(2021-08-12, 18:21)Roland Melkert Wrote: I've uploaded the part I already done, as it might be somewhat helpful.
http://www.melkert.net/LDCad/docs/scriptAPI2

Don't mind the 150 or so "todo's" 

Please note there are some Alpha 2 things (input/control/etc) in there not available in 1.6/alpha1

(2021-08-18, 14:09)Milan Vančura Wrote: The order of pasted lines in src window (bug or feature?)

I found that if more lines are selected and copied in src window their order after pasting them is as they were marked, not as their "parents" are in. This gives more possible actions if you know about this but it can be very surprising if you don't Is this intentional?

(2021-08-18, 14:09)Milan Vančura Wrote: In nested mode, Path point can be duplicated only if just one is selected

(2021-08-19, 12:47)Willy Tschager Wrote: You might set the following on the wishlist (also for 2.0):

A "H" (something like the "unOff") in the parts bin indicates that the part has a !HELP line. A click on the "H" will show that !HELP line content.

w.

(2021-11-10, 19:16)N. W. Perry Wrote: Not a new issue, but it appears that the part count for the model correctly excludes any part refs that are duplicated due to buffer exchange. However, the parts within a submodel that is duplicated are not excluded (so they are double-counted and the final part count is too high).

(2021-11-10, 20:04)Roland Melkert Wrote: You mean it goes wrong when a submodel also uses buffer exchange or the whole (non exchange) model is counted?

Quote:Could you send me the problem file?

(2021-11-11, 1:56)N. W. Perry Wrote: I meant the second, but it may actually be both in this case.

(2021-11-11, 21:48)Roland Melkert Wrote: I think I fixed it, how's this:


It's still 12 off but that's because of the universal joints.

I'm thinking about introducing a shadow meta to exclude certain parts from counts (e.g. the joint ends, so it only counts the joiners using an alternative part).

(2021-12-10, 16:11)Orion Pobursky Wrote: While Roland is certainly free to do whatever he wants, I'd much rather see Stud.io change use the official METAs for this purpose. Given Bricklink's past track record in cooperating with other community projects, I'm not gonna hold my breath for that to happen though.

(2021-07-16, 23:00)Roland Melkert Wrote: </snip>

All feedback/bug reports are welcome.

(2022-02-08, 6:25)David Manley Wrote: I am experiencing what appears to be a bug with not being able to zoom in using the '+' key. The '+' key on my numeric keypad will zoom in and the '-' key on my numeric keypad and non-numeric (i.e. normal) keypad zoom out but the '+ on my non-numeric keypad does not zoom the camera in.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

Regards.

David

(2022-02-08, 6:25)David Manley Wrote: The '+' key on my numeric keypad will zoom in and the '-' key on my numeric keypad and non-numeric (i.e. normal) keypad zoom out but the '+ on my non-numeric keypad does not zoom the camera in.

(2022-02-08, 14:02)N. W. Perry Wrote: Actually, yes, now that you mention it. I recently bought a Bluetooth keyboard (with numpad) because the built-in keyboard in my laptop (without numpad) stopped working. When I did that, I started to get behavior like you describe.

(2022-02-08, 20:01)Roland Melkert Wrote: This is probably because it samples shift+'+' instead of just '+'.

You can fix it by changing the key assignment for zoom to shift+'+'.

I'll have to look into how to detect this, but it is low on my todo list.

(2022-02-08, 23:27)N. W. Perry Wrote: I had a similar problem with, I believe, the \ key, which is also duplicated on the numpad. For whatever reason, the built-in keyboard recognizes those keys as if they come from the non-existent numpad, but the external keyboard does not.

(2022-02-09, 0:17)Roland Melkert Wrote: You mean '/' which is on the keypad, and has a 'non shift' key on most keyboards.

It's together with '?' on mine, so a hot key using '?' wouldn't work as it will cause as SHIFT+'?' for me.

'\' is not on my numpad, it's only together with '|' above the enter key on my keyboard. So in my situation '|' won't work only SHIFT+'|'.

