[LDCad] Installation -- Bricks Partly or Not Visible in LDCad 1.6c

[Willy Tschager]

Did you use the AIOI to install LDCad?

If so there might be a problem with it as it should have set the parts folder for LDCad automatically

The AIOI copies a complete.zip to the LDraw folder with the \parts and \p subfolders. It also copies a main.cfg with this content:

Code:

<LDrawPaths>
off->sLDrawPath

[editing]
defSteppingVersion=1
defAuthor=sUserName

to:  AppData\Roaming\LDCad\config

In the post install process it finally does this replacement:

Code:

The session variable for %LDrawPartsLibraryPath% is %CommonDocumentsFolder%\LDraw

******************************************

-- Set a string for the commun documents folder
sLDrawPartsLibraryPath = SessionVar.Expand("%LDrawPartsLibraryPath%");

if (bLDCadIsInstalled) then

sMainCfgPath = SessionVar.Expand("%ApplicationDataFolder%" .. "\\LDCad\\config\\main.cfg");

-- Read the contents of main.cfg file into a string.
sMainCfg = TextFile.ReadToString(sMainCfgPath);

-- Check the error code of the last example.
error = Application.GetLastError();
-- If an error occurred, display the error message.
if (error ~= 0) then
    Dialog.Message("Error", _tblErrorMessages[error], MB_OK, MB_ICONEXCLAMATION);
else
    -- Replace every occurrence of the string "sLDrawPath" with the string "expanded LDraw path".
    sNewMainCfg = String.Replace(sMainCfg, "sLDrawPath", sLDrawPartsLibraryPath .. "\\complete.zip", true);
    sNewMainCfg = String.Replace(sNewMainCfg, "sUserName", SessionVar.Expand("%UserName%"), true);   

    -- Write out the modified contents of the text file.
TextFile.WriteFromString(sMainCfgPath, sNewMainCfg, false);

    -- Check the error code of the last example.
    error = Application.GetLastError();
    -- If an error occurred, display the error message.
    if (error ~= 0) then
        Dialog.Message("Error", _tblErrorMessages[error], MB_OK, MB_ICONEXCLAMATION);
    end
end
end

To make it short. It does directly point to the complete.zip file and not the directory.

Hope this helps

w.