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Re: MLCad wishlist
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lugnet.cad.mlcad
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Fri, 10 Dec 1999 02:10:40 GMT
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lpieniazek@novera*spamless*.com
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Steve Bliss wrote:
> > 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.
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> Sounds like inlining so far.
OK, so how do I do it? when I press the inline button in LDAO with a
model selected, I get a textbox with my file in it but I don't see any
new file written, or any changes to the old file. So what am I doing
wrong.
Again, what I want to do is take an MPD and UN-mpd it. I want every .dat
file contained in that mpd to go away. I want the parts called out in
that dat file to be used inline, in the place where the subfile was
called out, translated to the correct orientation and location, and
translated to the color that they were invoked at (if they were color
16). And I want that to happen everytime any dat file was used. How do I
do that? So what I end up with is a dat file that has NO invocations of
other dat files in it unless those dat files were not already in the mpd
I started with.
Doesn't have to be from within MLCad, it can be from any tool, I am not
picky.
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> > 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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> Yep. Inlining=macro expansion (to the limits of my understanding of macro
> expansion).
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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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> Ah! I haven't poked around much in the reports area. After all, "they're just
> reports."[1] I'll have to look at that.
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| In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Larry Pieniazek wrote: [How do I convert an MPD model to a single-file DAT model?] There are two steps to this operation: first you've got to split your MPD, converting the single MPD to several DATs. Then you've got to inline (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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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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