(2016-10-17, 9:37)Philippe Hurbain Wrote: Attached file shows a "problem" I got with pneumatic LQ hose. When using dynamic placement (default of template), there is a step at the ends of straight section. This is solved either by limiting merging (but file size is a bit bigger, and some steps are still visible), or switching to static placement which definitely gives better result for the same size. Suggestions and insights?...

(edit): While fiddling with tubing in my model, I got a case where LDCad generated LDraw substitution code contains singular matrices references. Attached...

(edit2): singular matrices seems related to static placement + nearby waypoints with "overlapping" control handles. The same tube with dynamic placement looks bad but doesn't create singular matrices, getting control handle closer to their respective waypoint solves both problems.

(2016-10-17, 18:22)Roland Melkert Wrote: It does for me, all I did is place it in the templates/shortcut  folder (while LDCad is closed). then is listed in the templates/misc bin group (minifig lever in cell).

I tried with 1.5 and 1.6.

(2016-10-18, 19:15)Willy Tschager Wrote:

(2016-10-17, 18:22)Roland Melkert Wrote: It does for me, all I did is place it in the templates/shortcut  folder (while LDCad is closed). then is listed in the templates/misc bin group (minifig lever in cell).

I tried with 1.5 and 1.6.

Ain't working:

(2016-10-18, 19:38)Roland Melkert Wrote:

(2016-10-18, 19:15)Willy Tschager Wrote: Ain't working:

Which version are you using?

Are you using both 1.5 stable and 1.6?, if so be sure you placed the ldr in the templates folder of the version you want to use it in (alpha doesn't use appdata)

If it still won't work could you send me the (zipped) contents of %appdata%\LDCad\Logs

(2016-10-19, 10:18)Willy Tschager Wrote: Was using Alpha4 - however I copied 1.5 back to the prog folder: the template doesn't show up. Cannot provide a log. They are all dated July when I switched version.

(2016-10-27, 16:41)Michael Horvath Wrote: Can I use LDCad to animate a walk-through of Datsville, but within the engine itself instead of (the very slow) POV-Ray? Thanks.

(2016-10-27, 17:02)Roland Melkert Wrote: You can however use the normal 25fps combined with the OpenGL export for smooth animation.

(2016-10-27, 17:58)Michael Horvath Wrote:

(2016-10-27, 17:02)Roland Melkert Wrote: You can however use the normal 25fps combined with the OpenGL export for smooth animation.

I don't understand. What is this?

(2016-10-27, 18:19)Roland Melkert Wrote:

(2016-10-27, 17:58)Michael Horvath Wrote: I don't understand. What is this?

You can export any animation as a sequence of PNG files, when doing so it doesn't matter how slow the realtime renderings are to get e.g. a 25fps avi using a tool like avidemux.

(2016-11-12, 9:06)Merlijn Wissink Wrote: Another thing, I don't know if this has been brought up yet, but mirroring doesn't work very well with corner pieces like 2420.dat, 14719.dat, 2357.dat and 2639.dat.

EDIT: parts 30383.dat and 63868.dat also mirror incorrectly.
EDIT2: 30503.dat and 10247.dat also don't mirror correctly.

(2016-11-12, 9:01)Merlijn Wissink Wrote: Hey, I found a small annoyance in LDcad.
I got a new mouse a few days ago, the Logitech MX master. It has a scroll-wheel that has 2 modes, a clicking mode (like a normal scroll-wheel) and a free mode in which you can give it a push and it keeps turning for a while (it has no resistance). It's really nice and even after just a few days I love that feature.

However, LDCad doesn't play too nice with it. Well, it works, but not optimally. When I'm in the source-editor and give the scroll-wheel a good push, it scrolls super slow. Well, not slower than with a 'normal' mouse, but also not faster. It just goes up or down line by line, while I expected the lines to swoosh by. For comparison: when I give the mouse-wheel a hard swing in e.g. Excel, I'm at row 10000+ in mere seconds. The part bin has the same problem, although it works better, it scrolls a little faster than the source window.

I hope I explained it well, I know it may sound a little vague. I can make a little video of it if you'd like.

