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(...) You can change all movement increments including angles in the Settings>General>Change dialog box, "Step, Grid, Snap" tab. --Ryan (URL) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Besides us Admin/Programmer geeks gotta stick together...as to direct X.. (...) Joe Greene UNIX Systems, Network and IT Specialist a.k.a. Guesseppi Piegatura di Carta If you aren't having fun, you're doing the wrong thing! All opinions expressed are (...) (21 years ago, 14-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Hi Andrew, Your feature request is no less important than a bug report. I think it is good to put out new feature requests because they typically are meaningful to more than one person. This is how the program gets better. I'm just a stickler (...) (21 years ago, 14-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) CTRL + cursor key (left/right) on z-axes CTRL + cursor key (up/donw) on x-axes CTRL + PageuP/Down on y-axes hmm ... I might have mixed up the axeses - anyway you'll find out. at least I'm 100% sure on about the "A" key rotating on the y-xes (...) (21 years ago, 14-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I guess I was mistaken in my first post, it's a feature request, sorry. But I still think it's major, maybe because I am used to the functionality of an "Absolute" rotation system. -AK (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) But.... was it a bug or a feature request? (...) Kevin (21 years ago, 13-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I am in no way saying MLCad is bad, just the 3d view rotation. By the way, you were wrong about both of those programs being paid for, ZModeler is free. I do know how much work goes into 3D, but I'm not referencing to anything that involves changing (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Check out this reference guide from Jeff Boen: (URL) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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<WAAH> Angle connectors.. specifically #5 (haven't played with others much yet) can't quite seem to get the rotation to match the angle of the pice.. any suggestions? </WAAH> I love MLCad. It is an excellent piece of software.. I'll have to remember (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Wow, cool!! I didn't know this either. (...) And I was just about to post asking what the heck STRG was, glad I caught this in the reply field :-) -Tim (21 years ago, 13-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Wow, I didn't know this. Learn somthing new every day. Thanks for shareing. -Orion P.S. By the way, it's ctrl-shift for U.S. keyboards. (21 years ago, 13-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) nothing to add! (...) don't get you? just press SHIFT+STRG and move the mouse to zoom in and out in the edit mode. press SHIFT only to pan in the edit mode. w. (21 years ago, 13-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) First of all.... The LDraw family of CAD would not be where is is today without MLCad. It seems like you are biting the hand that feeds you. The CAD programs you are referring to are paid for, which probably means that one or more people work (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Huh? What do you mean by extremely difficult rotation? Do you mean that it's extremely difficult to rotate things in MLCad or do you mean figuring out what the rotation is for a given line is extremely difficult? I find the former very (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) you (...) it's (...) time (...) folder (...) when (...) That's not quite what I'm talking about. There's a "Models" category in MLCad's internal parts catalog that's set to look display the contents of the \LDRAW\MODELS folder. This lets you (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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In my opinion, the whole rendering system should be made Direct3D although that I know will create problems with culling. What really bugs me though is the EXTREMLEY difficult-to-use 3D rotaton. What happened to any kind of coordination at all? Not (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Hi, I know it's little bit late to respond, but still: You can do it easily even now. All you need to do is save your model where you want to have it using MLCad's standard dialog File/Save... Windows (as it's standard Windows dialog) DO (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hmmm. This is indeed strange. I made the same changes again to a backup I had on my WinXP machine at home and it worked! I am having trouble with my Win2000 machine at work. If I compile there, the file is not recognized. Jaco "Pieter Desnerck" (...) (21 years ago, 10-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Hi Jaco, I had the same problem. Just change one letter in the name of the DLL and the problem will be solved. Greetz, Pieter www.brickcreations.tk (21 years ago, 10-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Michael, I am have trouble with the Dutch DLL file again. With the last changes in place I rebuild the DLL file but now it does not work anymore! The file is there, the name is good, but I cannot choose Dutch. Please help! Jaco (21 years ago, 10-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) -*snip*- Might I suggest you look into Lsynth. This applciation can create hose, rubber bands, the black cables for the mindstorm sets, etc... You can find it here: (URL) -AHui LDraw Help Desk (2 URLs) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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Hi, I have some questions, abouth MLCAD V3.00 one's abouth the ' Flexible hose generator ' witch is implemented in MLCAD. 1) Where can i find a good Help file or manual about this utility? I need it to create a flexible hose for my train. 2) I (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Michael Lachmann" <michael.lachmann@lm...tware.com> wrote in message news:HJzKJw.woq@lugnet.com... (...) Fair enough. Thanks, Will Bricksburg Fire Department: (URL) Bricksburg Depot: (URL) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi Will, something like that is foreseen in the next release, but this will take another while until its ready. Michael "Will Hess" <nc_hokie@ripline.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:HJuHzn.19Dv@lugnet.com... (...) change (...) ease (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Michael, Could you look at the possibility of adding an option to let the user change the default Models directory to something other than the directory created by LDRAW? I like to keep my models in Windows' My Documents folder for ease of backup (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Matthew Miller" <mattdm@mattdm.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:slrnbja4tt.8bj.....bu.edu... (...) You might also wan't to try InnoSetup (URL) is also free. Regards, Michael (21 years ago, 12-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Try NSIS. (URL) (21 years ago, 9-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hi all, Does anyone know a good but easy to use program to create an installer? What I am looking for is an installer that first searches the users computer for the MLCad executable and then puts the DLL file in that directory. I need this since one (...) (21 years ago, 9-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Jason J Railton" <j.j.railton@ntlworld.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:HIxxMn.t3A@lugnet.com... (...) Hi, just to make things clearer: My web-space is hostet by Inode, a huge private competitor of the Austrian Telekom. This company head a main (...) (21 years ago, 3-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Its available at : (URL) just checked, and it's available. Regards, Ludo (21 years ago, 1-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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What's happened to the MLCAD homepage? Jason Railton (21 years ago, 1-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Good evening. Does anyone know where I can acquire a scorpion (Animal Scorpion 30169)? I need one for my Fleebnork model that I'm working on, but I can't seem to find one in my files (I have all the parts updates and unofficial parts). Thank you for (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) Yes, that makes sense. Hey, I did a little searching and found some references to "depth sprites" which seem to be supported in some of the latest graphics hardware. I haven't read it yet, but the pictures in this article seem to indicate that (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi Don, "Don Heyse" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:HHrE7q.1vCq@lugnet.com... (...) The image buffers, just keep the light information in it, but not the color itself, the color is assigned during pasting the image onto the screen. I think I haven't (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I'm a bit behind on this thread, but thanks Michael. That explains a lot. I never thought of the image buffering approach for orthographic displays. It's a really neat idea! I do have a question though. How do you handle colors in the image (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Unfortunatly this is not true with files that have synthesized hoses and cables. They are quite large and take a *very long* time to load. (...) Kevin (21 years ago, 7-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I guess points are shared only on a part basis, not on a model basis. So, 400 distinct points for a part is already a fair number. Thus I think the sorting technique I discuss is not candidate for implementation unless the ldraw library goes (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) <snip> Cool! Should perform a lot faster on searching I would expect 400 points? That seems low to me. Most of my models have more than that many elements! Even with shared vertices that seems low. (21 years ago, 7-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Ok, the practical figures relativize the problem for everyday use. Thanks Michael. For the sake of sharing here is how I imagine a sorted point list. The sorted list is also implemented as an array, so points can be accessed by index for (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Damien Guichard" <damien.guichard@wanadoo.fr> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:HHKMxB.225G@lugnet.com... <SNIP> (...) the (...) in a (...) So far I could find out, it doesn't effect loading much, I think it was something about 10% less then without this (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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