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Re: LDraw's Autostep does not work in Lpub?
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lugnet.cad.ray
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Mon, 21 Mar 2005 02:40:59 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.ray, Mitchell Lichtenberg wrote:
> If I understand correctly, LDraw's Autostep is set as the default and requires
> no other changes (if you will accept a new step after adding each new part).
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> However, I cannot get LPub to render anything but the complete assembly from a
> model designed with autostep. To test this I built a six item structure. I
> used autostep for the first three pieces, then used Add>step between adding each
> of the last three pieces. Lpub rendered the last three steps as instruction
> images, but treated the first three as a total assembly.
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> Is this the way LDraw works (i.e. Autostep doesn't function with outside
> programs?) Or is LPub supposed to work with only a manual step? Or have I
> missed a checkbox somewhere, or what? The LPub version is 2.1.0.6
Hi Mitchell,
LPub has no support for autostep. I didn't even know about it until you
mentioned it. LPub supports STEP and ROTSTEP meta commands, but not autostep.
If you read the LPub help file you wil find no mention of AUTOSTEP. Having made
a lot of building instructions, I would find little value in a mechanism for
automatically providing steps. Typically three to five parts per step make
sense. Intelligence is the best way to decide where steps should be placed.
Each of the LDraw compatible programs chooses which meta-commands they
support. Just because it is implemented in MLCad, does not mean that other
programs will support it. Most renderers do not support step, rotstep or buffer
exchange.
I did just create a new meta-command REMOVEGROUP, which will remove all the
parts of a named group from the model. I've got to test it but it should be
handy.
Kevin
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