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Re: Custom Built LEGO Sets in 2002
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Date: 
Thu, 7 Dec 2000 23:33:25 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:

> Seriously I don't know that any sort of market survey has been taken but I
> think MLCad has a lot of adherents. It's pretty well supported by the
> author. Feature rich, graphical, easy to use (except for the helps which are
> broken, unfortunately) and fast.

For free software MLCad is great.  I used it to create a set.
However, in my experience the output was of horrible quality.
Even though I used the highest resolution, it lost most of the
horizontal lines between layers of bricks, and I spent lots of time
in a paint program drawing lines back in.  Also, I got zero (0) responses
to my question in lugnet.cad.mlcad, which didn't improve my
confidence in getting support.

/Eric McC/



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Custom Built LEGO Sets in 2002
 
(...) I don't have as much of a problem with that, but it's not as high quality as I'd like. Long term I think the ability to plug in different render engines is in plan. I do see this as a bit of a problem and would be interested in the opinions of (...) (26 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
  Re: Custom Built LEGO Sets in 2002
 
(...) I strongly suggest you to give LeoCAD a try. I think you will be satisfied on most issues. Selçuk (26 years ago, 9-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad)

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