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Hi all, let me give a short intro before jumping straight to my question:

I am currently building a model in LDCad and I'm creating instructions for it in LPub3D (with LDView as renderer).

One of the parts I am using is the Power Functions 20cm extension wire (as a submodel .ldr inside my main .mpd). Inside LDCad I have been able to create the full wire from a template, I have routed the correct path for the wire through my model, and I have attached the correct connectors to both ends (1 PF, 1 PF/9V). But when I am creating instructions, LPub3D shows the 'routed' submodel (with all the weird angles in the cable and rotated connectors) in the partslist (PLI) for that step, instead of a plain picture of the 20cm cable.

I have been looking further and found that the partnumber for the 20cm wire with 1PF and 1 PF/9V connector is 60656 (see also link above), but I have not been able to locate that part in my parts list, nor did I find it in the LDraw.org parts tracker (official and unofficial). Same for the 50cm PF cable with partnumber 58118. 

My question is: Are these parts even available in LDraw, and if so, where can I get them?

I can work around it for now by just putting the 'routed' wire in my PLI, and I will put some text block besides it stating this is the 20cm cable, but my OCD compels me to keep looking for the correct visual representation for these parts...

Thanks in advance!

Edited by Rudivdk
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I don't think there is a static LDraw part for this cable, you could request it on the LDraw.org forum but it could take awhile to become official.

You could also create one yourself using the LDCad template in a loose mpd/ldr and tell LPub to substitute that for the routed one in the PLI

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Thanx @roland, I will try the loose .ldr/substitute option first.

Should I save that inside my main .mpd, or somewhere outside as a separate file, or should it specifically be inside the parts folder of my LDraw root?

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I would make at as a new model so you can use it in multiple instructions, like so:

0 !LPUB PLI BEGIN SUB staticCable.ldr 16
0 !LPUB PART BEGIN IGN
1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 routedCable.ldr
0 !LPUB PART END
0 !LPUB PLI END

Just place that ldr in the same location as the main model mpd.

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After saving my work yesterday, I re-opened the files and continued working on the instructions today. I did not change any of the steps I finished yesterday, but still I found that the PLI image of the static cable had disappeared from the instructions (leaving an empty PLI box with '1x' text inside and the '20cm' textbox floating in mid-air) and could not get it to load again...

So I ended up re-creating the static cable inside my model .mpd as an in-file .ldr submodel. Worked like a charm. Not a big issue, just thought I'd share this info.

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