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(...) Or use HTML help in Windows whcih im sure that the MFC suppourts if not the SDK? (...) DAT->PostScript (...) GhostScript? - I think theres a windows verison. (...) Java 2 has Java3d - Or you could use VRML + Java via the External Authorign (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Please find below my comments .... (...) This should not be a problem, will try to make it ... (...) This is generally possible, but keep in mind that this might be a slower thing. (...) I will try something to make it better, and which works into (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) And how. Click to zoom, but only sometimes? Yeesh. AR is a great program in general and kudos to Adobe for making it available free, but that needs to be fixed. (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I agree with this - it's one of the fundamental user interface design guidelines, and something that has tripped me up when using MLCad. (...) Ugh, you said to remove the modes and then put them back in! (with an alternate means of (...) (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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On Sat, 19 Feb 2000 08:13:07 GMT, Steve Demlow <demlow@visi.com> wrote: My suggestion, I want to be able to take a submodel and change the center of rotation so I can build a space ship door and be able to rotate it along the hing joint. ^_^ (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I've been using MLCad and having a lot of fun with it. It's a great program. I do have a number of suggestions that could (IMHO!) make it even better. - Part selection: Put a text entry field between the available parts and the preview area that (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Help! I've tried to load several different models into MLCAD that use the "hose" subparts, and EVERY TIME, MLCAD responds with the message "The file 754.DAT was not found. Continue loading?" for EACH AND EVERY occurrence of 754.dat. I've tried (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I think that in some version of something, it should give you the ability to add your own customized pictures or stickers to put on either figures or just whatever you want. (i accidentaly put this on the main board, i don't think it matters (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Yeah! That's EXACTLY the problem I'm having! The transport door is one big dat file and since MLCad wants to rotate on the center of the box and doesn't actually give me a choice to move where it wants to roate elsewhere. Kya (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Yeah, that makes sense, I'll have to give it a try. (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I'm not critizing the part authors. Not at all. Sorry if my english could be misunderstood. I'm grateful for the parts as anyone else. As I wrote: I was just guessing. I have never made a part ... yet :-) I was just pointing out, that from my point (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) LIGHT.DAT, >which is nice because it consists of nothing but six lines representing (...) IIRC, LIGHT.DAT is included in the standard LDraw download. At least, it's used in my tutorial[1], and I never had anyone complain :) Personally, I (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Expanding on what Jeremy wrote, the <0 0 0> point for pieces has been the subject of much discussion. Part of the reason things seem so odd in MLCAD is that MLCAD rotates on the center of the bounding box, not on the <0 0 0> point. Steve (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) It's actually pretty simple, once you get the hang of using a couple of tricks. First of all, you want to *visually* define 0,0,0 in your submodel. To this end, insert a 3070.DAT (1x1 tile) located at 0,0,0; its top surface is centered upon (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Alright, that's what I was talking about, rotating submodels. Like I've got a 3x4 hinge plat with some of those hexagonal pieces at the end to make a door (think Message Intercept Base) and I want to set the submodel's rotational axis along (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Be careful criticizing the parts authors when you don't know what you're discussing. They've put a helluva lot more thought into this than you have. For example, at which logical rotation point should 0,0,0 be put? A corner? The centerline for (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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This must be a problem directed to the partwriters, or what?. I have never made a part, but I think parts must have a 0,0,0 which should be at a logical rotationpoint. But if they place 0,0,0 more or less at random, you have no way of knowing where (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) If a line doesn't have enough orientation numbers, LDraw will usually choke when it tries to treat the filename as a number. One important thing about LDraw and linebreaks: once it's read enough data to complete a command, LDraw ignores (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I was wondering if there's a way to change the location of the rotational axis in MLCad. I know LDraw does it, or else I wouldn't be asking. Anyway, to give you an idea as to what I'm rambling about, I have a 2x8 plate with a 2x2 turntable at one (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Yes, I saw it too - was a rounding problem caused by a small speedup, and could already fix it so that its working again with 1.8. I will try to find another way of reporting load-errors .... I thougt to report errors just once per part and I think (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I see that missing triangle also, usually on 3298.dat. It renders fine in POVRay though. Lots of ldraw parts have issues like this when you convert them to .dxf and import them into 3d studio max also. Backface cull only does so much. Bummer. -- (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) IIRC, LDraw treats carriage returns just like any other whitespace, so line wrapping in LDraw has no effect. However, this would probably lead to problems with lines which truly contain errors (eg, not enough orientation numbers)... --Bram (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I don't think it should fix the linewrap problem automatically. But it could show the two lines and let the user decide. -- Djelle alias Mogens Sørensen ___...