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Re: What's the right group to ask tool usage questions?
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lugnet.cad
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Sat, 30 Oct 1999 03:28:43 GMT
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OK, here's the question then.
it relates to MPDs and MLCad.
first, should I be able to read and manipulate an existing MPD in MLCad?
For instance this one:
http://www.lugnet.com/cad/dat/models/?n=686
Saving the body of that posting as a .MPD file gives me a bunch of "part not
found" and then a GPF. MLCad seems to work fine on some other files I have. But
those are perfectly ordinary parts I think, and I am not more than a month or
two behind on updates...
Second, suppose I have created a model file that I want to use as a submodel
(say, a truck assembly). If I start a new file, do an "import" I don't see the
submodel in the main model. Do I add it just like I add any other part? I want
two instances of it, rotated 180 degrees so the couplers face outward.
Can someone walk me through that part? I'm a little confused by the process.
Thanks to Mike Poindexter for turning me on to MLCad, it's way easier to get
started in than LDraw/LEdit (even with Bram's good tutorial I found LEdit very
counter intuitive)... MLCad you just drag the part over from the window and
voila. I also like that you have the text view where you can reorder the parts
or add steps etc.
Thanks for any helps. I've read the help text in this area a few times and I
don't quite grok it.
++Lar
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 | | Re: What's the right group to ask tool usage questions? [DAT]
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| (...) But (...) It is not a problem with out of date parts files. Actually, yours are probably more up to date that the ones in this file. I noticed that the majority of the "part not found" errors are where it uses older DAT files, such as the old (...) (25 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: What's the right group to ask tool usage questions?
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| (...) Just plain old lugnet.cad is fine. The *.dat.* groups are only for posting .dat files (and for follow-up comments.) The cad.dev group is for discussions on creating, modifying, etc cad programs and parts. Look out folks, Larry saw a little too (...) (25 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad)
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