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Hi, quickly get to (URL) and retrieve the latest brand new version of MLCad! Have fun .... Michael (23 years ago, 1-Dec-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Arctic tracks dat?
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If you're in MLCad look in the Other Parts - Others category (it's under the alphabetical listings). There all sorts of useful parts in there :-) Will Bricksburg Fire Department: (URL) Bricksburg Depot: (URL) (23 years ago, 30-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: umb 'ol me
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"poorpip" <poorpip99@netscape.net> wrote in message news:GnJKL2.Kpo@lugnet.com... (...) only (...) stumpted (...) Have you used the Scan Parts option off the File menu? So long as the parts are in the correct place (in the PARTS dir under the LDRAW (...) (23 years ago, 29-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hey guys!! I'm just downloaded all the stuff I need to use ldraw and mlcad only one problem. . . The mlcad isn't reading my parts list! I am really stumpted here so ANY help would be nice. -poorpip (23 years ago, 29-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Bill, nice work ! Perhaps you can model the electronics some times. I noticed that rendering time rises if you put something into the transparent model (or even if you only use a transparent model). What about modeling 2 Versions? One for general (...) (23 years ago, 22-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Vision Command Camera, Mindstorms IR Tower [DAT]
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Rainer, Thank you for your suggestions. I added the lens like you suggested: 0 Electric Camera USB TrBlue/TrDkGray 0 Name: 32561c01.dat 0 Author: William J. Wood 0 Unofficial Model 0 Note: This is the camera from the Vision Command set. 1 33 0 0 0 1 (...) (23 years ago, 22-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Request: Recent used elements tool
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Hi I am wondering if it is possible to have a window containing only the used elements in the .dat file. I know that the ascii version is available. However, finding a previously used element in a rather big .dat file can take a while. I make a lot (...) (23 years ago, 22-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Wishes for next version
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(...) I too would like the ability to easily zoom in more. Assigning this to the mouse scroll wheel would be even better. I also have the same problem moving things when setting the grid to less than 1 LDU. A couple more requests: When moving a type (...) (23 years ago, 22-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi Bill, thanks a lot ! Sorry for beeing such late with answering. I like your model very much. I did'nt know that there are such good transparent parts ! I've got some suggestions. (Please remember I'm new to MLCAD and i don't know the effort of (...) (23 years ago, 21-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Arctic tracks dat?
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(...) (URL) Geert-Jan Meeuwissen used it here. I would sure like to know where he got the dat, or how he made it. hmmmm. Thanks anyway. ~Trev (23 years ago, 17-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Rainer, I have a model of the Vision Command Camera that I developed. It can be found at the LDraw.org Parts Tracker. Go to: (URL) download the following files: 32561c01 Electric Camera USB TrBlue/TrDkGray 32561 ~Electric Camera USB Top 32562 (...) (23 years ago, 16-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Arctic tracks dat?
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(...) I don't think the Arctic-style treads have been modelled yet. Steve (23 years ago, 16-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Arctic tracks dat?
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Greetings! Can anyone direct me to a .dat of the treads/tracks from the arctic sets/mission control set? ~Trev (23 years ago, 16-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hello all, I'm new to MLCAD and did nothing else the last nights :) I'm impressed. I did not find the pieces i mentioned in the subject. Does anyone know if this parts allready exist ? Thanks in advance, Rainer (23 years ago, 15-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Wishes for next version
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Hello! Because i do part authoring with ML-Cad i would like to have the ability to zoom muuuuuch more than onl 300%. Sometimes i need like 2000%-8000% and more. It makes it alot easier to determine the position of points. So it is a lot of trial and (...) (23 years ago, 15-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Report Pieces?
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Tim David writes: <SNIP> (...) Funny, this one is in since the very first version of MLCad an nobody every seems to use this feature ... Will be fixed with the next version. However the last version can always be downloaded from (...) (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Report Pieces?
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(...) Another bug seem be in the dimensions report. The height in imperial seems to report a wrong figure, for example picking a random model gives the dimensions Units Width Depth Height Studs 9 22 28 Metric 7.20 16.88 8.68 Imperial 3.1 6.9 8.8 (...) (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Mike Walsh" <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:GMH029.2zJ@lugnet.com... (...) my (...) not (...) Your are totally right, this is a bug - thanks for reporting it. Will be fixed with the next release. Michael (23 years ago, 11-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Report Pieces?
