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Re: LPub 4.0.0.3 available for test
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lugnet.cad
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Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:35:52 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Jetro de Chateau wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> > You can only add a BOM on a cover page. For example:
> >
> > 1. Go to the last page of your instructions.
> > 2. Use the edit menu's "Add Cover Page" menu item in the main toolbar.
> > 3. Go to the next page (the newly added cover page)
> > 4. Use the edit menu's "Add Bill of Materials" menu item in the main toolbar.
> > 5. Click the BOM to get the thumb in the middle of the bottom of the BOM.
> > 6. Click and drag the thumb to make the BOM the same aspect ratio as the page
> > (it looks nicer that way).
> > 7. If the BOM does not fit on the page, use the "Configuration->Bill of
> > Materials Setup" menu item in the main toolbar. Use the "Contents" tab to
> > display the scale control.
> > 8. Edit the scale control to reduce the size of the parts displayed in the BOM.
> > 9. Use the font controls to reduce the size of the instance counts and
> > annotations.
> > a) change them in the GUI
> > b) after you click OK, the fonts will look huge (LPub bug alert!)
> > c) edit the font meta commands to change the size (probably 33) to something
> > like 8 or 9. Don't forget you have undo.
> >
> > Step 9 is the tricky part. I've got to work on that.
> >
> > Kevin
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> First up, thanks for the great app and te detailed explanations. I have another
> BOM related question: I have a BOM that does not fit on a single page, but the
> main reason is that the NXT and other large elements (e.g. motors ) appear at
> the end of the BOM and take up the same width as a single technic pin.
> - Is there a way to selectively reduce the size of specific elements?
Yes. In preferences you can choose an orientation file. The orientation file
is an LDraw file. If you have a part that you want oriented differently than
the default, you can put it into the orientation file (or make up your own and
use that) and orient it whatever way you want. You can also edit the "add part"
line in the file, and change the rotation/scaling array to change the size of
the part.
LPub2 had one file for orientation and one for scaling, but Philo and I realized
we really only need one.
> - Can I force a part to appear firt in the BOM (or any PLI for that matter?
No. You have no control over the order.
> - Can I hide a specific part from the pli?
Yes, but you have to manually add the meta commands. I think they are this :^)
0 !LPUB PLI BEGIN IGN
1 this is my part I want to ignore
0 !LPUB PLI END
"0 !LPUB PLI" applies to both PLIs and BOMs. There is another one that only
applies to BOM.
0 !LPUB BOM BEGIN IGN
0 !LPUB END
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> Jetro
Kevin
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