(2016-11-20, 7:26)Merlijn Wissink Wrote: So it becomes something like this (removed the subModel- part for this example:
1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 2, 20, 21, 23.......... I think you get the point.

(2016-11-20, 2:14)Roland Dahl Wrote: In the case of editing large models having a lot of submodels, and provided that the part bin "all models currently being edited" is active my computer slows downs pretty much. For example: the model doesn't rotate quick and soft any longer but rotation is rather very slow and stuttering.

(2016-11-20, 7:26)Merlijn Wissink Wrote: So it becomes something like this (removed the subModel- part for this example:
1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 2, 20, 21, 23.......... I think you get the point.

(2016-11-22, 19:49)Merlijn Wissink Wrote: I think I found a bug or something like that in LDcad 1.5 and LDcad 1.6 alpha 4.

(2016-11-22, 20:37)Roland Melkert Wrote:

(2016-11-22, 19:49)Merlijn Wissink Wrote: I think I found a bug or something like that in LDcad 1.5 and LDcad 1.6 alpha 4.

Part 1 is actually the way it should behave I think (it's been a long time since I setup the base viewing system   )

The reason it first picks top or bottom is because it initializes the 2d state based on the 3d view when first switched. After that it remembers the last 2d state for that plane.

You could also use shift+v if you want to enter a 2D view as closely possible to the current 3d view.

Part 2 definitely is a bug though, but  it doesn't crash for me. Are you keeping down the v key so it continuously switches 2d/3d ?

Edit: or are you on Linux?

(2016-12-01, 10:52)TestOne Wrote: Hi Roland, I recently tried to create a PBG file to build a set and expected the single parts count to decrease as soon as I used them, and to disappear from the list once I used all of them (and to reappear if one part got deleted from the model), but the counters remained the same for the entire process.
I remember that it has been discussed in the past (i.e. here: http://forums.ldraw.org/thread-15309-post-15678.html#pid15678), but I don't know if this feature has been discarded or if I'm missing some settings.

If it has not yet been implemented, I vote for this to be added in the next releases (since now there are at least a couple of tools to create part bins for LDCad).
Thank you in advance

(2016-12-11, 21:13)Roland Dahl Wrote: Please let me ask for 2 additional features, so far these are not already implemented:

Mirroring: By using the mirroring function un-mirrored parts "vanish", respectively get replaced by the mirrored parts. May it be possible to directly add the mirrored parts to the initial parts? Or even better: To let the user decide about "single-sided mirroring" and "double-sided mirroring".

Stepping: May it be possible to implement a feature like "hide or show selected steps"? So that it will quickly be possible to selectively show for example step 2, 5 and 9 and hide all others.

(2016-12-11, 21:54)Roland Melkert Wrote: ...  only useful when a custom selection center is set  otherwise most parts will overlap with their mirrored version. I never thought this would be a real issue though as you can also press ctrl+d or ins before using the mirroring 'x' hot key.

(2016-12-11, 21:54)Roland Melkert Wrote: You can however use the 'select menu' to select all in a certain step en then do a normal hide.

(2016-12-12, 9:27)Milan Vančura Wrote: First of all, I thank you much for so well working 1.5, it has helped me a lot in this hurry time; it's the editor which simply does the job well and I can work fast with. I started to think about a note "built with a help of LDCad" added to my builds labels at exhibitions

(2016-12-12, 9:27)Milan Vančura Wrote: The first difference to 1.5 I saw was that "+" hotkey no longer works in the partbin, "-" still works. After some testing I found what's the problem: on the US keyboard, "+" is a sign I can get only with Shift and new hotkey machinery is confused with that. Setting the hotkey to "Shift +" is a workaround but that would probably cause "+" on numeric keyboard stop working, if I had any. So there is no way to make them both working now, as it was in 1.5.

More about hotkeys:

* it does not warn me if hotkey is already assigned (and to what), it would be nice if a simple popup window appeared, with that warning and a choice what function I want to set this hotkey to (the old one or the new one)
* could you add "alt" to the list of modifiers?
* how can I assign a hotkey to (sub)menu? For example: Alt-F for "File" menu or Shift-Alt-S for View->Editing_views->Split (Yes, I want to hide menubar and have all menus accessible via hotkeys. I have really small screen on my laptop, especially vertically.)

