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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, William Black wrote:
>
> > I'm not exactly sure how to make sure the parts are in the correct directories.
> > As for the "Scan Parts" command I have run that multiple times.What happens is
> > that MLCAD will say a file can not be found but when I search the file is indeed
> > in the models directory where I place all the new parts I download as per their
> > recommendations. This is becoming very frustrating.
>
> If you want it to find parts in the Models directory, the MLCad.ini in the
> following zip will probably make that work:
>
> http://www.halibut.com/~tcobbs/ldraw/private/MLCad-ini.zip
>
> Put the MLCad.ini file from the zip into your main MLCad directory (in Program
> Files by default). If you already have an MLCad.ini file, it may be the source
> of the problem. But you will probably want to back it up anyway. After
> installing the file, re-launch MLCad and scan for parts again.
>
> The MLCad.ini above will search for parts in the LDraw\Parts directory, the
> LDraw\Unofficial\Parts directory (used by LDView, which is why I have the file
> in the first place), and the LDraw\Models directory. I don't really use MLCad
> much, but it works for me. I see the unofficial parts auto-downloaded by LDView
> and also the contents of the Models directory (although I'll admit that I don't
> have any parts in my Models directory, just models).
>
> If nothing else works, download LDView, tell it you don't have the LDraw parts
> library installed when it asks, then point it to the parent directory of where
> you want the LDraw directory to be. Rename your existing LDraw directory so
> that LDView won't find it. It will then download the full official library. If
> you then open up a model that contains unofficial parts, it will automatically
> download all the unofficial parts to the LDraw\Unofficial directory. LDView can
> be downloaded from here:
>
> http://ldview.sourceforge.net/Downloads.html
>
> --Travis
a tutorial how to customize the MLCad.ini file with a spot on the scan of
unofficial folders can be found here:
http://www.holly-wood.it/mlcad/ini-en.html
bye, w.
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