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(...) document whose URL is listed above. Specifically, the Licenze section: (...) OK, that's good. (...) OK, so if someone writes a program that uses these commands, they must: a. List the commands in their documentation b. Provide the URL to the (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Yes, what's needed here is NO license, not a NEW license. Michael if you're using MLCAD to bring visitors to your site in order to drum up business for your software company, that's fine. Just ask politely and we'll provide the links for (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) If your new license for puts any restrictions whatsoever on the right to use or implement your extensions, you can just as well save your own time and leave it as it is. Play well, Jacob (who might decide to act like the BOFH he really is) (22 years ago, 30-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi Michael, Just noticed that the parts list report seems to be inaccurate dealing with sub-models. If I include a sub-model more than once in the main model, it only gets counted once, also if I create a sub-model but don't include it in the main (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi, i've found some more commands in MLCad which I introduced totaly new, ... but long time ago. So there is this ROTATION command, which was used at the early days of MLCad instead of ROTSTEP. Later I learned that this conflicts with LD-Lite. So I (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) That, and the fact that MLCAD adds two 0 ROTATION statements to the header of every model file it edits. (...) Actually, only commented-out versions of the ROTATION meta-statement have appeared in parts (ie, '0 0 ROTATION'). The submit process (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Perhaps the use of the "ROTATION CENTER" meta statement in the parts library can be changed into a different, non-licensed format? The word "CENTER" breaks the standing LDraw tradition of using British English terms anyway. In my opinion it (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Uh Oh, we need some *unlicensed* documentation on this meta command. It's already used in some official parts. If I have to get permission in writing to use all the features of the official parts (or be liable for unspecified damages) I'm (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Is the ROTATION command the one that's sorta documented here? (URL) reply seems to indicate he planned on implementing it, and that was about 2 years ago, so I imagine it's been done by now. Don (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Actually, LDLite has a ROTATE command, which is different than MLCad's ROTATION command. ROTATE is literally a directive to rotate a set of command-lines around a vector by a specific angle. ROTATION seems to define a point in space around (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Uups ... you are right they are LDLite ...I'm going to correct that. Michael "Travis Cobbs" <tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com> wrote in message news:Gz5MI5.3C9@lugnet.com... (...) follow (...) now (...) that (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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The ROTATION command is a LDLITE command, not a MLCad command. You will find information about this command in the ldlite documentation I guess. Sorry for the late reply, but I was busy in the company and on holidays later. Regards, Michael "Steve (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Larry, sorry I didn't reply sooner but I was away on vacation. I guess everyone else must be too. Anyhow, I see you got my point. The whole reason for a parts license is to prevent new part authors from asserting arbitrary demands on the (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) are partially taken from LDView. As the author of LDView, I can state that they don't look familiar :-). Perhaps you meant ldlite? --Travis Cobbs (22 years ago, 12-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Err, I'm not seeing any documentation of the ROTATION meta-statement? Any chance you'll be adding that later? Steve (22 years ago, 12-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) You need to keep all the files (The model, the unofficial part's, and the part's subfiles in the same folder. The alternative is to group every thing into the same folder and make an MPD file using one of the MPD utilities foung on LDraw.org. (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Let me just say before I get started here that I think Michael has made a terrific contribution to this community with MLCAD. I just think he's a bit confused about the ramifications of his license agreement and I hope we can clear it up. (...) I (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Ok my cad model is nearing completion. But I am having problems with the 9v track and its many sub files. Evertime I try to load the track(after creating a complete track part) I get an error that tells me it cant find the sub files. Yet it still (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Um, submission of a part subjects the part to the LDraw.org license, or is intended to. The parts library is protected by an overall license, or is intended to be in the future once the license is in place (that this effort has appeared to be (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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May I say you got that wrong? The license is ment for developers going to implement the command into theire own programs. Then I would like to have some notice from where the commands originally came from. I never sayed or wrote that you have to (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I'm actually somewhat UNhappy right now. Maybe I'm a bit of a nut, but are these the first ldraw extensions that come with a lizence agreement? I admit the requirements in the agreement are probably a good procedure to follow, but why do they (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi, all people interested into the ldraw format extensions of MLCad may follow this link to download the spec in pdf format. There is no other link for now to this document then that one here, but this will follow next. (URL) reading and (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Check out Conversion 101 Tutorial here: (URL) might help you out. -Orion (22 years ago, 10-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Thanks for the help. My model now looks much better now that the transpaencys are working. Do you have any advise for rendering you MLcad files. I have Povray and L3po but it never seemed to render my model. Sorry for he Noob questions, and (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Welcome David, Here is the train nose: (URL) is the straight 9V track (also download the subfiles): (URL) is the 9V track crossing (also download the subfiles): (URL) access transparent colors in MLCad, click "More" button in the color (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Take a look at the Parts Tracker on LDraw.org (URL) nose (URL) track (URL) are unofficial, so part numbers, orientation and origin may change before their official release. (...) Transparency is just a colour code - regular colour code+32 - so (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Ok I just finished a big project last night using MLCad. I soon found that there was a few missing parts. The first is a train nose, (URL) Second 9v track, curves and straights. Also some of the parts I wanted in a transparency. But there seemed to (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"William Howard" <william@howard-fami...rld.co.uk> wrote in message news:Gy0y49.GE4@lugnet.com... (...) work (...) the (...) that (...) cures (...) If you right click in the window, the bottom menu selction should toggle scroll bars on and off. It (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Very strange, but just finished transfering home Lego stuff (Win 98) to work laptop (Win2k Pro) and all works fine except there are no scroll bars in the 4 viewing windows in MLCAD 2.12 when in F3 mode (or any other mode for that matter). I (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I know this is still missing, I'm going to write one in the next days and then I'll post it here for you. Sorry, Michael "Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:GxJxM6.3xx@lugnet.com... (...) handle? (...) produced (...) at (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) quick (...) [x-posted to .mlcad] In MLCad v.2.12, you can select a step, click Edit>Select>Same Items ("Select Same Items" on the movement bar), and press delete! HTH, --Ryan Amateur radio call sign: kb1fob E-mail: ryanjf@ifriendly.com (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Just to close the loop here, I do not use MLCad image generation at all any more. I have switched to LDLite completely for rendering. With the option to clip the image to the size needed and the option to control line thickness, it meets all (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Larry Pieniazek writes: SNIP (...) This was written over a year ago and now MLCAD offers a line width setting. However, I noticed that enlarging the line width *only* thickens the lines which were already discernable in the (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Kevin Wilson" <kwilson_tccs@compuserve.com> wrote in message news:GxJtuz.GFC@lugnet.com... (...) in (...) ldliterc.dat (...) Image resolution comes into play in two ways: Construction step images and part list images. For construction images, you (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Kevin L. Clague wrote in message ... (...) Very cool indeed! How high a resolution / how large an image size will it be able to handle? Any limits? Will it honor changes in line color defined in the ldliterc.dat file like LDLite does? Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I'm working on a program that automatically converts model descriptions in LDRAW DAT format and creates step by step construction and part list images using L3P and POV-Ray. I'm almost ready for a beta release. My program, called LPub, honors LDRAW (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I think you could make a big dent in that one by keeping the library in a jar or zip file and using popen() with unzip. (...) I've actually used it at that resolution for small models and to look at parts. I think the pyramid picture on the (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, the parts library all by itself is 21.1 megs (at least the one I have is). While this will technically fit on a 64 meg device (and maybe even on a 32 meg device), I doubt too many people would want to devote such a large percentage of (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) What are the requirements, or at least *suggested* requirements for MLCAD? I'm thinking even something like the HP Jornada should be sufficient. (All right, I know that the Jornada is different than a Palm) Will MLCAD work on Windows CE? (URL) (22 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Bob Hayes" <bobhayes1@aol.com> wrote in message news:GwGrqK.H3y@lugnet.com... (...) (URL) - he has a chapter explaining how he makes instructions. There is lots of (...) to (...) email (...) I'm working on a constructopedia type book for Syngress (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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