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Hi, Michael, I have a question. Why is it that MLCad requires the LDraw/LEdit package to be installed in order to run? I'm curious, because I have made a K'nex parts library available on my website and it would be nice if someone who wasn't into (...) (23 years ago, 6-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Missing wheels?
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(...) Fredrik Glöckner made this part. You can find it here: (URL) 6578 tyre can be found on lugnet.cad.dat.parts or here (URL) Klein A Mindstorms fan. (23 years ago, 5-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Missing wheels?
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I'm looking for the like in 8218, the small technic wheels, but they don't seem to exist in MLCAD. Not in Lugnet part ref either for that matter... It's 2994 on this page: (URL) it simply not exist, or have I just been looking in the wrong places? (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLSAVE V1.00
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(...) Correction: When you press "Preview" on the Windows screensaver control panel, moving the mouse doesn't stop the screensaver. But, when the screensaver comes up on its own later, moving the mouse does cancel it. Jason J Railton (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLSAVE V1.00
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Michael - Great program. I love it, and I have it on my PC at work now. (...) I found this too. It's a little bit unexpected, particularly if someone else here needs my PC. (...) That would be great. (...) Good idea - each model would then take a (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Announcing my entrance to the Custom Kit Market (pre-production model ore car)...
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(...) Less then 90 degrees, around 45... Thanks, josh (23 years ago, 29-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: LGEO and MLCAD colors
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Thanks, That fixes my problem. -Mike (...) (23 years ago, 24-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Question on veiwing DAT files in MLcad
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Thank you very much Mike. Your response is appreciated. Chris (...) (23 years ago, 23-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Question on veiwing DAT files in MLcad
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(...) Thank you very much Ryan. Your response is appreciated. Chris (23 years ago, 23-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Question on veiwing DAT files in MLcad
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Actually, there's an easier way. When you see a message with the keyword [DAT] in the header, simply right-click on that darker text [DAT], and if you're using Internet Explorer you should automatically be asked where on your harddisk you want to (...) (23 years ago, 23-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Question on veiwing DAT files in MLcad
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(...) It's really easy: just copy all the text of the file, paste it into a text editor (notepad) and save it with a .dat extension. You can then open it in MLCad Cheers, --Ryan (23 years ago, 22-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Question on veiwing DAT files in MLcad
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Can someone please answer this. Thank you. (...) (23 years ago, 22-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Removing confusing metacommands (Was: NEW: MLCAD V2.10)
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LDAO's editor has a LDL2DAT function (on the tools menu). To translate, edit your dat file, highlight the lines you want to translate (in this case, the entire file), and pick LDL2DAT from the menu. Steve (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: NEW: MLCAD V2.10
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I've found the bug already - it's realy a small thing. But since I didn't find many people using this commands I didn't have enough files available for testing. That's wy it wasn't tested so good. There will be a small update the next days. Regards, (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Removing confusing metacommands (Was: NEW: MLCAD V2.10)
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(...) Apparently this also works in ldglite as long as you use the ldlite parser. I just tried it and mlcad seemed happy with the resulting file. So you can remove the metacommands on non-windows systems if you wish. Of course LDAO and mlcad only (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Removing confusing metacommands (Was: NEW: MLCAD V2.10)
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Thanks Larry, It worked without login. /Tore (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Removing confusing metacommands (Was: NEW: MLCAD V2.10)
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(...) Try SourceForge, that's where I got my most recent copy. Paul has put the install package there, and is also using sf facilities to track feature requests and bug reports. Good stuff. This URL should get you to where you need to go. (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Removing confusing metacommands (Was: NEW: MLCAD V2.10)
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Thanks, Paul, But where can I find LDLite 2.2? At (URL) ver 2.0B seems to be hosted. and at (URL) ver 1.6B. (I have LDAO installed in an old 486 with English Windows due to the Scnadinavian comma separator issue...) /Tore (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: what do I do? FATAL ERROR:MLCAD.DLL is invalid!
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well after posting this, I got to looking and found that, there wasn't a .dll file from the .zip,or in the old files I had! I ran a search and found out that windows wasn't showing them (I hate the file hiding feature). I moved the newest one to the (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLSAVE V1.00
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And yet another hello, Michael, I also want to thank you for this program. I haven't had a screen saver (other than Blank Screen) for a long time - until now. I had thought of a few suggestions that I was going to make, but it looks like someone (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Removing confusing metacommands (Was: NEW: MLCAD V2.10)
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LDLite ver 2.2 and above has a working -R option to regenerate the file in standard LDRAW syntax. "ldlite -Rfoo.dat m_faust.dat" would do the conversion. There are other programs. I think LDAO has an inliner option to do this maybe? -gyug (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Removing confusing metacommands (Was: NEW: MLCAD V2.10)
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Is there any tool to make the lines properly rotated and translated without the metacommands? /Tore (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: what do I do? FATAL ERROR:MLCAD.DLL is invalid!
