2- This is a known issue, it's on my list but I haven't gotten to it
yet. I'll take a look and if it's a simple change I'll fix it next.
It would be great also - I guess it's closely related - to allow proper
display of scaled parts, as they are often used, eg. with LSynth cables.
3a- Not sure I understand, do you mean the text area with each line in
the file?
I guess Milan means a window to show and edit LDraw "source file" at
text level. That would be indeed a welcome addition.
4- This was a bug with the recent changes, it's fixed now.
Good, that mildly bothered me too...
Philo
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:47 AM, Milan Vancura <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Thu 01-01-15 17:16:48, Leonardo Zide wrote:
> There's a new 'Model' menu where you can create new submodels and switch
> between them. Models will also be listed in a 'Models' category in the
> Parts List and can be added to the current model and moved as if they were
> a simple part.
Hello Leonardo,
submodels support is a useful improvement of leocad, thanks for that!
I have tested it with my MPD files and it works nicely. I found some
issues but
they are more general, not about MPD support only:
1. my compiler (gcc 4.7.2 on Debian Linux) cries because of your
syntax of '>>'
in nested templates; the attached patch solves the problem
2. It seems you try to convert the transformation matrix to a
combination of
translation and rotation. That's not always possible
(mathematically).
I have an example MPD file with one submodel used both in usual
and mirror
image - and the second one is placed incorrectly in leocad.
(I know this is not usual but no other CAD or renderer SW has
any problem
with this).
http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~milanek/LEGO/6743-alt2/6743-alt2.mpd
<http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/%7Emilanek/LEGO/6743-alt2/6743-alt2.mpd>
3. After MPD model is saved back to the disk, all comments from
original file
are lost - this is a major problem because, you know, "comments"
are used
for many important data in LDR/MPD format: ROTSTEP, LPUB
commands etc.
3a. That reminds me my feature request: can you show an editable
textarea with
the loaded model and sync it with View - like MLCAD or LPUB do?
I know it is not easy but it would be the killer feature for me and
probably for everybody who uses LPUB for making instructions.
So far I need
MLCAD (and Windows/Wine) for that :(
4. Showing the model as it is after Step 1 is confusing sometimes. I
believe
one wants to see the complete model after it is loaded. Can you
go to the
last step?
Thanks again for your work,
Milan
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