 | | Problem with MLCAD arrows in other programs - and how to solve it [DAT]
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Hello, when I used the new MLCAD arrows in submodels, I always had one problem: I couldn't ghost them. Only MLCAD interpreted the ghosted arrows correctly, the other programs (LPub, LDView...) didn't. Where's the problem? MLCAD does not ghost the (...) (20 years ago, 30-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | New England Church - MOC for Lego Factory week 4
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Hello everyone, This is both my first micro-scale MOC and my first Lego Factory entry. Here is my little description: This is an old New England Church. Several trees and a gazeebo make this a picturesque place to have a wedding. Several parishoners (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.org.us.michlug, FTX) !
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| | Re: LEGOfactory and LDraw
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(...) <SNIP> (...) Thanks Jaco. I had been following the same line of research. Where LDraw has a 3-digit number and LDD now gives us a 4- or 5-digit version, I think we can treat that as "official" and rename in LDraw. Where there is a different 4- (...) (20 years ago, 16-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Renumbering parts! (was LEGOfactory and LDraw)
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After some more research and thinking I found these parts too. They were (ofcourse) in the Excel file of Ildefonso! I should have thought of that before. 50950 Brick 1x3 with Bow (not yet in LDraw) 53480 Plate 8 x 8 with Road Straight (I made this (...) (20 years ago, 16-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: LEGOfactory and LDraw
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Hi all, Here is an update for the LEGO Facotry MLCad Favorites list. I have discoverd that some parts were double in the list. Some parts have a different LDraw number than the one LEGO uses. They are: 44237 = Brick 2 x 6 (=2456) 30367 = Cylinder 2 (...) (20 years ago, 16-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Help?-Odd problem
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(...) Hi, This is my first visit to this newsgroup, so first of all - hello everyone, I'm dmac (Maciej Szymanski) from Poland and I'm really just a humble user of MLCad, not an expert on CAD matters. Secondly, please excuse me for going back to a (...) (20 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: LEGOfactory and LDraw
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(...) Better would be to say: not at all, without significant amount of work :-/ The parts in part library used in LDD have differently placed rotation points, center points and default position (when compared to LDraw parts). One would need to (...) (20 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: LEGOfactory and LDraw
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(...) Not yet. -Orion (20 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: LEGOfactory and LDraw
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(...) Can you convert LDD to LDraw or vice versa? (20 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: LEGOfactory and LDraw
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FYI: I have just uploaded the first versions of the baseplates. Here they are: (URL) (20 years ago, 14-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: LEGOfactory and LDraw
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(...) OK, obviously I couldn't figure out how to get that info out of Idelfonso's list! THANKS (to both of you) for posting this! If there are any other non-LDD/LDraw users out there who want DXF conversions of these files I could share these as (...) (20 years ago, 12-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: LEGOfactory and LDraw
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(...) Hi Jaco, This is great! Now you just need to know which colors you are allowed to use. With the help of Clark Stephens I updated that spreadsheet to include the LDRAW color numbers and names: (URL) I'm currently working in something more (...) (20 years ago, 11-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: LEGOfactory and LDraw
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Hi all, Thanks to Ildefonso I have made a Favorites group for MLCad of the parts allowed to use in the LEGOfactory competion. I used his file posted in message (URL) So credit for sorting out the pieces go to him! Copy the bit between the ------- (...) (20 years ago, 11-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | MLCad.ini 2004-04 Update Now Available
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Hi, I just updated the MLCad.ini file accordingly to the latest LDraw.org parts update 2004-04. 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, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Not a good fit?
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(...) Hi Jaco, nice render! One thing I would suggest to make it look better is a fudge - Where the pins don't line up properly, it is best to line them up with the part that is being viewed. In your case the angles beams instead of the inside one. (...) (20 years ago, 5-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Not a good fit?
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(...) Isn't it great! ;-) (...) I noticed this. I think my display is 16 bit color, but I am not sure. I just used Save snapshot from the menu. Why do you ask? Jaco P.S. I finished the model with tracks. See: (URL) (20 years ago, 5-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Not a good fit?
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(...) Hi, I now understand that the geometry not a perfect fit is, so we cannot expect LDraw to fit the part correct. It did occur to me to adjust the connector so that it does fit, but thought the picture looked good enough. Jaco (20 years ago, 5-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Not a good fit?
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(...) question, but I do have a side comment and some questions. My side comment is that I always like it when people post nice snapshots from LDView. It helps give me a sense of accomplishment. Second, my questions. Did you take that snapshot while (...) (20 years ago, 5-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Not a good fit?
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(...) Basic geometry - the arrangements are only approximately matching. 1. The triangle has perpendicular sides 5 plates (2 studs) and 14 plates, giving a hypotenuse length of 14.87 plates, or slightly less than 6 studs, so as you've found, the 1x8 (...) (20 years ago, 4-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Not a good fit?
