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(...) There are also keyboard shortcuts for those operations. Rotate around Y axis: 'A' and Ctrl+right or left arrows Rotate around X axis: Ctrl+up or down arrrows Rotate aournd Z azis: Ctrl+'home' or 'end' --Ryan (URL) (20 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) That and the fact that doing patterns well is much more challenging, especially on curved surfaces. -Orion (20 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) If you're using MLcad, there should be a toolbar with six circular arrow buttons in it. Those arrow bottons will rotate the part along all three axes. The arrows are modeled according to the top-view (default lower left frame), where the left (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi everyone, I just started getting interested in lego modeling in MLcad, and I am really enjoying it. I am having a little trouble with it though..maybe you can help me out... I have placed a part (plate 1x2) into the work area, and I need to (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Unfortunately I haven't worked on the other two dragon body parts the last months. The head-details takes me to trouble. nad then there is only the outer hull. See here: (URL) would be glad, if anybody else wants to complete the parts. CU (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dat.ideas, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) implimentation. I'm the kind of person that would reinvent the wheel just to say "hey, that wheel's mine! I made it myself!" Seriously, though, I've always wanted to build my own versions of the Trek ships; In fact, have you seen the Scorpion (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Doug, I think I beat you to that. :) (URL) luck. That's a great model! Corey (20 years ago, 25-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) That one is under "Minifig Flame" -Orion (20 years ago, 25-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dat.ideas, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Hmm, yes it would have. So would other parts with weird curvy surfaces like the flame/seaweed piece (considering the fact that the first dragon's body parts have all been completed, I'm surprised that I can't find that part anywhere). (...) I (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dat.ideas, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) Aack! This would've been a nice part to (URL) 3D Scan>. But short of FedExing the part to me at my hotel (as I don't have one on hand) that's probably not gonna happen.. I could try to have one of my students take a stab at it in 3DStudio or (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dat.ideas, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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I downloaded copies of LDraw and MLcad a few days ago, and I've been building digital versions of a few of my models, but I ran into a couple of problems: 1. Using MLcad, I couldn't get (URL) this piece> to close flush to (URL) this piece>. There (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dat.ideas, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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Dear folks! As of today I have started to collect pieces for my model of the Deep Space 9 station from the same named Startrek series. I created this model way back completely digitally in MLCad, but I am attempting to make it for real! The model is (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) good point. I'll fix it with the next site update. anyway to give a short answer now: mlcad 3.11, lsynth 2.0, no specific order needed, but it is wise to install mlcad first to spot errors with the part-library. (...) :-))) w. (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I'm glad you like it! praise from the code-god itself saves my day :-))) (...) w. (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Slick presentation, great work. One nit, you may want to mention what versions of the software this tutorial prereqs. Also is there an order dependency on which one has to be installed first? I agree with Kevin, you rock! Thanks for sharing! (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Willy, THanks so much for this tutorial. It is awesome that you put the work into it. Greatly appreciated. (...) Kevin (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi folks, generating hoses, chains and electical cabels has never been easier - even for people with little CAD experience. Check out this tutorial about MLCad's newest feature and go down to the nuts and bolts of the prog: www.holly-wood.it "Synth" (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Thanks Michael, I'll give that a try (and I'm looking forward to the next version as well) Ken (20 years ago, 11-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Ken, this sounds like a bug in MLCad. I'll investigate that. The other point is that the next version of MLCad will support the offical color definitions based on the LDraw.org color standard. In the mean time you can do the following (so far I (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Can anyone answer this question ? Why does this happen. If I use a colour from the "More" section of the colorbar toolbar eg; Sand Green (378) or Sand Blue (379) that show as their correct names when I view them in the parts section at the top of (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Attention: Serious bug in MLCad V3.10 !
