LDCad 1.7 Beta 1 (win+linux)

[Roland Melkert]

Still working on minor new features....

I suppose making the first step an abs rotation is a good solution—and any rel rotations following it would be based on the current (abs) rotation, not the default one, right?

(If I had to choose, the much bigger wish for me would be setting a rotation for the final step of a model without having to add an extra (blank) step at the end. It hurts me just a little bit to have 29 steps in my model when there are only 28 in the instructions. )

Yes only the first one would be abs by default, all others work like normal. The first one can also be changed later as it will only be applied once when starting a new subfile.

The extra step thing is indeed annoying, but it stems from LDraw models always having at least one step. So the 0 STEP line actually marks the END of a step while most people associate it with the beginning of a step. Although I do believe LPub ignores the last step if it's empty.

So just filtering on the fixed colors as given in a pbg?

I could introduce a special token for it like the current nxn and !

Maybe # like "brick 2x4 #4"

I've added this using '@' (# is already used to enter hexadecimal color numbers)

So you can now do, eg:

Code:

brick 2x4 @4

or

Code:

brick 2x4 @#8FFFFFF

or even

Code:

!brick !@15

Only one color can be given though so it works like a AND upon the other filter text.