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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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| | Sv: Taking Pictures of Models
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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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| | Re: Why is my transparency greyed out?
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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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