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Subject: 
Background color controls for constr and part list images
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Date: 
Thu, 3 Apr 2003 14:21:45 GMT
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Hi,
  I'm wanting to add support for different background colors for sub-models
(also fonts/styles/colors used in PLI and BOMs).

  LEGO's building instructions use a different background color for each
level of sub-model used, and it uses the same color for both part list
images and construction images.

  I can add this support to LPub, but it will *force* everyone to use the
same scheme (but not the same colors), and I envision that it will be part
of LPub's GUI

  Jake, in http://news.lugnet.com/cad/dev/?n=8606 you said this:

Ability to modify settings per sub-model: It would be terrific to be able
to change preferences per submodel in a model. Reason: I sometimes need to
have different view angles on certain sub-models and not on others. Or
perhaps I want to change the background color on one submodel to be a
different color than another submodel (for use with assembly submodels). Or
I want to be able to select an option to include a submodel's parts in the
main BOM or not (for times when an instruction has alternative models). Or
if you wanted to have a sub-BOM for a submodel (still calculated in the main
BOM, but broken out by submodel, not by step/submodel)

From this I extracted these requests:

  1 sub-model specific view angles.  You already have this with ROTSTEP, right?

  2 background color controls on a sub-model by sub-model basis, independent
of the sub-model level.  IMHO this means that you want meta-commands to set
these parameters.

  3 Alternative model BOM controls - Wouldn't alternative models be
implemented as different top level model files?

  4 submodel BOMs - I just implemented this as an option for either all
sub-models or none.

OK, back to the topic at hand. Number 2 is the one of interest.  Does
submodel depth specific controls for colors/styles (background colors, font
styles and colors) satisfy your desire for 2?

Kevin



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Background color controls for constr and part list images
 
"Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:HCruK9.11n6@lugnet.com... (...) sub-models (...) ... Something I would like to see (and forgive me if it has been mentioned before) is a way to merge the BOM for a submodel into the (...) (21 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
  Re: Background color controls for constr and part list images
 
(...) Wow... I was originally trying to get across a single basic concept using multiple examples, but I guess it did turn into several directions! (...) Sure, that could be a simple way to do this. I had mentioned it as part of this idea in case it (...) (21 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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