(2022-02-08, 20:01)Roland Melkert Wrote: This is probably because it samples shift+'+' instead of just '+'.

You can fix it by changing the key assignment for zoom to shift+'+'.

I'll have to look into how to detect this, but it is low on my todo list.

(2022-02-09, 0:17)Roland Melkert Wrote: You mean '/' which is on the keypad, and has a 'non shift' key on most keyboards.

It's together with '?' on mine, so a hot key using '?' wouldn't work as it will cause as SHIFT+'?' for me.

'\' is not on my numpad, it's only together with '|' above the enter key on my keyboard. So in my situation '|' won't work only SHIFT+'|'.

(2022-02-11, 14:57)N. W. Perry Wrote: I've looked into this a little more, and it turns out that for me, it's not '+' that's the problem, it's '='. I cannot assign that key to a hotkey combination for some reason. If I assign SHIFT+'+' (which is really SHIFT+'='), then the main pad + key works. If I assign just '+', then the number pad + key works. But if I press the Sample button and hit = (without SHIFT), nothing happens. I don't happen to need this combo myself, but it is common to use = without SHIFT as a zoom in shortcut.

(2022-02-11, 14:57)N. W. Perry Wrote: My issue with '/' turns out to be something else altogether: I was assigning this to collapse nodes in the Source window (this didn't previously have a hotkey assignment), and I didn't realize that to collapse the current node, you must first re-select that line, even if it's already selected. That may be by design, although it feels like a bug.

(2022-02-17, 18:30)N. W. Perry Wrote: I can't remember if I've mentioned this before, but have you ever considered a way to view (if not also edit) the unaltered source of a file? This could be either as a "verbose" option for the source window, or maybe as a separate console window.

Right now I have to use an external editor, and there's no way to "poll" between the two programs. Also, the standard text editor on the Mac does not have a "reload" command (which is its own fault, of course), so I have to manually close and re-open the text file to see changes made in LDCad.

The types of source I most often need to see are a) group information, and b) exact dimensions of generated flexible parts, both of which I know have come up as possible features on their own. But it's also helpful sometimes to be able to quickly find something in an MPD file by using a text search, for example.

(2022-03-03, 18:18)N. W. Perry Wrote: Minor typo in the hotkey config file:

Code:

edtiSes_selRemoveRedir=

Probably only affects human readability…

(2022-03-03, 23:03)Magnus Forsberg Wrote: edti  should maybe be  edit ?

(2022-03-03, 23:34)Roland Melkert Wrote: Didn't even noticed that

I will fix that but it would revert to the default binding for anyone who ever changed it.

But I doubt that has been done often.

(2022-03-04, 3:44)N. W. Perry Wrote: I realized you can learn a lot about LDCad's capabilities by going through the possible hotkey commands…

(2022-03-04, 19:49)Roland Melkert Wrote: The hotkey dialog lists the same items, should be more readable

(2021-12-10, 20:21)Roland Melkert Wrote: I agree with Orion on this.

I'm not saying I will never support it, but it is very low on my to do list.

Technically speaking their LDraw export should convert those meta's into TEXMAP ones.

Especially since their internal format is already LDraw (the thing I dislike the most of studio is the fact most of its users don't even know it's secretly LDraw to begin with).

(2021-07-16, 23:00)Roland Melkert Wrote: Hello all,

I finally picked up working on LDCad 1.7 this week.

The first 1.7 test version is available at
http://www.melkert.net/LDCad/nextVer



Please note this is a unfinished potentially unstable version. DO NOT copy it over your existing installation.

New is:

!DATA support
It is fully integrated into the normal way of working, but it might need some additional tweaks based on feedback.

Collada export
This was intended as a blender export, but as I discovered glTF somewhere in the middle it is unfinished and might be removed again later. Unless someone has a good reason to support both glTF and collada.

glTF2 export
This format seems to be the better choice for a blender export workflow.
It is much more complete then the collada export, but still needs alot of work.
I'm very much looking for someone who wants to help me optimize the output for blender import.
It includes texture information, but for some reason blender doesn't use it. I'm still looking into that so if anyone knows more please let me know.


