I agree with that 😃 I'm not too familiar with the ldraw based ones (or LDD) but I write/design this kind of assembly documents for my daily job (assembly instructions for operators of production lines). I shall be able to design something for that at some stage.

*I'm really looking forward to this feature *

That would be really useful!

Yeah, it would be really great!

Ha! Great minds do think alike! I think an instruction generator would really be helpful!

It occurred to me that, if an instruction generator isn't easily implemented, perhaps a means to simply list and display the type and number of bricks in a given project might be a good middle-road solution, so that we'd know what bricks we'd need to duplicate that project in the real world.

I just returned to Lego recently, and I just started using Mecabricks about a week ago, and both are really fun! Thanks a bunch!

Hello,

BOM is currently available in .csv as a temporary fix before I make a nice part table in the model page 😉
See this thread: http://www.mecabricks.com/en/forum/topic/85

Ah! I didn't look close enough!

Bear with me, I'm a bit new at this! 😃 Thanks again!

Any development on this feature?

I have a large MOC with over 600pcs and would love to generate instructions for it. Actually I've acquired most of the parts (98% maybe) and already built it using the workshop as a guide. It has its benefits as one can create groups and hide them and also rotate the whole model but having a booklet and hand it to my children would also be cool. 😄

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Not yet. Architecture is still on paper only. It is a massive work which I cannot to commit right now. But the day it will come it will be awesome 😛

Very big advocate for this part of Mecabricks here ! Scrubs, I do recommend that you check out how it's done with steps and sub-models in Ldraw, using MLcad or Bricksmith. In my opinion, certainly the best way to produce building instructions outside of TLG facilities.
Being able to drag groups and submodels around in the list of steps is eventually quite intuitive, and a necessity for working with larger models.

I am confident what ever you come up with will be great : )

I had a quick look, but I prefer to start from the end result - good looking instruction - and see what technology I need to get there.
I am a process engineer and I am used to writing assembly instruction documents for factory floor. It is always funny when people mention LEGO booklets during meetings as an example.

After playing around with LDD and MecaBricks, MecaBricks by far is a much more intuitive editor and the exports for rendering are a nice bonus. It took me 30 seconds to know how to do everything, whereas LDD took an hour and has a lot of annoying aspects to it's UI.

But the main reason I would use either software is to be able to generate build instructions. If MecaBricks could add just that one feature, it would be the only tool I use. Well, a few extra features would be nice like restrictive positioning (like LDD so that placement of bricks is "legal" so that the model can be built in real life) but mainly it's the instructions output that is key.

a part i need for my lego ideas project, it would really be useful if we can add this pig
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?id=91957&idColor=104&ccName=6308842#T=C&C=150

thanks