LDCad, submodels and mpd's

[Darren Carlson]

Well, all this messing around and I'm learning stuff. Also found a bug.

You should be able to recreate the problem with the files attached to my OP.

Open the mpd.
Open the ldr.
Switch to the mpd. Create a new submodel.
Drag the Front_Tank ldr into it.

This is where I learned that double clicking that model actually takes you back to the original that you have open to edit it. The submodel is actually just a representation of the ldr just as a submodel is in an mpd. That's the learning.

The bug is this: Now that you have things in that state, switch back to editing Front_Tank.ldr.
Click File, Close. Crashes every time.

ps. The reason I was trying to close the original while I had it open in the mpd was I assumed it might break the link and leave just the parts inside the submodel so that I could then insert that submodel into the main model. I was wrong.

This has become entertaining talking to myself.
I manually added it to the mpd in notepad++. Cut and paste and stick the 1 FILE at the beginning and 1 NOFILE at the end and now it works.
Not elegant but it worked.