___ E-mail - Home: Djelle@Get2Net.dk ICQ: 38701158 Web: (URL) Poindexter (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) 3D-modelview-window. You know, (...) only on my computer? (...) I just upgraded to 1.7 and noticed this too (wasn't present in 1.6). Slightly distracting, but no big deal. It's interesting that these parts look fine in the 3D view. Will Visit (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Is there any way to program it to attempt to fix line wrapping errors? It seems to me that if it encounters and error, it could attempt to remove the carriage return and see if it continues to load properly. I would think that would be very helpful, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I have just finished looking through some posted dat-files. And of course they had errors. Mainly because of linewrap. MLcad announces politely that there is an error. But why not tell the linenumber too?!. That would make errorfinding a lot easier. (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi, I've written a very simple but useable hose bending spreadsheet. You enter the angle you want i.e 180 degrees gives a semi-circle arc. The length is consistent. I uploaded a model 6586-98 earlier today which shows its output. I'm trying to (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I (...) enable such a (...) selections. This means if (...) there are more (...) Cool! I guess I'll be looking for version 1.8 soon then :-) (...) I (...) I (...) Didn't think so. Another reason for me to grab the upcomming 1.8. (...) upper (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Michael Lachmann skrev i meddelandet ... (...) I see it on Win98 too! Ooops, that's version 1.6 I'm using - time to get a new one... <downloading> <testing a little> Not seen it yet in 1.7 but who knows? The best fix is to drop C++ and MFC and (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Suggestion: I add an option to the settings where you can enable such a feature. If enabled I zoom to the center of all selections. This means if there is only one part selected, I zoom to it's center. If there are more parts I zoom to the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) just zoom this view (...) valid. But you also (...) in this mode. (...) because it will be (...) I can't help but think that I speak for the majority when I say that when I click on the zoom button I want it to use the currently selected part (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) When you zoom by right clicking in one of the views you just zoom this view and the current center remains the same. When you use the zoom mode to zoom views the same thing is valid. But you also have the option to zoom while holding the shift (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I am using a pentium 133 and still pleased. However, my monitor is 14 inch and i have some minor problems with the building views. It seems to me that, whenever i rescale th same center of the model is selected. So going to a larger scale some parts (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Good idea! I will try my best :-) Michael (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I think it would be great if you could sort the parts list in the upper window by the column headings. That way I could sort by color, get all my blue pieces in a row, select them all easily and then change their color with just a few mouse clicks. (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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You can also change the viewangel when making steps. Use "add rotation step" and set the angels. If you add several "rotation steps" in the end of the file, you can view the complete model from your different defined angels. -- Med venlig hilsen (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Uuuupps, this should work ... I will have a look at this ... Michael (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) more often you can (...) color-button and (...) I LIKE this. Do you think you can fix the pop-up color names so that they display the customized color instead of the original color? Thanks, Will (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Yes that should work. And if you use transparent colors more often you can customize your color-toolbox by rightclicking on the color-button and selecting a different color. Michael (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) modify the default 3D-viewing-angle in the MLCad settings before creating the pictures. Michael (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) like I used to on (...) I had this difficulty too :-) Click on the "More" button to bring up the color dialog box. Click on the slider to the right of that dialog box to access the transparent colors. Hope that helps, Will (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Having loaded MLCad I can't select transparent colours like I used to on V1.5. Any suggestions as to what I've done. (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I too was just playing around and realized you can't "snap" any angle besides 3-D. Am