LDCad: Default color for favorite parts?

[astyanax]

In LDCad, is there a way to assign a default color to a part in the Favorites parts bin, such that it's always shown with that color in the Favorites, no matter the working color in the color bin?

For example, and are next to each other in my Favorites, but when they both take on the same working color, it's very hard to see the difference. They should always be these colors anyway, without me having to go through the additional step of selecting blue or tan each time.

[roland]

There is currently no way to do that using the gui, might add it to 1.7 though.

But you can make it work by editing the favorites file. It's at

%appdata%\LDCad\config\partBin.fav

When you used the windows setup or an similar location besides the exe if you used the (Linux) archive version.

Inside that file all your favorite's are listed by their ldraw filename, e.g.

3001.dat:16

Change the 16 into the color number you need (1 for blue, 19 for tan.

 

It' might be more logical to just make a custom pbg (bin group file) with these kinds of parts as the favorites group/cfg was never really intended for this use, it just inherited this mechanism from the part bin handling code :)

 

 

 

[astyanax]

1 hour ago, roland said:

But you can make it work by editing the favorites file. It's at

%appdata%\LDCad\config\partBin.fav

When you used the windows setup or an similar location besides the exe if you used the (Linux) archive version.

Inside that file all your favorite's are listed by their ldraw filename, e.g.

3001.dat:16

Change the 16 into the color number you need (1 for blue, 19 for tan.

Thanks, that workaround seems to provide exactly what I was after!

[astyanax]

@roland Is there also a way to change the default angle of parts in the parts bin, particularly in Favorites?

For example, at the default angle, and  look identical. (There are many more such pairs.)

[roland]

8 hours ago, astyanax said:

@roland Is there also a way to change the default angle of parts in the parts bin, particularly in Favorites?

You can rotate the parts in the bin by holding down ctrl and moving the mouse around.

This will be temporary and can differ per bin view.

You can make it the default orientation from the bin's right click menu.

New in the d version is the ability to set the default bin orientation of single parts, but you'll have to edit the library shadow for that.

I added that for the 1x4 patterned panels which all look the same at the default angle.