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Re: MLCad wishlist
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lugnet.cad.mlcad
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Mon, 29 Nov 1999 21:57:04 GMT
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lpieniazek@novera+stopspam+.com
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Steve Bliss wrote:
> > Right. but for doing instructions and inventories, I want to be able to
> > "unsubmodel" stuff, and I haven't yet figured out how to do it. Inlining
> > (which LDAO can do for you) isn't quite what I want. I want macro
> > expansion, so to speak, rather than just inlining... Basically take a
> > model with submodels and turn the whole thing into one big file. No
> > submodels, repeated parts, etc... the whole 9 yards.
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> I'm not seeing the difference between inlining and macro expansion...
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> Also, how can you simultaneously avoid submodels *and* repeated parts? The
> solution to having submodels is to repeat parts, and the solution to avoid
> repeated parts is to use submodels? So I must be missing something...
maybe I'm confusing myself. at different times I have different needs.
During model design it is handy to have many subfiles as you can segment
your work.
When I am all done with a model, I'd like to take the MPD and create a
model file from it that has every part explicitly named off in it. No
sub models, nothing. THAT is the file I want to use for a parts list.
The way that MLCad currently does parts lists is not what I want. The
submodels get their own separate lists. So if I can generate a new model
that has all the parts in the main model, that would be good. Is that
what inlining does? I didn't think that was what I was getting.
I need the parts list so I can actually make up piles of parts and have
some reasonable confidence that when I mail someone that pile of parts
and the instructions, they can build what I thought they could build
with no missing (and no extra, my profit margin needs to be protected!!)
parts.
Can we talk Michael into hanging out here???
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) I agree big time here! I really want that ability as well. It should be able to combine the subfiles with the main dat file and tally up the total parts list without having to change the file from an MPD to a DAT. (...) Maybe he has to be like (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
| | | Re: MLCad wishlist
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| (...) How long have you been a consultant? "maybe I'm confusing myself" sounds suspiciously like a polite way of saying, "you've got it wrong." ;) (...) I'm not even going to go there. (...) Right. (...) Sounds like inlining so far. (...) Yep. (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| (...) Right now (MLCAD 1.5), you can right-click a view, and change *that window* to one of the standard views. But you can't add new view-definitions, like "upside down" or "right-front-below" (aka, pit-crew view angle). LDAO allows these types of (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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