Besides the big features there are numerous tweaks and bug fixes, some of which I forgot to keep track of.

All feedback/bug reports are welcome.

(2022-03-10, 2:02)Cam's Bricks Wrote: I believe that Lasse D's Sticker Builder and Pattern folder work with the LDraw standard.
https://brickhub.org/i/apps/sticker_builder.htm
https://brickhub.org/i/apps/pf.htm

Is that correct? I dont have a windows computer to test on currently.

(2022-03-10, 2:13)Cam's Bricks Wrote: Forgive my ignorance, but is it not possible to install the linux version on mac? I see some threads about using wine and will look into those soon but just had a high level thought about implementation and thought I would ask.

• There are 10 options in the copy/paste dialog but I only found 9 in the config file. The missing one appears to be "copyStripNonVis" (although this does appear to work in the GUI…?).
  

• In edit placement control group: "Negative 54 degree rotation around Z-axis" (all the others correctly say "45 degree").
  

• In all the editing pin groups, "Negative movement on the current dead plane axis" seems to always be in the wrong subgroup (Center instead of Movement).
  
• I'd like to be able to assign a hotkey to the apostrophe '  but it doesn't recognize it (cmd+' is standard for bringing up a prefs menu).
  

• When dragging a bezier handle, could we maybe shift+drag to simultaneously change the following/preceding handle also? This would allow symmetrical reshaping. (Idea stolen from Inkscape.)
  

• It would be very handy to have a 1-click rotation to that special value of 53.1301/36.8699 degrees (the 0.6 0.8 matrix), which is so central to Technic building. A grid stepping in this amount would be interesting, but I know these should really add up to 360, so maybe this is macro territory? Or maybe the manual rotation dialog could have radio buttons with these and certain other special angles (or even user-defined "favorite" angles)? <- I think the "favorites" idea is my favorite so far.
  

• This is very, very tiny…but maybe also trivial to fix. When opening the header dialog and switching to the "tags" tab, there is consistently a delay of 2-3 seconds while, I assume, the category and keywords lists are loaded. Maybe these lists should be loaded only when/if they are opened? because 99 times out of 100, I only go to that tab to set the file type (model, part, unofficial etc.) and don't need those drop-down lists at all.
  
  On the other hand, for the same reason, maybe the file type meta should be moved to the main page of the header dialog, because its official placement is in the main part of the header? Better still, could it be possible to set a default for the file type?
  

• If a ROTSTEP meta appears at the end of a file, could there be an option for LDCad not to add an extra step number? That way, if the last step of a model has a rotation (or cancels a previous rotation), we can use the ROTSTEP function to display it correctly without having an extra blank step at the end of the model.

(2022-03-19, 18:12)N. W. Perry Wrote: hen dragging a bezier handle, could we maybe shift+drag to simultaneously change the following/preceding handle also? This would allow symmetrical reshaping. (Idea stolen from Inkscape.)

(2022-03-19, 18:12)N. W. Perry Wrote: It would be very handy to have a 1-click rotation to that special value of 53.1301/36.8699 degrees (the 0.6 0.8 matrix), which is so central to Technic building. A grid stepping in this amount would be interesting, but I know these should really add up to 360, so maybe this is macro territory? Or maybe the manual rotation dialog could have radio buttons with these and certain other special angles (or even user-defined "favorite" angles)? <- [i]I think the "favorites" idea is my favorite so far.

(2022-03-19, 18:12)N. W. Perry Wrote: This is very, very tiny…but maybe also trivial to fix. When opening the header dialog and switching to the "tags" tab, there is consistently a delay of 2-3 seconds while, I assume, the category and keywords lists are loaded. Maybe these lists should be loaded only when/if they are opened? because 99 times out of 100, I only go to that tab to set the file type (model, part, unofficial etc.) and don't need those drop-down lists at all.

