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Re: Summary of LPub4 Meta commands?
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lugnet.cad
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Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:37:25 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Jim DeVona wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Mike Walsh wrote:
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> > I have started playing with LPub4 and I am really impressed. What a huuuugggee
> > improvement over prior versions of LPub. I am playing with a model I have which
> > has about a dozen sub-models. By default, Lpub creates separate pages for each
> > submodel and I want to move them to callouts to decrease the number of pages and
> > because in most cases, the sub models are 2-3 steps involving half a dozen
> > elements.
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> Hi, Mike.
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> To make a callout, right-click the background of a submodel page and select
> "Convert to Callout". To do the reverse, right-click a callout and select
> "Unpack Callout".
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> The corresponding meta commands are !LPUB CALLOUT BEGIN and !LPUB CALLOUT END,
> which are inserted before and after the type 1 line referring to the submodel.
> For instance:
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> 0 !LPUB CALLOUT BEGIN
> 1 0 -50 30 60 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 Submodel.ldr
> 0 !LPUB CALLOUT END
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> Jim
Well this is just slicker than snot! It didn't even occur to me to use the
right mouse button. After playing with it a bit it looks like I need to
reorganize my model to achieve what I want.
I still couldn't figure out to to make one callout for a sub model which is used
4 times and add "x4" to the callout. Is that possible?
Thanks,
Mike
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| (...) It is. LPub should do so automatically when you create a callout of a submodel used multiple times in one step. The callout begin/end meta commands surround both references. For example: 0 !LPUB CALLOUT BEGIN 1 71 30 -70 -50 0.66913 -0.743145 (...) (16 years ago, 29-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Summary of LPub4 Meta commands?
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| (...) Hi, Mike. To make a callout, right-click the background of a submodel page and select "Convert to Callout". To do the reverse, right-click a callout and select "Unpack Callout". The corresponding meta commands are !LPUB CALLOUT BEGIN and !LPUB (...) (16 years ago, 29-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad)
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