(2022-05-14, 0:05)Roland Melkert Wrote: Hello all,

It took more time than planned (again) but I finally managed to finish LDCad 1.7 Alpha 2.

It has stacks of tweaks and a couple of stability bug fixes.

For this version I concentrated mostly on animation and scripting by introducing interactive animations.

The new example model includes such an animation.



Some of the new things:
- Interactive animations.
- Part count down in 'basic' groups (only for items with a set count property).
- Improved part texture handing (incl reloading if changed externally).
- !HELP indication in the part bin.
- More flexible grid rotation stepping.
- 2D view exports.
- Improved the glTF export.
- Many many small tweaks/extensions/changes/etc. See changeLog.txt for the full list.


This is an Alpha and not a Beta because I rewrote some of the low level code, namely: threading, string/number conversions and the pos/ori property dialog.

I would like these changes thoroughly tested before exposing new users to it.

So be sure to make backups of your work before changing them with this Alpha version.

The new version can be downloaded here:
http://www.melkert.net/LDCad/nextVer

(2022-05-20, 17:58)Sam Potter Wrote: is there a way to see the part "dat" source file, in ldcad?

(2022-05-20, 17:58)Sam Potter Wrote: is there a way to see the part "dat" source file, in ldcad?

also is there a to easy way to add a reference images for modeling? (beside generating a sticker with stickerGen) if not can you please add that ability.

(2022-05-24, 18:27)Johann Eisner Wrote: When exporting a step to OpenGL view, and there is a buffer exchange,
then all parts the are stored in the buffer aren't showing in the export picture.

(2022-05-25, 2:51)N. W. Perry Wrote: This might be a bug: when I export the "parts in model" bin from this model, it misses the two bricks in the last step. But if I move that whole step so that it isn't the last step, then the export includes all the parts in the model. (So it's not just missing, say, the last step in the model.)

(2022-05-25, 2:51)N. W. Perry Wrote: A second thing: I'm so thrilled to have part bin countdown now!  But I would like to have, at least as an option, parts with zero count still appear in the bin. Right now I can see parts if I haven't used them up, or have used too many. (Though I also appreciate the logic of having a part disappear from the bin when I've used it up.)

(2022-05-25, 18:09)N. W. Perry Wrote: Things that will trigger it are navigating into any set content part bin, but also opening a recent file or a file from disk. A new file will not trigger the crash.

(2022-05-29, 21:16)Roland Melkert Wrote: I was able to replicate it, it seems to be caused by items with a negative color number in the set pbg.

This might (also) be a ldraw cbr generator issue?

Shouldn't crash LDCad ether way though.

Disabling part count down will 'fix' it too.

(2022-06-01, 14:34)N. W. Perry Wrote: 1) I'm getting a consistent misbehavior when I edit property dialogs, like editing the pos/ori of a part. Using return or enter no longer commits the changes, it only closes the dialog.

(2022-06-01, 14:34)N. W. Perry Wrote: 2) I've assigned a hotkey (the newly available ` key) to hide the editing compass. (Love that feature, by the way. Is there a menu command for it?) But it seems like the hiding is at the global level, but unhiding is at the session level? In other words, I hid the editing compass only once, but I seem to keep having to un-hide it on different submodels.

(2022-06-01, 15:18)Roland Melkert Wrote: This probably a result of the new 'anti rounding error changes detection' code.

Quote:new sessions always use the state of the current one. You  can change this behavior in the edit settings.

(2022-06-03, 4:19)Orion Pobursky Wrote: I noticed that you changed the !LICENSE line choices. While I haven't released formal guidance yet since I decided to wait on implementation, there will be 2 new lines and the old line (0 !LICENSE Redistributable under CCAL version 2.0 : see CAreadme.txt) will be depreciated and eliminated from the parts library:

Code:

0 !LICENSE Licenced under CC BY 2.0 and CC BY 4.0 : see CAreadme.txt
0 !LICENSE Licenced under CC BY 4.0 : see CAreadme.txt

(2022-06-03, 4:19)Orion Pobursky Wrote: I noticed that you changed the !LICENSE line choices.

