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(...) Looks interesting, be sure to post to .trains when you have done. Why did you pick on a Brazilian loco? Thats a really good site. tim (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Its not really what you are looking for but I find this useful printed out as a reference (URL) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) right click in the part preview window and select "Find...". this will open the search dialog. you can either search in part numbers or part names. also a match case function is available. once mlcad has found a part matching your criteria (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) By "partial description" I was thinking more on the lines of just bringing up any and all "2x2" parts. Anyways, I'm not sure being able to sort by full description is all that helpful. You've got "_Animal" vs "Animal", "_TECHNIC" vs "TECHNIC", (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) You can click on the "Part Description" header to sort by description, at which time you can also start typing and it will take you to the next part in the list matching what you've typed. ROSCO (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Can I make this a feature request then? This program is SOOOO addictive :) I'm just trying to model a Garratt locomotive from: (URL) its 4:30 AM! Thanks again. (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Whoops, the same feature is available for adding new parts by clicking Edit/Add/Part. I often have the Mode set to Pan instead of Edit (which disables the Add Part function, but not the Modify Part function), since you can still click/drag new (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) There isn't, but there's a way to work around it. If you drag any random part into the display panes, you can right-click on it and select Modify. This will bring up a list of parts in alphabetical order (not numerical order, so 410 will come (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) First, all your model, including all sub-models, as well as unofficial parts *must* be in the MPD file. Some MPD generators put the full paht name of the file in the MPD. This is unfortunate, because when you try to unpack it stuff can end up (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi all. Is there a part search box anywhere in MLCad? It would be useful to search on part of the description as well as the number without creating a custom part tree group. Thanks (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I'm mentoring several First Lego League teams. I built a sample lifting device using MLCAD to illustrate the principle of a parallelogram. I had it in sections and uploaded the mpd. I soon realized that I needed to upload the sub-models and have the (...) (20 years ago, 20-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi, I'll add that to the wish-list. best regards, Michael "Ross Crawford" <rosscraw@bigpond.net.au> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:I4uBBD.Ktn@lugnet.com... (...) it is (...) that (...) eye when (...) them a (...) (20 years ago, 1-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi, I add that to the wish-list - As an option to turn off. Michael "Andrew Westrate" <loewe_29@yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:I4M37z.1Hox@lugnet.com... (...) which (...) changing (...) directory, (...) then (...) made my (...) that (...) (...) (20 years ago, 1-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I think that sounds like a great idea, the hidden ones will be a lot easier to spot when scrolling if grey (and finding the RIGHT piece to unhide). -NB (20 years ago, 30-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi Michael, It is occasionally useful to be able to see the description of a part when it is hidden. I would like to suggest a new column, maybe to the left of "type", that has an icon depicting whether or not the line is hidden. Maybe a little eye (...) (20 years ago, 30-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I also like this behaviour, I use it a lot (along with 0 MLCAD SKIP_BEGIN/END) when working on large Ldraw files. ROSCO (20 years ago, 27-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Andrew Westrate" <loewe_29@yahoo.com> wrote in news:I4M37z.1Hox@lugnet.com: (...) Personally I really like this behaviour. Please don't simply change this back to the old style. An option would be fine, but sometimes it's invaluable to be able to (...) (20 years ago, 27-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Michael, I recently noticed a couple of things in the newest version of MLCad, which behave differently from the previous versions. I hope you'll consider changing these back to the way they behaved previously. I was working with a file that had a (...) (20 years ago, 25-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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Hi, I just updated the MLCad.ini file accordingly to the latest LDraw.org parts update 2004-03. The .ini file defines the parts available in MLCad's minifigure generator. Download the file from my website: www.holly-wood.it/mlcad-en.html The update (...) (20 years ago, 18-Sep-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Thanks Don. I sure you're right. I thought they already were in the LDraw library. By the way, does anyone know how long maxifigs have been around? I'm beginning to feel that at the rate we're going, we would never catch up with all the new (...) (20 years ago, 31-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I think some of the parts may not be official yet. Look here and at the prev and next links. (URL) that what you're looking for? Have fun, Don (20 years ago, 30-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Sure! Do you have the bricks? ;-) Jaco "Mangudai" <templar_knight_ii@yahoo.com> schreef in bericht news:I2vnKx.19zn@lugnet.com... (...) Space (...) :-( (...) up for (...) (20 years ago, 27-Aug-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.space)
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OK. A rather new part. I do not have one. (...) sure (...) a (...) a (...) (20 years ago, 27-Aug-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.space)
