When I had my DS I had a lovely set of parts books that I kept in the garage as they were useful to see how things went back together (as we all know taking apart is easy!) Obviously the world has moved on and we have ePer which is great for when I'm at the computer but I still fancied having a paper parts book. I could just print all the individual pages from ePer but I couldn't see any bulk print option and I wanted a bit of a mental challenge.
So, being a retired programmer, I thought I'd have a crack at producing a paper parts book. I got hold of a v84 ePer DVD and set about reverse engineering the database. It's slowly coming together and I've got an initial version. I need to do some work to show the modification and version details and to show the diagrams for sub-assemblies. In theory the program I've written should work for any of the models on ePer but I've only tried the Barchetta. I've a few thoughts on what else I'd like to include but I thought I'd share the work in progress to see if anyone else is interested.
Of course, if someone knows how to do a complete print from ePer then I could put my brain back to sleep . . .
So, being a retired programmer, I thought I'd have a crack at producing a paper parts book. I got hold of a v84 ePer DVD and set about reverse engineering the database. It's slowly coming together and I've got an initial version. I need to do some work to show the modification and version details and to show the diagrams for sub-assemblies. In theory the program I've written should work for any of the models on ePer but I've only tried the Barchetta. I've a few thoughts on what else I'd like to include but I thought I'd share the work in progress to see if anyone else is interested.
Of course, if someone knows how to do a complete print from ePer then I could put my brain back to sleep . . .