Custom CSV tabs

BikeCAD Official
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Hello!

I am looking for a way to speed up the two drawings I do for each bike

  • customer view - fit and geo info
  • shop view - jig, miter and clearance info

Right now I sort through each tab selecting the outputs I need, once for the customer and once for myself. Inevitably I end up missing some from time to time even though I use the nearly the same outputs on each bike.

What I am proposing is the ability to add custom tabs under ‘configure csv’ that builders could populate with the outputs they use the most. This way we could hit ‘select all’ in a custom tab and get all the fit and geo info we use, then ‘select all’ under another tab for all the shop info we need.

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You can save your dimension sets as templates and switch between them in the File menu.

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I agree with @manzanitacycles . For more on this, see: bikecad.ca/templates_in_bikecadpro. However, your question was about CSV files. Is that your preferred reference for your build specifications? I could potentially implement a way to switch between multiple CSV configuration files if that’s what you’re after.

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Oh, my bad. You’re talking about CSV output. I tried customizing it once but in the end went back to using the drawing with dimension templates. For me it’s easier to manage and provides a visual reference so I don’t accidentally refer to the wrong dimension.

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Here’s my suggestion for a workaround before a possible implementation in a future release.

  • Open BikeCAD
  • Select the CSV outputs you want for your customer view
  • Quit BikeCAD
  • Navigate to your BikeCAD configuration folder, also make a shortcut to it for easy access
    [WINDOWS] C:\Users|username\AppData\Local\BikeCAD_xx.x_configuration
    [MacOS] /Users/username/BikeCAD_xx.x_configuration
  • Back up the config folder by compressing it into a zip archive (just in case)
  • Make a copy of the config folder
  • Rename the copy to for example: “BikeCAD_xx.x_configuration_customer”
  • Open BikeCAD
  • Select the CSV outputs you want for your shop view
  • Export the shop CSV data
  • Quit BikeCAD
  • Rename the active config folder to: “BikeCAD_xx.x_configuration_shop”
  • Rename the customer copy of the folder back to the original name by removing the “_customer” part of the name
  • Open BikeCAD
  • Export your customer CSV data

Now all you need to do is to swap between the configurations by quitting BikeCAD, renaming the folders back and forth, and then re-launching BikeCAD.

A bit cumbersome, but easier and way quicker and more accurate than selecting the outputs each time.

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