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Re: Next MLCad Release
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Thu, 14 Oct 1999 16:12:07 GMT
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JSPROAT@IO.COMnospam
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Michael Lachmann wrote:
> My suggestions for version 1.6 and above:
> - Read Compatibility to LDLite
> - Enhanced color requester (support for all possible colors)
> - Some sort of explosion drawing mode (my idea was to show the parts which
> are added in a step, around the model in a small frame, with an arrow
> pointing from the part to the final position of this part, this would be a
> step, so the next step would show the model with all parts placed on the
> model).
These would be great additions. It also needs (please please :-)...
- Relative piece rotation. It should be easy to do this without knowing the
previous rotation values, isn't it just a matrix multiply?
- Put the little "current part" crosshairs over the piece's rotation center
instead of the geometric center.
- Allow rotating around a point other than a part's rotation center (but this
is really more a subpart design issue and less an application design issue...)
(1)
And I think these would be neat but I wouldn't need them...
- More support for LEdit hot-keys. e.g. support for "/"-style menus, maybe a
pop-up menu triggered by pressing the "/" key or some such.
- More hotkeys in the GUI; e.g. the "Select Part" dialog box has no hotkeys
for the different controls.
- Allow sorting the list in the "Select Part" dialog by part description as
well as part number.
- Bugfix: the view angle "left" actually shows the right-hand side;
vice-versa for viewing angle "right".
- Let the part count report count pieces in sub-models as well.
I'm not so much worried about speed or cutting-edge features or stuff like
that. Usability and look-and-feel compatability will make or break any
application. But I'm really excited about MLCad. I think you're doing a
great job! :-,
Cheers,
- jsproat
1. Can you tell I'm a big rotation fan? (2)
2. No pun intended... :-P
--
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| (...) Er, how about make this an option... The crosshairs on the rotation center, the geometric center, or no crosshairs at all. I find the crosshairs to be cumbersome most times, especially with small parts like a 1x1 plate or tile. On the subject (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| Hy all MLCad-Fans Since the discussion about the vertex things still is ongoing, I plan to do the following now. I'll release version 1.5 within the next days, this version will have a landscape generator and a picture generator (don't ask what it (...) (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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