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I believe there used to be a class for maxifigs in the Other>M folder. Now that I want to find them, I can't. Where are they, have they ever been or is maxi a 4-letter word unlike mini? (20 years ago, 27-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I am an adjunct instructor for Portland State University. I contract with a pre-college PSU affiliate called Saturday Academy www.saturdayacademy.pdx.edu> I teach programming and robotics courses to kids from 4th to 12th grade (that's 10 - 18 (...) (20 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) That's exactly what I was trying to accomplish ... a way to reference the primitives folder in MLCAD. I suspect that it is as simple as changing the MLCAD ini to include the P folder and perhaps another sub-parts folder. I tried stickng the (...) (20 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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(...) I found these: (URL) nice! I think they match the scale of the station. Who is StarFreak359, the author of these models? Please contact me. Jaco (20 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.space)
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(...) Ahh, this looks like the perfect time to again point out how nice it could be if mlcad supported plugins. Hint, hint... Have fun, Don (20 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) A good reason could be that the resulting references to primitives would be to the wrong libary, but there must be another way to display the content of folders like /p, /p/48, and /s in MLCad's availible parts tree/parts preview, so you can (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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(...) Perhaps it might be useful (maybe in a new thread) for folks to enumerate what they think some of those features are? Might give some of the authors ideas... (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Excellent references! Thanks for pointing me to Paul Easter's site. Thinking that I may have previously missed it, I went back to search for Prim-Gen at the LDraw site. I haven't found a reference to it. Too bad, it seems to do a lot of things (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Just wanted to say I agree with what Don wrote, and add my own 2 cents. I use Paul Easter's zerobase.dat and point.dat files a lot when beginning a new part. I like to start by measuring the part, and using notepad or LDAO to record the (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) While it doesn't specifically use MLCad, Paul Easter's utilities pages has some nice screen shots of the part development process. And I'm sure you could use some of the ideas in MLCad. (URL) one shows a bunch of windows in polling mode with (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Hi, I'll echo Orion's question: where do you teach? What level/subject(s) do you teach? I'm interested how and why you've chosen to insert LDraw parts authoring into your curriculum.. Was it difficult to convince your superiors? I teach CAD at (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) That's really cool. You might have mentioned this eariler and I missed it but where do you teach? This particluar presentation has gone through several revisions (I just uploaded the Brickfest DC version a couple of days ago) but I'm always (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I've read Virtual Lego, LDraw.org tutorials and even used your BrickFestPDX Powerpoint Presentation in class. I've found them very helpful for creating parts line-upon-line. However, I am inherently a very lazy programmer. That's why I want to (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Ok, you're good until here. The best way, in my opinion, to learn parts authoring is to look at other similar parts. (...) Don't do this, it's bad since the work is unnecessary and the primitve library is updated almost every time a new (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) 524.dat was in the 2004-02 parts update, so if you install that, you should be fine. Andy (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Both! Here's what I've done so far. 1. Studied several parts dat files by stepping through the code using LDAO. I particularly concentrated on parts that had features similar to the ones I'd like to make. (My wife wants to model all the large (...) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) The MLCad.ini is maintained by Willy Tschager. Visit his site for the current file: (URL) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Minifig Generator has a Helmet Darth Vader which produces and error because it can't find the part 524.dat How do I remove the description or find the part? I believe there are several Hat / Hairpieces missing as well. (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I don't understand your question. Are you asking how to include primitive in your parts or are you asking in general how to author parts in MLCad? -Orion (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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How do I setup MLCAD to create new parts using the primitives and pre-scaled primitives? (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) A greater challenge is to build a minifig scale Deep Space 9!!! LOL! You up for that? (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.space)
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"Jaco van der Molen" <jmolen@zonnet.nl> wrote in message news:I2pnux.1y2v@lugnet.com... (...) (URL) > its buildt of just 5 bricks :) (...) The dish is 2.4cm in diameter. There is no partnumber on it and I'm not sure what set it came in. With a (...) (20 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.space)
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"Jonathan Wilson" <jonwil@tpgi.com.au> schreef in bericht news:I2otFD.srF@lugnet.com... (...) Good luck :-) I have plans and some ideas for a minifig scale Runabout and did some designing in MLCad. But never finished. Maybe I will pick this up once (...) (20 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.space)
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"Christian Treczoks" <ct@braehler.com> schreef in bericht news:I2oo6H.20nJ@lugnet.com... (...) ... but never the less: a great model! Jaco (20 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.space)
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How sweet! I am not sure what dish that is? Jaco "Øyvind Steinnes" <phoenix@online.no> schreef in bericht news:I2npLv.Lzv@lugnet.com... (...) (20 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Challenge! Build Startrek ships to DS9 scale.
