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Subject: 
Re: LeoCAM alpha release
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Sat, 14 Dec 2002 00:48:16 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Wayne Gramlich writes:
> 
> 1. One of my fellow BayLUG members is a *very* pro-Linux.
>   Much to my suprise he wound up using MLCAD to do his
>   MOC instruction manuals.  When I asked him "why?",
>   his response has that LeoCAD could not read and write
>   files that interoperated with MLCAD.  My gut reaction
>   to this statement, is that it should be almost trivial
>   to get LeoCAD to read MLCAD generated files and write
>   files that MLCAD can subsequently read.

  What do you mean by that? LeoCAD has been able to read/write .dat files
for years.

> 2. I never found the LeoCAD GUI to be particularly hard, but
>   I did notice that I never wanted to move bricks around
>   with the mouse; instead, I always used the keyboard because
>   I couldn't precisely position anything any other way.  It
>   may be sufficient to add a mode to LeoCAD to allow people
>   to use LDraw/MLCAD keyboard bindings.

  I use the keyboard exclusively too but I never thought that following the
LEdit keys was so important to other people. I'll work on that.

Leonardo



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  Re: LeoCAM alpha release
 
(...) Alas, I did not know that. After your telling me, I dug around the (URL) site and found: (URL) must have read that a long time ago and forgotten it. Maybe a GUI tweak to specify the save format? I don't know. I will tell my friend that .DAT (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)

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  Re: LeoCAM alpha release
 
(...) Leonardo: Two comments: 1. One of my fellow BayLUG members is a *very* pro-Linux. Much to my suprise he wound up using MLCAD to do his MOC instruction manuals. When I asked him "why?", his response has that LeoCAD could not read and write (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad)

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