Thinking about doing a LDCad 1.7 version

[N. W. Perry]

Not the same but related:
Is there a way to turn off the generation of fallback code and remove it from within LDCad? If not, can there be? I've been manually editing the META with LDDP because I couldn't find a way to do it inside of LDCad.

Came here to suggest something very similar, yet opposite…

Could it be an option to export only the fallback code, without the !LDCAD metas, specifically as a part (.dat) file with appropriate header? This could be used e.g. to open models with flex elements in other LDraw programs without sacrificing the higher quality of LDCad's generated mesh by using static references. (It's also necessary to view an LDCad-generated spring mesh in an external editor.)

I could see this as a third option when choosing "Duplicate subfile…", and possibly also in "Detach subfile", along with new file and new subfile in the current file.