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Re: Restrict pars to LEGO set in MLCad?
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Mon, 13 Jun 2005 02:14:04 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, John O'Keefe wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Anders Isaksson wrote:
> > John wrote:
> > > 
> > > If anyone has any suggestions on how to achieve any of the above
> > > please let me know.
> > 
> > My LDList program (search for LDRAW parts) has the beginnings of this
> > functionality, you can load a set list and only see the parts in that set,
> > and the number of parts remaining, but it does not keep tab of different
> > colours.
> > 
> > Unfortunately MLCad doesn't support Drag&Drop from LDList, so the best you
> > can do is like this:
> > 
> > Get LDList (http://web.telia.com/~u16122508/ldlist.htm)
> > 
> > Create a set list for your set (xyz.set). A set list is just a text file
> > with one line for each part:
> > 
> > 10 3001
> > 5 3002
> > ...
> > 
> > Start LDList and load the set. Now you will only see the parts from the set,
> > and the number available.
> > 
> > Start building in MLCad, but remember that each time you fetch a new part,
> > you should also go to LDList and drag the same part from the text list to
> > the graphical view (of LDList). The count will go down.
> > 
> > I have never finished this part of LDList as no other program author was
> > interested in implementing parts Drag&Drop in their end (maybe Steve Bliss'
> > editor did, I don't really remember (actually, I don't even remember the
> > name of his editor, was it LDAO?)).
> > 
> > Not very much help to you, but at least a step in the right direction...
> 
> Anders thank you so much for your suggestion. It may not get me all
> the way but it is a big leap from where I am currently at. :-)
> 
> Is LDRAW or MLCad open source? If it is I may look into trying to add the
> functionality to the program if it is not too far over my head. If it is not
> open source is there a place I can email or post for suggested features for
> latter builds? Hopefully someone will add this kind of functionality.

I'm not exactly sure what's happened to Anders' memory, but ldglite
has included support for Drag&Drop from ldlist for years now.

  http://news.lugnet.com/cad/?n=8672

You can drag the parts into ldglite and save the file for use in mlcad.

Or you might be able to paste a set listing from peron into ldglite,
if they haven't changed the web page format too much since I coded that
one.  And while it's not mlcad, it is open source, so you can add
whatever features you want.

  http://ldglite.sf.net

Have fun,

Don



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  Re: Restrict pars to LEGO set in MLCad?
 
(...) Sorry Don, I did not intentionally forget ldglite! Must be my age (51 and counting)... Actually, I haven't thought of ldglite as an editor, only as a viewer - maybe you should promote it a bit more aggressively? <downloading now...> Hmm... It (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jun-05, to lugnet.cad)

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(...) Anders thank you so much for your suggestion. It may not get me all the way but it is a big leap from where I am currently at. :-) Is LDRAW or MLCad open source? If it is I may look into trying to add the functionality to the program if it is (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jun-05, to lugnet.cad)

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