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| | | | | Re: Ice Cream —Anders Isaksson
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| | | | | Sproaticus skrev i meddelandet <381F1662.B167CCF0@io.com>... (...) Just go into Settings/Change.../S...,Grid,Snap and set your preferred increment for rotations (there are three different choices: coarse, medium, fine). Then you just use the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | MLCad wishlist (was Re: Ice Cream —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) I'm not Mr. Big Rotation but I didn't see that as a big issue. Use the fine scale grid to get the rotation about right via the rotation buttons, then adjust by hand in the properties??? If I were naming off things to fix in MLCad my number one (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | Re: MLCad wishlist (was Re: Ice Cream —Jeremy Sproat
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| | | | | | | (...) Yah, but I typically get more involved with the rotations than that. I tend to use angles with wildly different "step" values; e.g. rot along x by 45 deg. , then rot along z by 36.8 deg. Also I like to be able to move the center of rotation to (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | Re: MLCad wishlist (was Re: Ice Cream —Mike Poindexter
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| | | | | | I felt this should be in the MLCAD group and wrote my comments to each item. In lugnet.cad, Larry Pieniazek writes: [snip] (...) I would say instead allowing you to select a part and drag/drop it elsewhere in the list. (...) Perhaps using the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: MLCad wishlist (was Re: Ice Cream —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | (...) Thanks for the detailed commentary, and of course I have comments on your comments. I have snipped a lot of stuff so readers who come in late should re-read Mike's post, where I agreed with him I just cut it away in a lot of cases. (...) It (...) (25 years ago, 28-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: MLCad wishlist (was Re: Ice Cream —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Right now (MLCAD 1.5), you can right-click a view, and change *that window* to one of the standard views. But you can't add new view-definitions, like "upside down" or "right-front-below" (aka, pit-crew view angle). LDAO allows these types of (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: MLCad wishlist —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) maybe I'm confusing myself. at different times I have different needs. During model design it is handy to have many subfiles as you can segment your work. When I am all done with a model, I'd like to take the MPD and create a model file from (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: MLCad wishlist —Mike Poindexter
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | (...) I agree big time here! I really want that ability as well. It should be able to combine the subfiles with the main dat file and tally up the total parts list without having to change the file from an MPD to a DAT. (...) Maybe he has to be like (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: MLCad wishlist —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) How long have you been a consultant? "maybe I'm confusing myself" sounds suspiciously like a polite way of saying, "you've got it wrong." ;) (...) I'm not even going to go there. (...) Right. (...) Sounds like inlining so far. (...) Yep. (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: MLCad wishlist —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) OK, so how do I do it? when I press the inline button in LDAO with a model selected, I get a textbox with my file in it but I don't see any new file written, or any changes to the old file. So what am I doing wrong. Again, what I want to do is (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: MLCad wishlist —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | | | | | In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Larry Pieniazek wrote: [How do I convert an MPD model to a single-file DAT model?] There are two steps to this operation: first you've got to split your MPD, converting the single MPD to several DATs. Then you've got to inline (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: MLCad wishlist —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) OK, I did this with MLCad. (...) They're all in the model dir. Launching ldlite on the main (.dat) model file correctly displays the whole thing. (...) OK, did this (...) What dialog? All I get is a box displaying the file with three buttons (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: MLCad wishlist —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) The box is the dialog. But it's still a 'mea culpa' -- I was talking about the newer version of LDAO, which never came out of beta. There were some healthy (in the sense of both good and sizeable) changes in the Inliner interface between 2.0.4 (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: MLCad wishlist (was Re: Ice Cream —Mogens Sørensen
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| | | | | | | | | | Hi everybody. This is my first post on Lugnet :-) I just discovered MLcad (and LDraw) a few days ago. And I jumped in joy. I believe that it is nearly 20 years since I played with Lego. (...) As fare as I remembers, A*B is equals to B*A :-) But I (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: MLCad wishlist (was Re: Ice Cream —Jack Gregory
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| | | | | | | | | | 3D rotations are not transitive. --Jack Gregory Mogens Sørensen <Djelle@get2net.dk> wrote in message news:FMFuD4.6t4@lugnet.com... (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: MLCad wishlist (was Re: Ice Cream —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | | | In other words, A*B is not equal to B*A, when A and B are matrices. Steve (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: MLCad wishlist (was Re: Ice Cream —Jeff Boen
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| | | | | | | | | (...) I've talked to Mike extensively about color selection... my advice was to have a "quick" color bar running vertically on one side of the screen, ala Corel Draw! with 32 or so color boxes... click the box and the currently selected object(s) (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: MLCad wishlist (was Re: Ice Cream —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Just 'cause I can't keep my mouth shut, I'd rather see a drop-down color selection tool than an always-there color tool. Video real estate is limited as it is. Ditto for the zoom buttons. They'd go perfect in a drop-down list or dialog. But (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Ice Cream —Bram Lambrecht
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) I like the CorelDraw idea. I think the best way to please both sides is to have a removable color bar and a drop-down list. If the color bar were to follow the true style of the Corel bar (which takes up very little room), you would be able to (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: MLCad wishlist (was Re: Ice Cream —Johannes Keukelaar
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| | | | | | | | "LP" == Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> writes: LP> When the colors pop up, tell me the LDraw color numbers. Also, let LP> me pick 16 as a special choice. I can't right now tell if it's one LP> of the grays, not there at all or what. (I may hack (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: MLCad wishlist (was Re: Ice Cream —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | (...) So they do! :-) But that requires holding your mouse over the same spot for 3 seconds. I just never have time to wait around. :-) BTW: the first square in the 3rd row is color 16 and the tooltip text for it is "main color" which pretty much (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: MLCad wishlist (was Re: Ice Cream —Johannes Keukelaar
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| | | | | | | "MP" == Mike Poindexter <lego@poindexter.cc> writes: <snippage> MP> Does anybody else have anything else that should be in MLCAD? Well, I seem to have some problems with saving instruction pictures. It just crashes on me sometime after saving the (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: MLCad wishlist (was Re: Ice Cream —Mogens Sørensen
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| | | | | | | | Johannes Keukelaar wrote ... (...) The prog. always crashes for me, after the first picture. With a pagefault. Djelle alias Mogens Sørensen (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: MLCad wishlist (was Re: Ice Cream —Michael Lachmann
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| | | | | | Ok my friends, whats up now ... 1) The color requester: Beside the problem of not beeing compatible to LDraw for the moment how do you like the new color box and dialogs? 2) The compatibility problem will be solved with the next version which should (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: MLCad wishlist (was Re: Ice Cream —Will Hess
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| | | | | | (...) LDraw (...) I like it very much thank-you. (...) I think that: 1) The file format should be .mlc to retain 8.3 compatibility for those of us who are used to it. 2) You should not have to export the file to save as a DAT. Simply make DAT an (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | Re: Ice Cream —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | (...) My big reason for not using MLCAD is that I am very fast in LEdit, but I can only go at half or quarter speed in MLCAD. That and it is not "intuitive" to me. I do try out each update tho. Jeff "There's no pleasing some people." (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: Ice Cream —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) Hmm. I'm liking V1.5. I briefly tried one of the previous versions, and got a bit frustrated. Or maybe I ran out of free time. Anyway, it seems like the major LEdit keystrokes are supported -- XYZ movement, I to insert, A to quick-rotate, C to (...) (25 years ago, 3-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad)
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