(2016-12-12, 9:27)Milan Vančura Wrote: ROTSTEP editing is great feature! The button "Sample view" confused me at first, maybe "Current view" would be more understandable, but it works well in both ways: getting the view and setting it. This makes my life with LPub much easier, thanks!

(2016-12-12, 9:27)Milan Vančura Wrote: Group layers feature: technically, it works. And I remember I already needed something like this several times so I really support this idea. Unfortunately the current version is very hard to use and not intuitive. So the feature itself is great and works but, please, add new GUI for that. What about hiding all technical details about layers and simply provide a submenu with a list of currently defined groups, optionally with a name? That would be much easier to use!

(2016-12-12, 9:27)Milan Vančura Wrote: Unhide in the Source window: great feature, I like it. Unfortunately it's dangerous because the same hotkey is there for hiding and unhiding ("h") and I cannot even set them to different ones in the hotkey manager window. One of first things what happened during my testing was: I forgot I already have some hidden parts selected, their lines were out of the screen. Then I selected some visible parts and wanted to hide them. What was my surprise when another parts appeared instead!

(2016-12-12, 9:27)Milan Vančura Wrote: For more reasons I believe it would be really useful if there was some visible indicator "you have something selected even it might be invisible or hard to see" - something similar to "I" icon in the bottom-right corner? For example I had some hidden parts selected, forgot about that and double-clicked on some part in the partbin. Those hidden parts were silently replaced with that part and, of course, I found that minutes and minutes later when I unhide them - and it was too late for any undo.

(2016-12-12, 9:27)Milan Vančura Wrote: Mirroring feature: I did not test it much because it's probably more about missing parts metadata. What I can say is about GUI again: a selection of "X", "Y" or "Z" axis is a random shot, I really cannot remember which is which, it is not shown anywhere in GUI. If there was at least a color corresponding to the diagram of axes in the bottom-left corner, it would be easier. Better if it was shown "in place" instead of a separate popup window, something like grid is - another hotkeys for setting and showing the plane for mirroring.

(2016-12-12, 9:27)Milan Vančura Wrote: Region select: great feature! Really helpful, I needed that so many times... Is there a way how to do rectangle unselect, too? The part about 3D box is very hard to use for me, I'd need a way how to see that box and rotate the view at the same time.

Random thought: what about stopping the LMB function of turning the view? I slightly remember you had this as a long-term goal (if I'm corect), it confuses me a little and it's not good for anything, RMB is here for that.

(2016-12-12, 9:27)Milan Vančura Wrote: About scripting: one of my dreams is to make a script allowing user to select a rotation center of the part or group of parts to a specific snap point (resp. the axe of that snap object). So one can bend hinges, rotate 1xN plates on a stud, rotate Technic beams around axles etc. If you remember my video showing this. Would it be possible to work with snap points in scripts? And let the user to select it?

And maybe there would be a chance to add a function/script for making triangles. I know there is already a way how to do that with that helper you showed in one of your videos but it's too complicated and manual.

(2016-12-12, 21:46)Niklas Buchmann Wrote: There is one small thing I would like to see added in a future version:

I would like to be able to add 'tags' (keywords) to parts to be able to find them easier. This feature could make use of the shadow library to leave the existing files intact, but work in any other way similar to the 0! KEYWORDS that can be added to parts.

One example would be to add the tag 'cone' to the 98100 part (Brick 2x2 round sloped) to make it show up in the search results for cone without modifying the original file on disc.

(2016-12-14, 20:00)TestOne Wrote: I can't remember why you stated it wasn't possible in previous versions, but I hope it will be possible in v1.6 or maybe next release.

(2016-12-12, 19:48)Roland Melkert Wrote: I've been avoiding the alt key because it acts very different in Linux. It seems to be a system level key in some versions (focus to the program menu bar) I haven't found a way to suppress that behavior yet. Currently menus can not be assigned a hotkey but it shouldn't be too much of an hassle to add that, I'll put it on the beta 2 'nice to have' list.

