I've just now discovered quickfort-- planning on digging out huge areas with specific, planned shapes, in multiple, and I thought, "Hey, I really ought to figure out one of those auto-designation programs."
Was pleasantly surprised at how easy and versatile it was.
I've been using a text editor to plan, and conversion from text to a quickfort-readable format is a breeze. I just do a find replace on each character. '#' (wall) becomes '`,' and '.' (floor) becomes 'd,'. For some reason, I was scared off by having to figure out a spreadsheet program to use quickfort, but it turns out that even that's not necessary.
One thing that would just blow me away would be if quickfort could designate linkages (from lever or pressure plate to building). I realize that such functionality would require that quickfort know where in the build queue every single door or hatch (or whatever) was, meaning that all linkable buildings would have to be placed by quickfort, but for doing some crazy logic things involving thousands of mechanisms, such functionality just couldn't be beat. With large circuits, manual linkage creates a huge headache that means that I have to build my doors and hatches in a specific order, just so that I can find them on the link list.
Nor would it only solve headaches-- it would mean that blueprints for logic circuits could easily be shared.
Is it possible to use quickfort to place pressure plates? It kind of looks like it wouldn't be.
Thank you very much for the wonderful program.