I too missing something?? Brett (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Nah. The only VB concern is if outgoing messages will be translated down to single-byte codes from the VB default double-byte. But if it doesn't happen automatically, the data can be filtered through a byte array first. Steve (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Steve Bliss skrev i meddelandet ... (...) Well, I supposed I asked for it :-)) -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Steve Bliss skrev i meddelandet <+PCaOHXM4TXRXiZv7pF...ax.com>... (...) assuming (...) only (...) Not really, assuming a very long message *really* works, but I suppose there is no reason why it shouldn't. Multi-message is always more complicated (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Well there you go then. (...) I have a perfect record. I've never been turned down when I asked for a part to be created. Before you attribute that to my godhood, I should point out that I've never asked. :-) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Nope, not to lcdp. Only postings of part files should go there (but follow-ups to part-postings are allowed). To request parts, post to lugnet.cad or lugnet.cad.dev. Historically, requesting parts has been a low-percentage game. But sometimes (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Hmm. Keep a list of field names in a text file. This list maps the field names in various inventory lists to the actual field names. Ex: Part,Part PartID,Part PartNo,Part Name,Name Desc,Name Color,Color Colour,Color Quantity,Quantity (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) The second approach went beyond the event horizon. (...) One long message with line separators. As long as WM_COPYDATA permits, assuming WM_COPYDATA specifies a limit. <reads doc> Yeah, there's a limit. We can only have 2^32 bytes in the (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) All the official parts can be downloaded from (URL) and pre-release parts are often posted to lugnet.cad.dat.parts Specifically the bow and stern sections of the large hulls have yet to be done, but some of the new SW parts have recently been (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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yes that helped, thank you. and yes they were LDraw Pieces I was looking for. Just wondering If/Where I could download them. (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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What kind of help do you need, it wasn't clear to me. (...) Yes. Before you installed MLCad you should have obtained and installed the latest parts files. When a new update comes out you update your parts files as usual, then run a utility function (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I now have succesfuly downloaded and installed MLCad. It is a great program. I assume since MLCad uses the LDraw parts that I can download the updates for LDraw and somehow be able to update my parts file. Help would be appriciated. Also I am (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Steve Bliss skrev i meddelandet ... (...) (where's the second approach?) (...) information. (...) Of course! Why didn't *I* think of that? (message type 2) (...) as (...) parts, (...) One long string with line separators? Or a multi-message approach (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I like that idea. (...) Yep. The idea is for LDAO to be both a source and sink for dragged parts. (...) Two approaches: 1. Allow multiple formats for the string being passed in the WM_COPYDATA message. One format is the one you're already (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ok here are the real minimum hardware requirements for MLCad (V1.7 Release 2): - Any computer running with Windows 95/98 or NT - Harddisk mainly depends on the operating system plus arround 100 MB (for dat files and swap-space) - Graphic card (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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It will probably work but you will HATE it at that speed. (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) As I stated before, the computer is a 486 66MHz. It has 8MB of RAM. Barely enough to run Win95. As far as video and graphics cards, I don't have a clue anymore. I would like to think that I could use it for MLCad, otherwise it's probably (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Steve Bliss skrev i meddelandet ... (...) We'll think about it later... (...) When a (...) Sounds like a good idea - I'll test it when Real Life permits. Will LDAO also allow drag *from* LDAO to xxx? By using the same protocol you could use LDAO (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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If it has 32 MB you should be OK... but OK or not OK turns on what you feel minimum performance is. CPU and memory will both help rendering performance, I suspect, as will the speed of the graphics card. note that I am guessing here. (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Cool. Uhh, what about color? Augh! I don't want to think about that right now. (...) OK, I'll work on getting this feature added to LDAO. (...) How about if LDList accepted the dragged parts as well as supplied them? When a part is dragged (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) in the basement with Win95 as my OS. I'm just wondering if anyone has determined what the minimum requirements are. That would save the hassle (small, I know) of installing MLCad and finding out the 486 is too slow. -Duane (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Steve Bliss wrote in <lugnet.cad.mlcad> ... (...) displayed (...) dragged (...) Piece o' cake! I gave it an hour... LDList ver 3.6 can load a set description, containing a lot of lines