LPub3d crashed when generating BOM (treat as part issue)

[BerthWan]

Subject

I used a universal joint in a model in three subparts in a single callout. I used the "treat as part function" to manage it. There's no problem with the step and its PLI. But, when generating the BOM, the software crashed. There's a error message : "failed to retrieve BOM render options using viewer step key 'ujoint';16;0' for image 'ujoint-0_16_1753_150_DPI_0.9_3023-45.png." where ujoint is my submodel's name. I bypass the issue by copy/paste the PLI png from "LPub3d\parts\" to "LPub3d\bom\" before generating the BOM pages.

Environment

• Version of LPub3D - LPub3D 2.4.6.0.3111
• Operating system - Windows 10, x86_64

Configuration

• LPub3D installation path

  • Windows: D:\Installations\LDRAW\LPub3D_x86_64

• Registry Extract

  • Windows (portable): D:\Installations\LDRAW\LPub3D_x86_64\config\LPub3D Software

• Renderer configuration files

  • [Application data path]/ldv/ldvExport.ini
  • [Application data path]/3rdParty/ldglite-1.3/config/ldglite.ini
  • [Application data path]/3rdParty/ldview-4.4/config/ldview.ini
  • [Application data path]/3rdParty/ldview-4.4/config/ldviewPOV.ini
  • [Application data path]/3rdParty/lpub3d_trace_cui-3.8/config/povray.conf
  • [Application data path]/3rdParty/lpub3d_trace_cui-3.8/config/povray.ini

Logs

• Application Log: [Application data path]/logs/LPub3DLog.txt
• Renderer Log: [LDraw model path]/stdout-ldglite
• Renderer Log: [LDraw model path]/stdout-povray
• Renderer Log: [LDraw model path]/stderr-ldglite
• Renderer Log: [LDraw model path]/stderr-povray

Screenshots

• Configuration->Preferences->General
• Configuration->Preferences->Rendering
• Configuration->Preferences->Publishing
• Configuration->Preferences->Logging
• Configuration->Preferences->Other

Steps to reproduce

generate a BOM using the treat as part functionnality (I encountered it on an other model but it was for a minifig, so I ignored it and it solved the issue)

Expected behaviour

the complete universal joint appears in the BOM

Actual behaviour

the software crashed after displaying the error message

Workaround

I tried to generate the BOM without the complete universal joint and it worked fine (but with three subparts in the BOM)

Solution suggestion

I copy/paste the PLI generated image file in the bom directory. lpub3d_big_bom.zip

[trevorsandy]

Thank you for reporting this behaviour.

I'll take a look.

Cheers,

[trevorsandy]

This behaviour has been corrected.

Cheers,

[BerthWan]

Thank you.

[trevorsandy]

Hello Berth,

Just a quick note to say

0 STEP and 0 ROTSTEP are the same in terms of declaring a new STEP. The only difference is ROTSTEP also presents rotation coordinates.

So this...

0 STEP
0 ROTSTEP 0 90 0 REL

can be replaced with

0 ROTSTEP 0 90 0 REL

Cheers,

[BerthWan]

Yes I know, but I had issues in the past with some software (I can't remember which one) that was solved with this trick, I kept the habit.