(2016-12-12, 19:48)Roland Melkert Wrote: Layered groups are a bit experimental. I was planning to iron it out in Beta 2 by allowing users to name layers which will then replace the current layer 1 2 3 placeholders.

(2016-12-12, 19:48)Roland Melkert Wrote:

(2016-12-12, 9:27)Milan Vančura Wrote: Unhide in the Source window: great feature, I like it. Unfortunately it's dangerous because the same hotkey is there for hiding and unhiding ("h")...

Currently the 'h' in source window is more a visibility toggle which is indeed very confusing now you point that out. I'll make it a separate action with its own hotkey (maybe shift+h?)

(2016-12-12, 19:48)Roland Melkert Wrote: I could display the 'Selection contains invisible items' label as is done when e.g. a step meta is in the selection.

(2016-12-12, 9:27)Milan Vančura Wrote: Mirroring feature...

(2016-12-12, 19:48)Roland Melkert Wrote: X, Y, Z is shown as Red, Green, Blue lines in the compass and grid. This is somewhat of a standard I thought everybody knew that I'll see if I can render the same colors in the combo box.

(2016-12-12, 9:27)Milan Vančura Wrote: Region select

(2016-12-12, 19:48)Roland Melkert Wrote: The 3D part is the far clipping plane which can be moved by the scroll wheel. It should be visible by the background color overflowing part of the model. I did indeed plan to drop the left mouse button controls in faver of the region select but for some reason dropped it again, I think it had mainly to do with left mouse already being used to drag the selection.

(2016-12-12, 19:48)Roland Melkert Wrote: I do want to add your snap point rotation idea at some point, I'll see if it can be done without too much of an impact to existing code (beta stage and all).

(2016-12-18, 21:53)Milan Vančura Wrote: I may describe this for you. There are two different issues. The first one is that, in past, the Alt key was handled differently than Shift and Control on Linux. Even you might still find some articles about that on Internet, I believe all modern desktop libraries already solved that. For example, with wxWidgets it's a matter of a choice of events. The second issue may be that somebody might configure his/her window manager to use same hotkeys for some actions. That's same as with, for example, alt-tab on Windows. But Alt-[A-Z] are usually not used for that - because even other applications use the same hotkeys (Alt-F, Alt-E, Alt-V, Alt-H for menus: File, Edit, View, Help...). In the end, it's up to the user to configure hotkeys of both LDCad and his window manager to not have conflicts... I do not know about Windows but it's extremely easy on Linux.

(2016-12-18, 21:53)Milan Vančura Wrote:

(2016-12-12, 19:48)Roland Melkert Wrote: Layered groups are a bit experimental. I was planning to iron it out in Beta 2 by allowing users to name layers which will then replace the current layer 1 2 3 placeholders.

I though about a way how the user can have a better overview of defined groups and not needing think about group layers at all, to hide this logic in GUI. However, I must say I do not have a solution for this, it's just an idea. Or, better, a wish The reason is that it's very hard to remember which group is defined on which layer now. Or maybe we can keep this layer switching but add a submenu with a list of (optionally named) groups together with a layer number/name? Something like:

Code:

1. front left wheel    layer 1
2. front right wheel    layer 1
3. front axle with wheels    layer 2
...

(2016-12-18, 21:53)Milan Vančura Wrote:

(2016-12-12, 19:48)Roland Melkert Wrote: I could display the 'Selection contains invisible items' label as is done when e.g. a step meta is in the selection.

Yes, good idea. And I believe it would be even better if it is an icon, different for each of these two situations (set independently): "selection contains hidden parts" and "selection contains metadata lines". An icon takes much less space so they can be shown both if needed and still be on the right of "Step" indicator. And you can set up a "hover text" for them.

(2016-12-18, 21:53)Milan Vančura Wrote: And wouldn't be possible to show that plane directly in the Edit window, similarly to the grid or the far plane of the rectangle select? It would be much easier to understand, especially with local coordinates set ("o" key).

(2016-12-12, 9:27)Milan Vančura Wrote: What about that "rectangle unselect" feature? That would help if one takes too much or wants to combine that like "select this rectangle without that corner".

(2016-12-18, 21:53)Milan Vančura Wrote: I may try to create that script for triangles then. (And give it to everybody - if it works )