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[Kerry Q. <ker...@co...>]

Suggestions on how to make it easier to find & create motor mounts.

 

1.      Move the checkbox called "This component is a motor  mount" to the
General Tab of  "Body Tube Configuration" and "Inner Tube Configuration".
Only after you check that box would the "Motor" tab appear.

 

2.      For any items which have the "This component is a motor mount" box
checked, it would be nice to see the component name in the Design Tree
window (upper left corner of the Rocket Design tab, change the name from,
for example "Body tube" to "Body tube (motor mount)"

 

3.      On the Edit Motor Configuration pop-up window, I don't think there
should be a "motor mounts" section where you can check or uncheck components
to be motor mounts.  There should just be the configuration name table with
a column for the configuration name and a column for each component which
has been designated a "motor mount" by checking the "This component is a
motor mount" check box on the General Tab (as listed in #1 above).

 

4.      Following up on Dmitriy's suggestion, I think that on the "Body Tube
Configuration" menu, on the Motor tab, where it shows "Current Motor", you
should be able to click on that selection to change it from None to an
actual motor, or to change from one motor to a different one.  (you could
then eliminate the "select motor" button from this window) The change would
apply to the currently selected Motor Configuration only.  I think that
Current Motor should be listed BEFORE Motor Configuration on the Motor Tab.
This way, for users only with a single motor, they would never need to visit
the Motor Configuration Screen - they would just create the tube, check a
box to designate it as a motor mount, go to the Motor tab and select the
motor.

 

-Kerry