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| This discussion about raised a suggestion for a nice feature for MLCad (and perhaps also for other LDraw building software): A possibility to filter all patterned bricks. And have this filter be enabled and disabled with a press of a button. (The (...) (22 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Have you looked at the "group configuration options"? I think it's on the Tools menu (or maybe Extras). I use this feature to separate out "unmodified" bricks and plates into "Bricks" and "Plates" categories, and the modified ones go into (...) (22 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) FWIW, Microsoft's .NET framework version 1.1 has a regular expression parser. I don't know if it exists in the MFC, or in version 1.0 of the framework (I'm new to Visual Studio), but if it's available to the mlcad build I'd really like to see (...) (22 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| (...) okay, this sounds like what im thinking about! but, how do you do it? I found what you are describing, it is under Settings>Groups>Group Configuration and then i get two lists - on one side is says "Brick" on the other "<Brick" then on the (...) (22 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Suggestion: Name: Search: Brick, unpatterned <Brick & !pattern Brick, patterned <Brick & pattern This will create two categories, one for patterned bricks, one for unpatterned bricks. Most of the printed bricks have pattern in their name, so (...) (22 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Here are the rules I use to separate the bricks... Brick <Brick & !with & !Round & !Corner & !Log & !Shock & !Octagon & !Facet Brick, round <Brick & " Round" Brick, modified <Brick & !" Round" Note that this leaves plain bricks duplicated in (...) (22 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Note the spaces. They're also important here... (...) Copy-n-paste is your friend. Amy (22 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| THanks Amy! You rock! It worked perfectly! -lenstu (...) (22 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
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