like: <count> <piece number> and will limit the display to the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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How do I take pictures of a model from different angles, e.g. side, front, and top? I am so sorry this is such a stupid question, but I need some help. And yes, I am that stupid not to have figured it out yet? Please have pity! ;-) Mladen Pejic, (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) a (...) in. (...) Yeah, it would be better if it was supported by MLCAD, either directly or via the drag and drop protocol or something similar. I was just thinking in terms of plugins because that's what we were talking about, and it really (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) That would be a cool thing, but I don't think it would make sense as a plug-in. There's been discussion of having a protocol for dragging parts between L-CAD applications, it would be cool to have an "LD Palette" program which displayed all (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) into (...) How about this: a plugin that can restrict the parts available when building a model to a particular set, and keeps track of how many piece of each part are left. Bascially mimicing the way models are made from real sets. I think (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Yep, MLCAD is a Windows program with Windows menus, buttons, and all that. --Bram (25 years ago, 22-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi, Quick question. Is ML-Cad the most windows-like in terms of porgrams. The MS- DOS LDRAW format is a little bit to complicated for me. Aaron (25 years ago, 22-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) A 'hoser' plugin would be awesome for bendable pieces! Steve (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Sorry for the delayed reply. I agree that plug-ins should have more functionallity than just playing the roole of a format converter. What I could imagine is chaining the plug-in into the read processing of a dat/mpd file, that allowing the plug-in (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) i'm running a PIII 500 with 128M and a voodoo3 3000... *love* the performance i see from MLCad (and *love love love* the voodoo 3000 for Q3, unreal, etc)... running the VEC creation in LDAO is also a dream.. i used to start it and leave it for (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I'm looking to do some upgrading here at home (gotta love that tax return), and am interested what I can add/change to improve my MLCad performance. Is it strictly processor driven or can a beefier video card help out? With 256mb of RAM, I think (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Michael Lachmann <m.lachmann@xpoint.at> wrote in message news:FnyBpI.5HD@lugnet.com... (...) In my other life, I write what is essentially a plug-in for mechanical CAD systems. I also use plug-ins in other applications, like PageMaker. The common (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I'm happy to hear the general agreement for plug-ins. I agree defining a standard, valid for other programs too, would be the best scenario. The idea to choin the plug-in into the rendering pipe-line is a good idea, but has to be well defined. I (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) [snip] (...) Love the idea! I think something like this is just what we need to be able to consolidate cad utilities into one easy to use interface. For example, there could be L2P and L3P plugins written so you can access them from MLCad in a (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi, I'm a newby and isn't familiar to any drawing system that we have at this moment. I made today my first model with MLCAD, witch is great, but every coin has a back side. some remarks: 1)Personally, i find the help file not enough detailed on how (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I would very much like to customize MLCAD, but it is not clear to me what these plugins are going to allowed to access. Don't you need an API or something? What am I missing? See also detailed comments below. Michael Lachmann <m.lachmann@xpoint.at> (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Installation Problems with MLCad Version 1.6 and 1.7
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I released version 1.7 Release 2 this night. In general it is not required to download this version unless you are a new user of MLCad. The program crashed only after it has been installed for the very first time! Regards, and good play :-) Michael (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Suggestion for MLCad Plug-Ins
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I plan to introduce plug-in support with version 1.8 of MLCad. I would like to present my basic ideas here and would like to know, if that would basically be what you like or not. At this point I'm completely open to new ideas as well. So here is (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Installation Problems with MLCad Version 1.6 and 1.7
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Dear MLCad fans! I finaly found the problem for the MLCad crashes: Since version 1.6, MLCad uses color-tables. There is a problem now when the program is started for the very first time, since it tries to activate a dialog to ask the user for the (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | *** Update for MLCAD 17 - HELP ***
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Hy MLCad friends! I made some mistakes when making the package yesterday. So please download either the complete package again or just the help-files from my web-site: HELP: (2 URLs) not to forget: I wish you the all best for year 2000, hopefully (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Hey, thats a nice feature!
