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Re: MLCad wishlist
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lugnet.cad.mlcad
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Tue, 30 Nov 1999 01:07:21 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> Steve Bliss wrote:
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> > > 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...
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> 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.
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> 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.
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.
> 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.
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> 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.
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> Can we talk Michael into hanging out here???
Maybe he has to be like Lego. We know they lurk Lugnet, but never post.
Maybe he is just reading this and keeping quiet about it.
We want bulk ordering! (Sorry, wrong request)
Mike
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