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"Tony Alexander" <tw0nst3r@startrek.net> skrev i meddelandet news:H3wHo7.284@lugnet.com... (...) Glad to hear that! Don't forget to check in on the Home Page sometimes, there may be a newer version available, and sometimes I even update the (...) (22 years ago, 13-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) First, a note of thanx to all who've replied and offered help. I followed the instructions given at LDraw.org, first installing ldraw027.exe, then installing complete.exe, then running makelist. I've not tried to Scan Parts, so I will try (...) (22 years ago, 13-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Yes but MLCad won't run unless LDraw is installed, therefore I assumed that he had downloaded Ldraw but not the updates (which is a common mistake) or had downloaded complete.zip but had not used Scan Parts or MakeList. -Orion (22 years ago, 13-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Just to reinforce what Anders posted, the "complete" file is actually the "complete parts update", not the "complete parts library". You have to install LDraw (ldraw027.exe) first, then install complete.exe. Get the original ldraw package (...) (22 years ago, 13-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Orion Pobursky" <bilthefish@IHATESPAMyahoo.com> skrev i meddelandet news:H3v7v0.9HK@lugnet.com... (...) LDRAW release. You first need to download, and install, the original LDRAW package, then install 'Complete'. I got bitten by this when I cleaned (...) (22 years ago, 12-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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If you don't find what you are looking for using my previous post, look here for the part you need: (URL) search LUGNet -Orion (22 years ago, 12-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Go to the LDraw.org website here: (URL) to the complete updates section and download the file and follow the directions to install. After you do that, open MLCad and the File menu chose Scan Parts. This will have MLCad look in the LDRAW\PARTS (...) (22 years ago, 12-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I'm not a programmer, and I'm new to MLCad. I'm just wondering why MLCad's "complete" parts list...isn't. I downloaded Jamie Neufeld's pod.dat, and when I went to look at it, found that a part file was missing. It still drew most of the model, (...) (22 years ago, 12-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: REALLY stupid question
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You know, I noticed this myself. At first I thought I was doing something wrong. Then I thought that maybe he only implemented a short (1 action) memory for undo. Sadly, I finally realized that he probably didn't get to code in an undo. Undo's (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Maybe.... I have been using MLCAD for about a year now, and have never really had a need to address this problem. But I'm doing some large models, and can't get the UNDO function to work. It won't work on any of my installations- and I have ML on (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Front wheel drive with suspension
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Hello? I have made some steering mechanism that I want you all to have a look at. Can anybody make it smaller? (URL) Ldraw file can be found at (URL) have just seen one way to make it 2-knob smaller in with. By placing the difrential "outside" the (...) (22 years ago, 1-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: searching for dat-file for part x68.dat
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(...) I searched LUGNET and didn't find it either. I'll make it if noone else has. (...) For Technic go to Jim Hughes's Technica at: (URL) others, Peeron lists the year a set came out so just find the earliest year in the list of sets that have that (...) (22 years ago, 1-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hey, all! I've just been playing around, trying to learn a little about MLCAD, and liked the microscale stuff by Paul Hertzog and Jeremy Sproat. So I virtually made a few buildings and locations just for fun. Please LMKWYT. Folder's at: (URL) and (...) (22 years ago, 1-Oct-02, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I've got the 8461 Williams F1 Team Racer set and there are some of these Technic Liftarm 1x2 - x68.dat parts there. Where can I get the .dat file for that part? I've searched on www.ldraw.org but it is not there. Another queestion; Where can I (...) (22 years ago, 30-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) You should download and use the revised part: (URL) (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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[X-posted to .mlcad] (...) While I can't help because of what Orion revealed here (I'm no programmer!), perhaps Michael Lachmann can help. I have discovered that a simple way to (as a user) rotate around one object's origin is to select the origin (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Thanks, Damien! It looked like they were rendering OK, but I just wasn't sure. James (22 years ago, 19-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Hi James, Don't worry. "Part Unknown" in MLCad only means the part is not in the ldraw/parts directory. So even official draw primitives are "Part Unknown" because they are in ldraw/p directory. Otherwise primitives display correctly and no (...) (22 years ago, 18-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I have not delved much into the inner workings of parts, but I'm using Thomas Burger's x814 6x6 "bubble" windscreen in a model. I took his file and included it in my MPD as another part. When I view the part (or open the x814.dat file by itself), (...) (22 years ago, 18-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Øyvind Steinnes writes: I perceive Question 2 as a general LDRAW format issue not limited to MLCAD. I'm adding support for this and related issues to LPub (my automatic building instruction generator). The format looks like (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) You are going to have to do several LDraw files to show this. This will be a sub-assembly of a complex part. Look at examples that LEGO has done for their BIs. The usualyy do a 1,2 combo showing how this is done and then point to an arrow of (...) (22 years ago, 15-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) These are new and as far as I know noone has made them. I'd give it a go but unfontunately I haven't recieved my set yet. (...) Go to Peeron for part numbers: (URL) Parts Tracker is also a good place to look: (URL) a last resort search for the (...) (22 years ago, 14-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hello, As I started to make the building instruction for the 8461 - Williams F1 Team Racer set, I first got a problem by editing some parts (bendt ribbed hoses), now that is solved by some utility from "Orion Pobursky" (Thanx). And Orion has even (...) (22 years ago, 14-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) BTW, you can use whatever portion of the coding you want from my file of the Silver Champion. ( (URL) ) -Orion (22 years ago, 14-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Two ways to make these: 1.) Download LDDesignPad and use my Make DAT Curves Plugin. LDDesignPad found here: (URL) Plugin found here: (URL) Use Fredrik Glockner's LDraw Mode for GNU Emacs LDraw Mode found here: (URL) (22 years ago, 14-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.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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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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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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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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(...) 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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(...) "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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(...) 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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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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