Allen Smith Wrote:An alternative to defining decorated categories is to expect the program to identify patterned parts and auto-generate subcategories for them, either based on the part naming convention (is it 100% consistent?) or a new meta.
It is possible it just takes some trial and error to identify all the exclusions etc, for example these are the rules for my 'plain bricks' bin in LDCad
[options]
kind=filter
caption=Plain bricks
description=Basic bricks without stickers etc
mascot=3003.dat
sortOn=description
<rules>
include category brick
exclude description ~*
exclude description _*
exclude description duplo
exclude description pattern
exclude description pat.
exclude description spring
exclude description sticker
exclude description logo
exclude description without corner
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And these are for 'normal plates'
[options]
kind=filter
caption=Normal plates
description=Normal plates
mascot=3022.dat
sortOn=description
<rules>
include category plate
exclude description ~*
exclude description _*
exclude description duplo
exclude keyword wing
exclude description without corner
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Personally I think we should do more with keywords and leave the categories 'big' and relative few.