(2022-03-19, 18:12)N. W. Perry Wrote: If a ROTSTEP meta appears at the end of a file, could there be an option for LDCad not to add an extra step number? That way, if the last step of a model has a rotation (or cancels a previous rotation), we can use the ROTSTEP function to display it correctly without having an extra blank step at the end of the model.[/list]

(2022-03-19, 18:12)N. W. Perry Wrote: If this is the case, I wonder if it would be possible (either as a user-configurable setting, or perhaps as an option in file cleanup) to comment out the type 1 lines between the BUILD_MOD BEGIN and BUILD_MOD END_MOD tags—in other words, the parts that exist in their temporary state? That way, the file that LDCad saves would contain no duplicate parts nor any helper parts, and thus be immediately viewable in LDView, Stud.io, etc. At the same time, LDCad would still display these commented lines during its own editing sessions.

(2022-03-19, 18:12)N. W. Perry Wrote: In fact, at the risk of wishful thinking, this sounds simple enough, and fixes such a long-standing problem, that maybe BUILD_MOD might be able to appear in the nearer future than other LPub metas…? (And it might even be possible to do with the existing BUFEXCHG commands, too…)

(2022-03-19, 20:24)Roland Melkert Wrote: Favorite angles could be an interesting feature. It could be done with macro's too tough as you can assign hotkeys to macro's.

(2022-03-19, 20:24)Roland Melkert Wrote: I'll have to check but I'm fairly sure (some of) those lists are already loaded on demand. The issue is mainly caused by wxWidgets extremely slow list updates (even when you suppress screen updates), which might be addressed in one of their later builds.

(2022-03-19, 20:24)Roland Melkert Wrote: This is mostly a LDraw format problem as the step meta indicates the END of a step so there are always (step meta count + 1) steps in a model.
The step must be counted or you wouldn't be able to navigate (back) to the last step.
Could hide it in view mode though, but not sure if that's really worth all the hassle.

(2022-03-19, 20:24)Roland Melkert Wrote: There is a macro which does something very similar with the MLCad HIDE meta, maybe you can adapt that?

(2022-03-19, 20:24)Roland Melkert Wrote: That said the new LPub build mod meta are very interesting so I might support them in 1.7 beta 1/2 depending on how hard they are to implement.

(2022-03-19, 20:24)Roland Melkert Wrote: That said the new LPub build mod meta are very interesting so I might support them in 1.7 beta 1/2 depending on how hard they are to implement.

(2022-03-20, 15:35)Jaco van der Molen Wrote: The only downfall for that is that the develoment of LPub3D has again came to a stop some time ago.
I am uncertain of Trevor is still developing since I have lost contact with him too. I also have no idea if he reads the forums or comments in his Github page for LPub3D :-(

Does anyone have an idea where Trevor is and has contact with him?

(2022-03-21, 1:08)N. W. Perry Wrote: His most recent post here was a year and some days ago, and the most recent updates to LPub3D appear to have been the October before that (2020).

(2022-03-21, 12:28)Jaco van der Molen Wrote: Indeed. I was helping him test the buildmod feature, but suddenly all went silence.
It was (is) a very promising feature and we got things to work quite nice.
Still a few bugs here and there though.

I have tried to contact him, but he is not responding to e-mail, PM or Github messages.
I sincerly hope he is allright.

(2022-03-24, 4:22)N. W. Perry Wrote: This looks like a bug specific to 1.7: The config file is set to 8 decimal places on the clipboard, but I'm consistently getting only 5 when copying values from selection info. I definitely got more decimal places in 1.6d.

(2022-03-24, 18:36)Roland Melkert Wrote: The setting is only for ldraw coordinates but I suppose it is logical to also use it for selection information.

(2022-02-11, 18:56)Roland Melkert Wrote: This is indeed a bug.

(2022-04-10, 19:22)Roland Melkert Wrote: Finally got around to fixing this bug, but it turns out not to be a bug

It expand/collapses the current 'hot' node (meaning the one under the mouse cursor) not the selected one.

I did change the hint to reflect this though.

(2022-04-10, 22:21)N. W. Perry Wrote: Here's another thing: it seems like nag message states are not being retained for warnings about shadow editing. I know there are 2 or 3 different messages, but I feel like I've checked "don't show again" on all of them repeatedly, yet they keep appearing.