 | | A few question about editing in MLCad
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Hello, I'm having a little trouble too do some editing in MLCAD (v2.12). Question 1: How too make a bend on a hose, part 79.dat (Technic Ribbed Hose) or 78.dat (complete 120LDU long)? With 79.dat I can put piece by piece and just rotate each new (...) (22 years ago, 14-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Rotating and Aligning Elements in MLCad
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thanks for the great headsup... -tk "richard marchetti" <blueofnoon@aol.com> wrote in message news:H2CKpt.DLy@lugnet.com... (...) great (...) on (...) normally (...) and (...) way (...) for (...) follows): (...) with (...) hassle (...) just (...) (...) (22 years ago, 13-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Rotating and Aligning Elements in MLCad
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Hey Y'all: I know this is answered elsewhere, but it's a hassle to look for. As great as MLCad is (for me it is "THEE" CAD tool for LDraw action), the documentation is just not there in some ways. Recently I had cause to mess with an angled element (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Weird Logo Issue at L3P Quality Level 3
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(...) Something about MLCad that's worth noting is that fact that when you add a new part is uses the same rotation matrix as the part above it. Therefore, if you mirrored the part above the part you just added, the part you added is mirrored as (...) (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: file type registration
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thanks a lot that worked just fine. -tk "Tim Courtney" <tim@zacktron.com> wrote in message news:H1qJHx.A88@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) (22 years ago, 1-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: file type registration
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(...) I had this problem and it turned out it was because there was a long name in the path, ie a directory > 8 characters or with space etc in it. I changed back to using old DOS 8.3 directory names (to MLcad) and it worked. HTH ROSCO (22 years ago, 1-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: file type registration
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(...) I don't know about it repeating itself like that, but you can turn off checking for file type registration. Go into Settings > General > Change and at the bottom left of the window you will see a check box next to "register file types." (...) (22 years ago, 1-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | file type registration
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im running windows 2000 and get an error on startup that doesn't seem to affect anything. It says : MLCad is not (properly) registered for it's file types. Register now? yes or no. I click yes everytime, but it doesn't seem to actually do it. any (...) (22 years ago, 1-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Native Language Support
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Hi Ludo, "ludo soete" <ludo.soete@village.uunet.be> wrote in message news:H1MH00.D1L@lugnet.com... (...) select (...) is (...) MLCad is using a language dll and an autodetect mechanism to load additional languages. For example there is already a (...) (22 years ago, 31-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: ** QUAD2DAT ** version 0.9.4 released **
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(...) Sorry for any confusion on that point, I knew that but maybe didn't state it very clearly... the initial error is being introduced there. But the tool is SO useful that it's worth working around, hence my questions... I think I've got it now. (...) (22 years ago, 31-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: ** QUAD2DAT ** version 0.9.4 released **
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(...) "Bogus commands", eh? Interesting choice of words. However since Parts Tracker is going to complain about any unofficial or undocumented meta commands in submitted parts, it'd be nice if MLCAD didn't insert these 0 ROTATION lines unless they (...) (22 years ago, 30-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: ** QUAD2DAT ** version 0.9.4 released **
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(...) no, your both wrong. the rotating/mirror problem is within q2dat. -bug report- when doing a 1 x 2 tile q2dat mirrors your quads. when doing certain panels or bricks, like for instance. do a 1 x 4 x 3 panel and make a quad in it. then save it. (...) (22 years ago, 30-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: ** QUAD2DAT ** version 0.9.4 released **
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(...) OK, this isn't because of the "rotation" of the parts, it's because MLCad is inserting bogus commands at the top of the file 0 ROTATION CENTER 0 0 0 1 "Custom" 0 ROTATION CONFIG 0 0 It also is changing the value of the filename (removing the (...) (22 years ago, 30-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Native Language Support
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Hi Michael, Is it possible to have more language selections available? Now we can select between German & English. My kids love to make there own buildings using MLCAD, but they don't understand German or English. How are those language files made (...) (22 years ago, 29-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: DAT files: Do No Harm
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(...) This sounds counter-productive to me. Judging from the official LDraw files, it appears that many of the original files follow these guidelines with respect to indentation: o Comments are not indented o All other lines are indented by one (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: DAT files: Do No Harm
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(...) These 2 are the 2 biggest problems I have with MLCAD. For some reason MLCad changes the filename in the NAME comment block to an .ldr extension even if the source file is .dat. As more of a part author than a model builder, this is very (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: mlcad.log files filling my disk
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(...) I run WinME (on AMD Tbird 1.4, 512MB DDR) and I've had a couple of DATs with many thousands of parts not LEGO models, I was using MLCad to redesign my living room on a 1 stud to 1 inch scale!), and never had a problem with it. I find WinME is (...) (22 years ago, 22-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: mlcad.log files filling my disk
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(...) Bosh. Win98 is perfectly fine for this kind of thing; MLCad worked just fine for me for large models with a similar piece count and RAM size. It was a little slow, but it worked just fine. That being said, it looks like Michael has found the (...) (22 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: mlcad.log files filling my disk
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Wow 2000 parts now there you problem try not to make big models make them smaller or divided that models in to 8 dat or ldr files of 250 parts each so that way windows 98 SE can work with out pain is a crapy os I don't recomember to anyone 9x or ME (...) (22 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: mlcad.log files filling my disk
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(...) Windows 98 Second Edition. Memory, ummm (the machine is at home), I think 64M with a spare gig . But it is a 3 year-old laptop so that means it's probably a bit light on everything (CPU, memory, disk), but it is sufficient for most of my (...) (22 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCAD not working...