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I am running MLCARD 2.10 and having problems exporting the parts list for my MPD. When I select the "SubModel" checkbox the parts list file produced does not contain any information in the description fields. If I don't select "SubModel" the parts (...) (23 years ago, 8-Nov-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Rubber belts
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Hi all, is there anybody out there who´s able to explain me how to implement rubber belts in my ML-CAD drawings? The only way I am able to do it is, if I have completed my ML-CAD drawings and created pictures of the several steps I can implement (...) (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: custom 73590a hose flexible
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(...) If you know emacs, try Fredrik Glöckner's emacs ldraw mode. Even if you don't know emacs, he has good instructions at (URL) instructions for doing hoses (and bezier curves in general) are about halfway down at (URL) used it for the hoses on my (...) (23 years ago, 29-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | custom 73590a hose flexible
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I have been trying to make custom bent flexible hose part 73590a using parts 750 (hose flexible end 1 x 1 x2/3 with tabs) 754 (hose flexible segment link section)755 hose flexible segment end section)and 756 hose flexible segment centre section) (...) (23 years ago, 29-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: View matrix used for default 3D view expressed in LDLite terms
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:GLnxLM.G8G@lugnet.com... (...) Sure this works, but don't load it into MLCad then you get again a different view :-) Michael (23 years ago, 26-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: View matrix used for default 3D view expressed in LDLite terms
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(...) Thanks! to two decimals this matches the other set given here. Appreciate the confirmation! PS I like Steve's idea! (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: View matrix used for default 3D view expressed in LDLite terms
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:GLL8IB.CHF@lugnet.com... (...) selected (...) Sorry for replying so late, but I was pritty busy the last days ... MLCad uses a matrix which results from rotating over X = 23 deg., Y = (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: View matrix used for default 3D view expressed in LDLite terms [DAT]
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(...) A general, reproducible, adjustable, redo-able solution to this is to write up a couple of LDLite's ROTATION commands, and then translate the commands to standard LDraw gdl. For example, to duplicate MLCAD's view, write: 0 ROTATE 23 1 0 0 0 (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: View matrix used for default 3D view expressed in LDLite terms
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(...) Dunno if it helps, but you can use L3P and find the view you like. The view matrix which corresponds to that view can then be found under the Test -> Statistics menu item. Fredrik (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Great, thanks! But I sort of (as Kevin does) need the way to generate the rotation matrix from a dialed in rotation value... if someone has a spread that does that, it would be nifty. (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Just my 2¢: The 3D angles (in degrees) in MLCad can be found under Settings>General>Cha...>Documents tab. They are indeed 23 and 45 degrees. --Ryan (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Those numbers are the values of a rotation matrix about the X, Y and Z axis. (Search for "rotation matrix" on google.com for an explanation.) The -A syntax has been around since ldraw.exe and is documented in ldraw.doc as well as the ldlite (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message ... (...) 895 (...) What I'd like to know is exactly what each of those numbers stands for (X rotation? what? Is it in th help somewhere and I missed it?) so next time I need a custom one I don't have to spend an (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Yes, that's it. Or so close as not to make a difference. THANK YOU!!!! This may actually be a candidate for the MLCad helps unless I'm the only person who ever wanted to render at the same rotation MLCad uses. (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Yeah, you're right, it looks more like a 45 degree turn followed by about a 23 degree tilt. Try this: -A0.707104,0,0.70710...1,0.650895 (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: View matrix used for default 3D view expressed in LDLite terms
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(...) If it's just differently rounded then that's not it. (the one Don gave wasn't it either I don't think, the initial rotation should be 45 degrees rather than 60, I think... ) If I could get MLCad to tell me what matrix it was using for a (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) We had a discussion about the "natural" and "oblique" matrices about a year ago where it turned out the "natural" matrix did some rather UN-natural shearing. (URL) mlcad is using this matrix: 0.5,0,0.866025,0.433...5,0.433013 Which is a 60 (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: View matrix used for default 3D view expressed in LDLite terms
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If you look into LDraw.ini, you'll find the post: Natural=0.625,0,1.07...1.25,0,2.5 quite similar to the one you asked about (I call it Larry here): Larry=0.63,0.00,1.08...,0.00,2.50 They're just differently rounded. /Tore (Tip of today: You may add (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | View matrix used for default 3D view expressed in LDLite terms
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Does anyone know the values for the default 3D view that MLCad uses expressed similar to -A0.63,0.00,1.08,0.5...,0.00,2.50 (this is the parm string to LDLite that gives you "Natural" if you selected it from the LDLite view selection pulldown) It's (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MPD files showing mixed up
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Hi Jeroen, MLCad does currently not support including mpd's into other files! The result when doing it are uncontrolled. Alternativly you can extract all the files from the mpd and import them into another project. Regards, Michael (23 years ago, 13-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | MPD files showing mixed up
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Hi, I searched the newsgroup but didn't find this, so I hope I on't ask something for the 1000th time: I created a MPD-model (sik.mpd). Everything OK with that, converting to POV goes well so no problems there. But when I place the file ("add part" (...) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCad and the LDraw package
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Ryan, In your case there is no need for the base package. In normal cases it's required in order to have all the parts of the base package and the updates. Therefor MLCad checks the following in order to validate a "base path". Unless you fullfill (...) (23 years ago, 7-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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