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(...) Hi Jaco, I run into this often when I'm using rotation to get things into place. With MLCad you have a grid (course, medium, fine). All things that are placed are snapped to the grid. For nice rectangular designs, this grid works well. When (...) (20 years ago, 4-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Not a good fit?
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Hi all, Take a look at this! (URL) you can see I have been modelling Technic set 856 and came across this: (URL) this: (URL) bricks and connectors are exactly fit to the blue pins and ought to fit exactly on the green one, but it is not a perfect (...) (20 years ago, 4-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Ghost bug in 3.11
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(...) The thing is, that STEP and ROTSTEP are implicitly ghosted for a given sub-model used in a model. When you are generating images for the sub-model itself, STEP and ROTSTEP have meaning and affect the generated images. When you add the (...) (20 years ago, 3-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Ghost bug in 3.11
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(...) <snip> (...) Pardon LPub's use of CALLOUT in meta-commands. Perhaps I chose too generic a term, but...... The term is there and I thing it would be a very *bad* thing to have callout mean one thing in LPub and a totally different thing in (...) (20 years ago, 3-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Ghost bug in 3.11
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(...) I'm a bit lost here. Are you talking about using ldglite to render image files, or render interactively? I ask because -mf and -mF ignore all STEP commands, but only for the non-interactive image file generating usage. There is a -D command (...) (20 years ago, 3-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ghost bug in 3.11
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(...) Didn't try those, though I doubt they'd make it ignore CLEAR. (...) Sounds good to me. (...) I'm not sure I follow why ghosting these would be a bad idea. Since ghosting is only supposed to hide something if it's not the main model, ghosting (...) (20 years ago, 3-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Ghost bug in 3.11
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(...) Did you use 1.1.5 and the -mf or -mF options? I know these options make ldglite ignore STEP. The step dats that LPub makes do have STEP and ROTSTEP, but eliminate buffer exchage and clear and such, before passing the step dat to ldglite. (...) (...) (20 years ago, 3-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Ghost bug in 3.11
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I discovered when rendering with ldglite that it doesn't ignore commands like 0 CLEAR and 0 STEP in submodels even when MLCad does. (Odd, considering it does recognize submodels.) Hopefully the next version of LPub will eliminate that problem by (...) (20 years ago, 2-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Part search
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(...) No, I didn't know that. It didn't sound like something that I'd really find useful, but I've been trying it, and it does make it a lot more convenient to select pieces on-screen instead of either having to hunt them down in the part list or (...) (20 years ago, 30-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Part search
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Hello Purple Dave, "Purple Dave" <purpledave@maskofdestiny.com> schreef in bericht news:I5yux2.14JC@lugnet.com... (...) on (...) alphabetical (...) disables (...) still (...) cranked (...) in the (...) I don't know if you already knew, but it is (...) (20 years ago, 29-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Part search
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(...) No, I don't mean coming up with a new description for it. I just want it to stack with the rest of the 2x2 plates in the part tree instead of ending up at the very bottom of the list after the 10x10 plates. There's no logical reason why it (...) (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Part search
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(...) 'Wing' means 'plate with angled edges' 'Wedge' means '(slope) brick with angled edges' Does that work for you? Steve (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Part search
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Steve Bliss wrote in message ... (...) bricks (...) I thought the current naming idea was to classify parts by shape, not function? I use wedge plates frequently, but not as wings. Kevin ---...--- Farmhouse kit: (URL) TOWN PLANNING information: (...) (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Part search
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(...) Ayup. All the wedge-plates should be classified as Wings, with all the bricks staying in Wedges. (...) If you have a better name for that part, I'd like to hear it -- I haven't come across a convincing one yet (of course, I haven't been (...) (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Part search
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(...) There's also the matter of the 2x3 and 2x4 wedge/wing plates. The 2x3 pair is classified as wedge plates and the 2x4 pair is classified as wings. It's a little less problematic, since both groups of parts are in the Other/W branch of the tree, (...) (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Part search
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(...) Yes, I downloaded the ZIP file last night after he posted a link to it. I haven't installed it yet, but I thought the ability to search by total number of studs (in addition to everything else) to be a most amusing and interesting feature. (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Part search
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(...) Yeah, some of those Boat parts need to be relocated. Especially now that the Wedge group has been broadened to include the boat base bricks (originally, wedges were only the 3x4 wedges, like part 6069). (...) That's not a totally bad idea. (...) (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Part search
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(...) You might want to try Anders Isaakson's LDList, a small program for searching your LDraw parts. It's really a simple interface, allowing you to search for keywords or specific phrases. And LDList not only matches on part numbers and names, it (...) (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Part search
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(...) I forgot to mention that you can search on the number of studs too. (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Part search
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(...) I assume it uses the same format as the tree grouping rules, which again are undocumented in the help files, but are helpfully detailed in: (URL) dont appear (as you have noticed) to accept spaces. (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Part search
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(...) I still keep looking for the 6x7 Boat bow plate in the Plates section, then the Other/W(edges/ings) section, and then finally remember that it's classified as a Boat part (I've done this at least twice since actually finding it in the parts (...) (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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