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Hey, all! I just discovered a new thing about Leocad. You can save and load Ldraw .dat files! Very, very useful to me, as I used to use Leocad and switched to MLCad after it came out, and I didn't know I could save my Leocad models. Anyway, you all (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: **** MLCAD V1.7 IS AVAILABLE NOW ****
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(...) I'll have to find something to model now to test how much I really like it :) Some little nit-picks: 1) You have to highlight the part line for the arrow and Home/End hotkeys to work, even though using the mouse or the menu buttons don't (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | **** MLCAD V1.7 IS AVAILABLE NOW ****
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MLCad V1.7 is available now! New features are: - Scrollbar less zooming in viewing areas - Background images - Added part highlighting - Each model has its own color-table now - LDraw and LDLite compatible colors - More hotkeys Feel free to download (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Default offset for special parts
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(...) Try using the fine grid. A good thing to remember is that you usually have to move the piece an even number (2, 4, 6, 8, etc) of times. To place axles, I move the axle so that it interects the hole as close as possible to where it should. Then (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Default offset for special parts
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I'm a newbee in creating parts with MLCAD (a fantastic program), i find it very easy to use. It's easy to place bricks, plates, beams and other regular parts using the grid coarse, but when placing axles and other parts in beam holes, i had to swith (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: How to break up multi-dat files?
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(...) Some means of requesting a cache refresh would be very useful for those times when I use MLCad to review parts I am authoring. Most time the automatic LDLite window provided by LDAO is OK, but occasionally I need to see several views and MLCad (...) (25 years ago, 24-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I'd be happy with no refresh or a manual refresh on submodel images... it's fast enough to go out and come back in, that doing that would be good enough. Most of the time when I actually care about the images for submodels it's because I built all (...) (25 years ago, 24-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: How to break up multi-dat files?
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Currently MlCad scannes a .dat file on its first access and cashes its data, these data are used for the preview which is not a problem since the data of a dat file do not change (at least not for MLCad during run-time). But the sub-models you (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: converting BMP's to *.DAT help
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1 pixel of your image corresponds to one stud. Michael Michael Horvath wrote in message ... (...) correlation (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: General Comments to MLCad
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(...) Yep. LDLite does things like 0 COLOR <color definition information> along with other stuff, and the HTML instruction generator in LDAO recognizes a subassembly statement: 0 SUB <file> <layout options> and in lugnet.cad.dev, we're proposing to (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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When converting bitmaps to DAT files in MLCAD, is there a direct correlation between the pixel width and height of the image and the output file's dimensions measured in stud-widths? Or, is this relationship more or less uncontrollable? Thanks for (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I thought the previews were "canned". I wouldn't mind a similar ability to can sub-model images. In other words, put the burden of updating on the user. Not having any way to get a preview image is pretty frustrating, especially if you do a lot of (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: General Comments to MLCad
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(...) You might want to check into a proposal Jeremy Sproat made in July, for a 0 CMDLINE meta-command, which would specify (default) viewing parameters for a file, in the same format as the LDraw command-line. Tore Eriksson used 0 CMDLINE in some (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: General Comments to MLCad
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(...) Ahh, "tagged" information then, in other words? :) Cool....... --Todd (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: General Comments to MLCad
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(...) It would be better (IMO) to format non-LDraw information as LDraw-style meta-commands, and keep everything in the DAT format. That gives the file the widest transportability between programs. Steve (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: General Comments to MLCad
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Michael Lachmann <m.lachmann@xpoint.at> wrote in message news:FMzp8A.HGF@lugnet.com... (...) that (...) rendering (...) LDLite already does this to a degree with its color, rotate, translate, etc. commands. If you allow the user to save as a (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: hex values (was: Re: Loader)
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This seems to be a bug, I will look at it, beside this I will take over the strategy suggested by Bram with using COLOR meta commands ... Michael Will Hess wrote in message ... (...) in (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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