[LDCad] Some LDCad questions

[Michael Horvath]

1. Does the program indicate anywhere what the filename of the currently selected part or submodel is?
2. Is there a file list somewhere that will allow me to select one or more parts or submodels based on their filename?
3. How do I select the current part or submodel's parent part or submodel?
4. Is there a way to decrease the font size of the GUI elements? Can I change the font itself to a different one? The default font is very wide.

Thanks.

[Orion Pobursky]

1. Does the program indicate anywhere what the filename of the currently selected part or submodel is?

You can either mouse over the part or see the part in the editor section.
   

2. Is there a file list somewhere that will allow me to select one or more parts or submodels based on their filename?

You can select all the parts with the same name as the selected part with Select-> Same Part
As far as I know you can't do a "wildcard" based selection

3. How do I select the current part or submodel's parent part or submodel?

I don't understand the question

4. Is there a way to decrease the font size of the GUI elements? Can I change the font itself to a different one? The default font is very wide.

You can edit the GUI template. More info is here:
http://www.melkert.net/LDCad/tech/gui

[Michael Horvath]

You can either mouse over the part or see the part in the editor section.

How do I enable that section?

You can select all the parts with the same name as the selected part with Select-> Same Part
As far as I know you can't do a "wildcard" based selection

No, I need to be able to see/read the filename string itself.

I don't understand the question

It is an MPD model with submodel tree. How do I quickly select the current submodel's parent?

You can edit the GUI template. More info is here:
http://www.melkert.net/LDCad/tech/gui

Thanks!

[Orion Pobursky]

How do I enable that section?

Go to View -> New Source Window. You can dock it by holding down Ctrl and dragging it where you want. Once you have the various windows docked that way you like I recommend you lock them by going to Prefs -> GUI -> Lock docked windows. You can still resize them horizontally or vertically if needed but you wont accidentally undock them with a click and drag.

It is an MPD model with submodel tree. How do I quickly select the current submodel's parent?

Roland can correct me but I don't think there a good way to "see the tree". You can, however, see all the files in the current MPD in the part bin area by selecting Model (content) overview information groups -> Content of current session's file