LDCad 1.7 Beta 1 (win+linux)

[Roland Melkert]

I have two probably minor suggestions for the next round of updates:

1. I'd like to be able to set the default step rotation from the GUI. It could be a menu item under Prefs->Editing, and/or in the Step Properties dialog, the addition of a "Use as def" button. (Would only work for ABS step rotations I guess.) Right now you can set the default rotation by editing main.cfg, but you first need to know the matrix to use…

I've been looking into this and the default value is actually the same as used in LDView and LPub.
If you change it, things will look different in LPub etc. I think this is why I made it a main.cfg thing only.
The 'normal' way of changing the base is to put an abs rotation in the first step. (the step properties dialog has a sample view button.)
An alternative could be to add an option to automatically make the first step an abs rotation one with a custom rotation?

2. I'd like to be able to set default directories for Open and Save. (Or is there already a way?) Right now it looks like the only option is the last used directory, which is often handy. But I'd like to set my Models dir as the default, because for some reason I can't navigate upwards in the directory tree in the Save and Open dialogs. If I want to change to another directory, I have to drill down each time from the top level of my computer.

Is this still an issue as the clean way to do this, would be to make all folder io stuff aware of a 'the last used/static' option. And adding a new dialog to set those options. This is not something I put high on my 'fun to do' list 

The discussion about partsbin configuration above made me remember to put in this feature request, which I've been meaning to do for a long time: would it be possible to add to the "Part bin display filter" dialog the ability to inculde/exclude prints/stickers/duplo/quatro?  

I've been looking into this and there arn't any real universal ways to exclude those things like the other 'include' option checkboxes (those are all based on !LDRAW_ORG)

The only way I can think of, is to offer an (comma separated) category and/or description exclusion input field in the filter dialog below the 'match on' section.

I also still like my initial thought:

So the easiest way for me to add this would be extending the search group pbg format to include a base filter.

Anyone has additional thoughts about any of the above points?