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"Markham Carroll" <mc_booga@hotpop.com> wrote in message news:H15Iu8.86y@lugnet.com... <snippet> Um... I found out what was wrong. I used to have two hard drives in my computer, and when I took the old one out, the drive letters changed and my (...) (22 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCAD not working...
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When you are on a NT system make sure you have access to that path and that you can write to the registry. On XP this requires admin rights - or to be the owner of the computer. Michael "Markham Carroll" <mc_booga@hotpop.com> wrote in message (...) (22 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: mlcad.log files filling my disk
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Hi Kerry, there is a known problem with MLCad on none NT machines which will be fixed in the next release. There is nothing what you can do against this message yet, but MLCad itself is still fully operational. You can delete the log file from time (...) (22 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: mlcad.log files filling my disk
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(...) What OS are you using? How much memory? I've seen *huge* models (>10000 parts) work fine in MLcad, so I doubt thats the problem. ROSCO (22 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCAD not working...
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"Orion Pobursky" <bilthefish@IHATESPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message news:H15HKz.3o4@lugnet.com... (...) this. (...) LDraw (...) I can't start MLCAD, but the error message lets me change the path. It still doesn't work. -- Markham Carroll (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCAD not working...
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(...) Try this: In MLCad, go to Settings->General->Change... Check and make sure the Lego Base Path is the directory where you have LDraw installed. -Orion (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | MLCAD not working...
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I am getting the error "Invalid path (no Parts and/or P dir found)!" The program has been working for months, and all of a sudden I'm getting this. The P and Parts directories are in the same folder, and the parts.lst is there too. What is going (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: mlcad.log files filling my disk
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(...) detail (...) I ran MLCAD again and opened my model and started to manipulate it. It became grindlingly slow while engaging in furious disk activity. This time I managed to kill the MLCAD process before it consumed my entire disk, but the (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | mlcad.log files filling my disk
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I downloaded MLCAD on the weekend and have been trying to build my first model. All seemed to be going well, but gradually the program started running very slowly. At first I just assumed that as my model got larger, the program got slower (and my (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: mpd file questions
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Great! I tried it and it works. Thanks Patty "Steve Bliss" <partsref@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:H13K1H.p7@lugnet.com... (...) file (...) the (...) subassemblies (...) don't (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: mpd file questions
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(...) You could open your files in a text editor, copy the code from your sub-mpd's and paste them on the end of your main mpd. As long as you don't use the same subfile name(s) in different mpd's, it should work. Steve (22 years ago, 19-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | mpd file questions
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I want to take an mpd file then add several mpd files to it. The mpd file import does not recognize mpd files. It only allows dat and ldr. Also the models group does not list mpds so there is no way to put several mpds together. I am working with (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Can I move around within the windows???
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"Orion Pobursky" <bilthefish@IHATESPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message news:H0wzAr.88t@lugnet.com... (...) something (...) the (...) Thanks! (...) sure (...) of (...) An easier way, which I didn't notice anywhere in the documentation, is to simply hold (...) (22 years ago, 16-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Can I move around within the windows???
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(...) If I understand you right, you want to be able to zoom in and then pan around. To do this, hit the plus '+' key on your keyboard keypad (make sure number lock is turned off) until you reach the desired zoom level. To pan around, click on the (...) (22 years ago, 16-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Can I move around within the windows???
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Hi everyone! I'm EXTREMELY new (just hours) to MLCAD and I was wondering if there is a way that I can move around within a window. Like if I'm putting something together can I just move to the far end of the model instead of having the entire model (...) (22 years ago, 16-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: New version of MLCad command spec
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(...) Isn't the only reasonable way to handle that, to have clear version numbers on the specifications, as well as insisting that any »compatible with MLCAD« text includes the version number of the implemented specification? Play well, Jacob -- (...) (22 years ago, 14-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Fatal Error
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This is an internal error message indicating memory problems. When reseting the stub memory is allocated, if that fails it means MLCad can no longer display anything on it's window and terminates. This one is realy bad since MLCad can deal with low (...) (22 years ago, 14-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: New version of MLCad command spec
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(...) Then again, if it's all in the "do not delete this notice" section, Michael's concerns will be addressed. Here's some suggested verbiage: (...) Steve (22 years ago, 12-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Fatal Error
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What does a Fatal Error - Terminating Stub.Reset(...) ! message mean while starting MLCad? After a reboot, no problem anymore... Greetingz.... Sjaacko (22 years ago, 12-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: New version of MLCad command spec
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(...) Put a version number and a publication date at the top of the spec along with a recommendation to visit your website for the most up to date version of the specification. You may even want to provide an email address and suggest people email (...) (22 years ago, 9-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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