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(...) I believe you didn't overwrite the dll or you have an old dll somewhere in your path. Please delete all old dlls and make sure there is a mlcad.dll in the directory where mlcad.exe is located. MLCad always tries to load the dll from the same (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | what do I do? FATAL ERROR:MLCAD.DLL is invalid!
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Hi, I get this message when I try to start the program: FATAL ERROR:MLCAD.DLL is invalid! I tried reinstaling, and deleting the lachmann directory,in regedit. any other ideas? it ran fine last night after instaling the new version. Gary Flustrated. (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLSAVE V1.00
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Hi Michael, Pretty cool. I set this up on my computer and it looks pretty good. One issue: It doesn't seem to stop running when the mouse is moved, you need to hit the keyboard to get the screensaver to turn off? Also, in the way of future (...) (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLSAVE V1.00
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Hey, that's cool! My brother, not a Lego User, gave me the great idea that you can build a model using steps and (probably) ghosting to make a Lego movie appear on the screen. I gotta try that... Nice job, Michael, --Ryan (23 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: NEW: MLCAD V2.10
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(...) Thanks Gyug.. I never would have got that from the description. :-) (23 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: NEW: MLCAD V2.10 [DAT]
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I haven't used MLCad for a while, but since I downloaded it and it took over the Open action for .DAT extension files, so when I doubleclicked on my file m__faust.dat (below), it was opened in MLCad. I noticed that the hands were not correctly (...) (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: NEW: MLSAVE V1.00
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Looks very nice! Finally something worthy of replacing the Tomb Raider Movie screen saver on my machine. (Note to self: find polygon mesh of Laura Croft and convert to minifig-scale .DAT format and place in adverturer's model, to get best of both (...) (23 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: NEW: MLCAD V2.10
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Completely different. The rotate feature generates a model out of bricks by rotating an outline. For example, give it a semicircle, and it will generate plans for a sphere made out of bricks. I'm downloading the screen saver now, and I expect that (...) (23 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: NEW: MLCAD V2.10
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(...) Can you talk a little more about this? How does it compare to what LDLite does when you put it in rotate mode? Thanks! Looking forward to the new release! (23 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | NEW: MLSAVE V1.00
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Hy friends, it's time for something new - therefor I'd like to introduce MLSave :-) MLSave ist a screen saver for windows which supports LDraw compatible files. Load a file into MLSave and let it assemble the model, rotate the model or even let it (...) (23 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad) !
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| | NEW: MLCAD V2.10
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***** NEW MLCAD V2.10 ***** Create your own virtual Lego models using the new rotation model generator of MLCad. Once you've created a model save it using using one of the new formats supported by MLCad V2.10 - GIF or JPEG (and sure - bitmap is (...) (23 years ago, 17-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad) !
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| | Re: MLCad *has* no perspective display (was Re: MLCAD wrong perspective display?
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(...) Good point. I forgot to mention this optical illusion, which is well known. Two things which are the same size but which are surrounded by visual cues that suggest that one ought to be smaller will actually not appear the same size after (...) (23 years ago, 15-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | RE: MLCad *has* no perspective display (was Re: MLCAD wrong perspective display?
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(...) Since we are so used to seeing things in perspective in real life, the isometric views can seem strange at times. For a large model we expect it to get smaller as it goes back, so in an isometric view we "see" it get bigger when it goes back (...) (23 years ago, 15-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: LGEO and MLCAD colors
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Steve: (...) Not quite right. LDraw recognises colours 0-15, 32-47 and some mixed colours up around 255 (255-510?). (...) Yes, please. Play well, Jacob -- Linux turns ten Monday. Time to celebrate. (23 years ago, 15-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | MLCad *has* no perspective display (was Re: MLCAD wrong perspective display?
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(...) These 3D views are not perspective views. They are isometric. In a perspective view, parallel lines not exactly in the plane of the viewer eventually intersect (at a vanishing point). This matches how we see things in reality, since distant (...) (23 years ago, 15-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | MLCAD wrong perspective display?
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No doubts, MLCAD is the best LCAD modeller. However, I use it since version 1.7 and I am still disturbed by display in perspective view. Basically, what is strange is that close things display thiner while distant things display larger. The reverse (...) (23 years ago, 15-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: LGEO and MLCAD colors
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Isn't the color code for green #2? I think #10 is the "solid" version of the color used for "transparent-neon-green", which would explain why the tree appears bright yellowish. (...) <snip> (23 years ago, 14-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: LGEO and MLCAD colors
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Hi, I had problems with rendering color green in L3p. Weird. I made a geen tree, which shows up alright in LDraw, Ldlite, Mlcad, L3lab, and LDView. But, when converting via l3p it renders grey in POVray, instead of green. The default color in the (...) (23 years ago, 14-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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