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Great models! I rendered a picture with them docked at the station. Though I think they are too big a scale :-( See Brickshelf: (URL) Allemann" <jason@parlugment.org> schreef in bericht news:I2nnKF.3D9@lugnet.com... (...) of (...) far as (...) (...) (20 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.space)
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How about this challenge, build a NCC-1701-D MOC scaled to these: (URL) a proper minifig scale Enterprise (any of them) would be the ultimate :) (20 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.space)
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(...) Hey, challenge yourself! Build a DS9 in scale to this Startrek ship ;-) (URL) (No, it is not mine) SCNR, Christian (20 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.space)
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"Jason Allemann" <jason@parlugment.org> wrote in message news:I2nnKF.3D9@lugnet.com... (...) Space (...) :-( (...) I'm not following the discusions on lugnet.space, and normaly dont build any space related stuff in LEGO, but has always been (...) (20 years ago, 18-Aug-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.space)
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(...) Actually I've been following your DS9 project with great interest (amazing rendition by the way). When I finished my (URL) Enterprise> one of the projects I was considering was a DS9 to scale with it. I even got as far as prototyping one of (...) (20 years ago, 18-Aug-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.space, FTX)
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Hi all builders, cadders, datters, mlcadders and spacers, I challenge anyone to make Startrek spaceships to the scale of my Deep Space 9 station! Who's in for it? Jaco P.S. Currently I have some ideas for an Enterprise D, a Runabout and the Defiant. (...) (20 years ago, 18-Aug-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.models, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.space)
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Hi all! Since I am writting in a hurry, I wanted to announce my latest project this way: (URL) Visit my announcement at 1000steine.de> Hope you enjoy! Leg Godt! (URL) my oldgrey Homepage: (URL) (20 years ago, 7-Aug-04, to lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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| | Re: (First post) enter position and rotation dialog
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(...) What you're trying to do is define a rotation vector, which can also be explained as a "custom-oriented axis". Its origin is always 0,0,0 and it will extend in the direction set by the XYZ coordinates. This way of working is very powerful, (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Well I'd recommend doing it that way, as it is MUCH easier. The problem moving pieces at strange angles is that the default movement is in x, y or z direction - not in the direction that they are rotated. Remember also that you don't have to (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I'm not sure what you're saying here, but I'll take a stab at it anyways. If you highlight a piece that you placed earlier in the list, before you started messing with angles, and then add your new piece there, it'll take it's rotational (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Thanks for the prompt reply. :) I am aware of the rotate buttons, and have been using them allot. I even reset the button for the axis I'm working with to step 1 instead of 15, to try and get it lined up. It's still not working. :) To give you an (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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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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| | Re: Cockpits, and Facets, and Ninja, oh my!
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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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| | Re: Building DS9
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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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| | Re: Cockpits, and Facets, and Ninja, oh my!
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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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| | Re: Cockpits, and Facets, and Ninja, oh my!
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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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| | Re: Cockpits, and Facets, and Ninja, oh my!
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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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| | Cockpits, and Facets, and Ninja, oh my!
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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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| | Building DS9
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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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| | Re: New tutorial: Running LSynth through MLCad's interface
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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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| | Re: New tutorial: Running LSynth through MLCad's interface
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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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| | Re: New tutorial: Running LSynth through MLCad's interface
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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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| | Re: New tutorial: Running LSynth through MLCad's interface
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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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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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| | Attention: Serious bug in MLCad V3.10 !
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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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| | Re: *** MLCad V3.10 is available ***
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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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(...) Total side note: I agree with Don, row/column ordering is not what I would have chosen. BUT, it is far easier (IMO) to hand-transform row/column LDraw commands than the equivalent column/row commands (like I've had to do in POV-Ray code). (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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