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(...) While mostly true, I think you're minimizing the utility that a really good 3D view could provide to MLCad. (Note that this isn't meant as a put-down of MLCad; implementing a really good 3D view requires effort that might best be used for (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
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(...) ... Hmmm, I know it's not exactly what you're looking for, but what would you think about maybe taking over the maintainence and development of ldglite? I tend to think of it as the lowest common denominator of LDRAW viewer/editors, but with a (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: MLCad Parts Tree (was: LDD vs LDraw)
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(...) That is very helpful! Thanks! (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | MLCad Parts Tree (was: LDD vs LDraw)
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(...) That's a cool idea. In the meantime, if you look in the MLCad program directory, there's a file called MLCad.grp. This contains all the grouping information for the parts tree. The organization of the file is pretty straightforward. In my copy (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
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(...) That doesn't surprise me; most of what I know about MLcad was learned by trial-and-error. (...) I must be doing something wrong, but whenever I place a new part it seems to appear in an arbitrary location in one plane, and doesn't "snap" to an (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Comments about James Mathis' Factory Sets
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Hello, Ville, Thank you very much for buying these three train models. (...) You have examined them more closely than I did to find faults with the design. To the Pullman Car, I made no changes. To the DB103 I made the suggested changes: - floor (...) (18 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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Hi Chris, Some of what you ask for in MLCad can already be done... (...) This surprises me. I've never had a problem. (...) You can sort of do this with submodels (...) Apart from looking nicer I don't think there's any viewing that LDView can do (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
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(...) I have used LDD (a little) and MLcad (occasionally over several years) and had already given this topic some thought, so here goes. If I were writing a new CAD program, it would do everything MLcad can do today, plus: I like the way that LDD (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) I think there's some discussion on this topic already, but my view is that LDD and LDRAW each have their place. LDD Pros: -Easy to use with a gentler learning curve. Most kids can figure it out. -Quite rapid to construct models. -Real-time (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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Hey gang, So with the update on licensing soon to be finished for the LDraw community, it got me to thinking about the Pros and Cons of LDD vs the LDraw toolset. So I thought I would throw it out to the community to see what other thought. What are (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: SketchUp Lego Contest.
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(...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | SketchUp Lego Contest.
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The SketchUp people are having a Lego modelling challenge. Thread: (2 URLs) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: TCLTC Layouts Rendered in Sketch-up
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(...) Wow, that's really nifty. Can you imagine how cool an entire NMRA 3-D layout model would look? Naturally the next question would be: so when are you going to add some trains? However I suspect I already know the answer: "Ross has been working (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | LDraw.org's November 2006 Model and Scene of the Month Winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the November 2006 Model/Scene of the month contests: (URL) MOTM, P-55 Exiled-Class Medium Fighter by Tom Kimsey> (URL) SOTM, Shipwrecked by Philip Heinrich> The voting for the December 2006 Model of the Month and (...) (18 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX) !
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| | Re: Is the part 4515 slope face granular ?
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(...) Bonjour Jerome, Part 4515 slope face is granular. Less than most slope bricks, but definitely not shiny. Philo (18 years ago, 11-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | pov ray
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Hi everyone, this is my first post. I've been messing around with ldraw for a while but now I'm seriously getting into it and I'm running into all sorts of problems. My main one is getting povray to do anything. I can render using the lpub gui but i (...) (18 years ago, 11-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hello, Could someone help ? I would like to calculate a model with pov-ray that use this part. Thank you ! Jerome (18 years ago, 11-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: TCLTC Layouts Rendered in Sketch-up
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(...) Your wait is over:-) I (URL) pics> by the same name. Ideally, you'd want nice, perpendicular shots of your buildings from the front and sides to create the best effect-- Ross had to use some pretty bad shots to get these, but I think they (...) (18 years ago, 11-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | dat file for wedge piece 50955 and 50956
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Hello dear fellows! For the instructions of a new model I would need .dat files for the newer wedge pieces: (URL) 50955 ((URL)) and (URL) 50956 ((URL)) Unfortunately it has not been made yet. However there exist the wedge pieces for: (URL) 42060 (...) (18 years ago, 10-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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| | Re: MLCAD Partslist errors
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(...) I also have another solution, which may be of use. See (URL) this message>. Martin (18 years ago, 10-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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