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Hello, (...) Parts. (...) This one does indeed work for me too. just downloaded version 3.11 and adjusted the .ini, this time without the backslash and it is still working :-) Keep up the good work, Michael! Greetings Maico Arts (20 years ago, 6-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi, MLCad V3.11 is a bug-fix release to V3.00 and corrects the following bugs: 1) Scan path function causing crash and not working correctly 2) Hide Feature doesn't change modified attribute 3) Bug when removing sub-models from mpd projects As usual (...) (20 years ago, 6-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I just did a quick test: [SCAN_ORDER] 1 = SHOW <LDRAWDIR>\Parts 2 = HIDE <LDRAWDIR>\Parts\s 3 = HIDE <LDRAWDIR>\P 4 = HIDE <LDRAWDIR>\P\48 5 = SHOW <LDRAWDIR>\NewParts And the parts in NewParts showed up in MLCad without having to use Scan (...) (20 years ago, 6-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hello Willy (...) I will try this kind of setup again. If it works for you, it should work for me too! Thanks (...) supporting (...) upgrading the (...) biggest (...) Hmm, I think we will see it at LEGO World... About the language dll, I think I (...) (20 years ago, 6-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi to all MLCad users. I just found a realy serious bug in MLCad, I must say I don't know what I did when I implemented the search-path feature but at least during testing my mind completely failed and I didn't see any obvious bug. I'm realy sorry (...) (20 years ago, 6-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) hi, it is working smoothly on my win2000+SP4 with the following config: c:\Programme\MLCad\MLCad.exe c:\Programme\MLCad\PARTS c:\Programme\MLCad\PARTS\s ... c:\Programme\MLCad\Eigene_Parts [SCAN_ORDER] 1 = SHOW Parts 2 = HIDE Parts\s 3 = HIDE (...) (20 years ago, 6-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hello Michael and Niels, I just checked for myself, I have the same problem. paths for me are: D:\lego\ldraw\MLCad_V3.10 the unofficial parts are here: D:\lego\ldraw\unoff\parts and D:\lego\ldraw\unoff\p First I had a longer name for "unoff". Here (...) (20 years ago, 5-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I am aware of that it is a new function in version 3.10. When I select Help, About MLCad it shows MLCad Version 3.10 Copyright (c) 1999-2004 by Michael Lachmann I just installed MLCad 3.10 on Windows XP Home Edition, and changed the SCAN_ORDER (...) (20 years ago, 5-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Sorry about this stupid question: Are you sure you are using version 3.10 of MLCad? Because 3.00 is not able to deal with that! Michael "Niels Karsdorp" <niels.karsdorp@pggm.nl> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:I0DBM0.10Jy@lugnet.com... (...) (20 years ago, 5-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I did a scan parts from the file menu, still no success. I even tried to change the order: [SCAN_ORDER] 1 = SHOW NewParts 2 = HIDE NewParts\s 3 = SHOW Parts 4 = HIDE Parts\s 5 = HIDE P 6 = HIDE P\48 7 = SHOW MyParts No success. I tried adding (...) (20 years ago, 5-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Do a scan parts from the file menu, then it should work. Michael "Niels Karsdorp" <niels.karsdorp@pggm.nl> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:I02LGu.1v8I@lugnet.com... (...) don't (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Don, "Don Heyse" <dheyse@hotmail.spam....away.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:Hztzr8.y0t@lugnet.com... <SNIP> (...) That will be documented anyway - sure. But for that feature I have to think even more ... but I have already an idea how that could (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Personally I would like to see a standard parts structure like this, at least for MLCAD; Parts oldparts unoffparts myparts Parts would be the officially released parts oldparts would be where old official parts are moved to when they are updated (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) My folder structure is as follows: D:\LDraw\MLCad_V3.10\ includes MLCad 3.10 install, including MLCad.exe and MLCad.ini D:\LDraw\Parts\ D:\LDraw\Parts\S D:\LDraw\P\ D:\LDraw\P\48\ D:\LDraw\NewParts\ D:\LDraw\NewParts\S\ D:\LDraw\MyParts\ (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) hi niels, the code looks fine. please check the following two things: * lets persume that that MLCad.exe and MLCad.ini is stored in: c:\Programs\MLCad and the parts are in: c:\Programs\MLCad\Parts then your custom parts have to be placed in (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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How does that scan_order thing work? I've added three more paths in mlcad.ini, but the parts in these folders don't show up anywhere in MLCad. [SCAN_ORDER] 1 = SHOW Parts 2 = HIDE Parts\s 3 = HIDE P 4 = HIDE P\48 5 = SHOW NewParts 6 = HIDE (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) While you're checking, think about this. What if the MLCad generators were reconfigured as some sort of plugins, and the plugin specs were documented? Then everyone could use your generators. You know, weird people like me who are frightened (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | *** Specification 2.0 of MLCad Extensions ***
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Hi, this can be downloaded from the developer section on (URL) you will also find the new language templates for MLCad V3.10 Best regards, Michael (20 years ago, 24-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Done, "Don Heyse" <dheyse@hotmail.spam....away.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:Hzrprv.14sB@lugnet.com... <SNIP> (...) No sorry, MLCad does not support plugins yet, currently I have a very quick way introducing new generators and pseudo commands by (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi Don, now it's getting interesting ... "Don Heyse" <dheyse@hotmail.spam....away.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:HzrwBF.9t2@lugnet.com... <SNIP> (...) I'm actually reading it in as | a b c | | d e f | | g h i | and that is also how I'm writing my (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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