(2020-05-26, 7:58)Jaco van der Molen Wrote: To work with it and understand fully, please refer to one of the many tutorials that are out there, like mine:
https://sites.google.com/view/workingwit...r-exchange
Maybe you can study my showcase Technic set 42061 - Telehandler model too.
https://sites.google.com/view/workingwit...d/showcase
I did study your tutorials, thank you very much for them! They are the best I could find. In fact, I used your arrows you shipped with your instruction package. I am not sure whether it would be of any interest, but the two instructions I mentioned in my first post are https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-41774/G...herr-l550/ and a bigger Technic crane (2500+ parts, power functions, not published yet to Rebrickable, I hope it will be soon). I can share both of them with forum members if for some reason you would be interested
(2020-05-26, 7:58)Jaco van der Molen Wrote: What version of LPub3D do you use? I do not experience that many crashes. In fact, almost none.
I used the latest CI build from Github. It is true though that it crashes more than builds from some time ago.
(2020-05-26, 7:58)Jaco van der Molen Wrote: You say "LPub3D default settings should follow current Lego visual language". Why?
Because it would make our generated instructions look more professional as they would look closer to the real thing. Studio currently doesn't do this. I also have a set of settings which (almost) achieve this goal, I am just saying it should be the default. It is a minor point though
(2020-05-26, 7:58)Jaco van der Molen Wrote: ... I add the metacommands for those manually to speed things up...
I also converged to a similar process, after doing all the ROTSTEP's in LDCad, which is fast, I try to add callout, rotation icon and other metas in a text editor not to wait for the LPub to render the page.
(2020-05-26, 7:58)Jaco van der Molen Wrote: You state that BUFEXCHG and REMOVE GROUP are hard to use. You are right about that. These are very complex and advanced features and hard to learn techniques.
I am not saying they are hard to learn. I am saying the require a lot of manual work and lead to bad patterns. For example, if you need to attach a cable from a motor to a battery box, you need to remove the whole motor subassembly and flatten it in the step the cable gets connected. Same goes for rotating parts of a model. I think this is due to poor design of these functions (I know they are about a century old, nevertheless).
(2020-05-26, 7:58)Jaco van der Molen Wrote: IMHO I think you expect too much of the software
That is my problem indeed
