSynth plug-in for the tubing.
> * MPDwizard for MPD generation and unofficial parts embedding.
> * LPub with LDGlite renderer for image synthesis and layout.
>
> Philo
Philo,
Do you own C++ Builder 6?
Kev
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| (...) I do understand your concern. But it would be a nice feature ;o) And in line with a lot of official LEGO BI. (...) Maybe the "LPUB [BOM|PLI] PART MARGINS x y" that already define the distance from annotation string for axle length would be (...) (21 years ago, 9-Feb-06, to lugnet.cad)
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