(2022-06-07, 20:19)HWQ Wrote: 乐高套装中的乐高零件数量在使用后不会减少
 

(2022-06-07, 20:57)Roland Melkert Wrote: You need to enable the option (right click on a bin)

Also it's only applied to groups containing static items with a known start count.

(2022-06-09, 2:54)Orion Pobursky Wrote: Not related to this Alpha but is there any functional difference between duplicating a part/selection with Ins vs. Ctrl-D

(2022-06-09, 2:54)Orion Pobursky Wrote: Not related to this Alpha but is there any functional difference between duplicating a part/selection with Ins vs. Ctrl-D

(2022-06-09, 21:05)Roland Melkert Wrote: ins will insert a new instance of the current (last used) work part using the current working color and working orientation.

(2022-06-09, 21:32)Orion Pobursky Wrote: That's not the behavior I've experienced. If I select something on the model and hit Ins, it'll duplicate whatever I have selected

(2022-06-09, 23:39)N. W. Perry Wrote: Same here; I would also say it depends what is selected, and where you try to Insert it.

If nothing is selected you'll get the behavior Roland describes, but if things are selected you get a copy of them. (Of course, if parts are selected, then one of them is going to be the working part anyway.)

(2022-06-10, 11:05)Roland Melkert Wrote: I forgot, on a multi select ins acts like ctrl+d.

This is because ctrl+d was added later (mostly for a single selection duplication).

(2022-06-10, 14:36)N. W. Perry Wrote: And am I right about the different behavior in the Source window—if you Ins a meta (like a ROTSTEP) you'll get a new instance of that meta with the values unset? Or is that a different function that I just assigned the same hotkey to?

And by the way, since I don't have an Ins key, I re-mapped all of its functions to the space bar, which I really like and might even recommend to those who do have an Ins key. 

(2022-06-10, 15:10)Roland Melkert Wrote: The default space bar function is to zoom the last used view when using multiple views.

But if you don't need that it's a good alternative for ins.

(2022-06-13, 6:47)David Manley Wrote: Something visually odd appears to be happening with the "choice" API in 1.7 alpha 2.

(2022-06-15, 1:26)David Manley Wrote: A feature request rather than a bug.

It would be helpful to be able to filter a parts bin on the basis of parts not matching. For example, if I'm looking at the part bin "By Category/Brick", I'd like to see neither patterned nor stickered bricks. At the moment, I can filter to show parts containing "pattern" or "sticker" but not the opposite. A simple extension to the syntax, perhaps prefixing a symbol such as an exclamation mark (!) to the word being filtered, would enable this capability.

For example, while a filter of "pattern" would show patterned bricks, a filter of "!pattern" would exclude patterned bricks.

Regards,

David

(2022-06-22, 9:35)Jaco van der Molen Wrote: Heu? This can be done already, can it not?

(2022-06-22, 12:39)Roland Melkert Wrote: Yes in pbg files, but I've added it to the gui partbin filter too in Alpha 2a.

(2022-06-22, 14:22)N. W. Perry Wrote: Speaking of the part bin filter, has anyone else noticed it not behaving as expected? For example, if I'm viewing a list of parts (such as a pbg file, or the All Parts or All Dependencies overview) and I want to see only unofficial ones, I open the dialog and uncheck "Official Parts". The view blinks as if it's being redrawn, but all the official parts are still shown.

This does work as expected in the Search or Sorted bins, for example, so maybe I'm just not expecting the right behavior for other types of bins.

(2022-06-22, 16:06)Roland Melkert Wrote: It will indeed only 'match' on unoffical parts, but only while there is a text given.

To exclude things in a bin at rest you need to edit the pbg file.

Or it will need a second (static) filter feature or something.

(2022-06-22, 16:31)N. W. Perry Wrote: Is there a way to do a wildcard search, i.e. to match on any text? * doesn't seem to work, but I guess I could use ".dat" or even just "."