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Thanks for the new upgrade. It looks fabulous now, with no missing surfaces and the 3D-drag-rotation. It doesn't feel right to use though. Imho it should rotate according to where you take grip on the model. Like if you grip on the right side and (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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[X-FUT lugnet.cad.dev] (...) [snip rest of announcement] (...) everyone saw it: I've uploaded a set of files which have been cleaned and marked up, according to the existing BFC proposal. The file only includes some basic 1x and 2x bricks, a couple (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ===== MLCad V1.8 IS AVAILABLE =====
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Well, thank you Michael. MLCad 1.8 seems to work well. Mouse rotation and translation are very useful. Direct insertion of lines triangles and quads will give me a big help in parts creation. I hope you could soon add precise rotation functions to (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I proudly present: MLCad V1.8 Beta 1 ===...=== New Features: - This version supports the unofficial BFC meta commands - provides basic functions for using LDraw primitives (lines, triangles, quads and optional line commands). - The model shown in (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Greetings I just added a new Feature Article to ldraw.org. Here Jonathan Knudsen, author of The Unofficial Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS Robots, explains his techniques for designing building instructions using LDraw, MLCad, L3P, and POV-Ray. Check it (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, George Manousakis writes: <SNIP> (...) MLCad V1.8 will support unlimited selections (no limit on any number of parts). With that I stopped drawing all the rectangles and display the outer bounding box only. The crosses are still (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Hello, Reading that you are working at MLCad v1.8 i'd like to ask if its possible to select multiple parts without the bounding box appearing around them, since it prevents the user to select parts that are inside this box. I know that you can (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi Michael, Michael Lachmann <michael.lachmann@maxmobil.at> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: FrpML4.8ny@lugnet.com... (...) four (...) and (...) Great! Ok, I will stand by.... (...) -- Ciao, Joachim. (Homepage: (URL) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) it (...) I've tried some weeks ago to build a small viewer compatible to the MLCad dat format extensions, using OpenGl. The result was: It was not much faster, and I was loosing all the features, build in into the 3D-Drawing engine of MLCad. (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) why don't you add opengl support? for people with acceleration ( not me :( ) it would be MUCH faster, with little or no quality loss Jonathan Gevaryahu Jgevaryahu(remove)@hotmail.com (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) step precession-level from no studs, over lines (like LEdit), coase studs and normal studs. First speed measurements indicated a increase of up to factor 10! Please stand by, I will try to release this version as soon as possible. Michael (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi, working on a big project, I got a problem: I build, using many subparts, that have to be only placed around in the scene. But all editors go VERY slow, because of the amount of pieces (I know I could do it with an calculator and text editor). (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Help! - MLCAD won't read 754.dat
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(...) Okey-day. Consider them deleted. Steve (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:s1m5bs49sah2vvq...4ax.com... (...) is (...) *valid*, (...) next (...) Steve, Those two lines can just be deleted from the file. That's probably what you meant by cleaning up, but just to (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Joel Hoornbeek wrote... (...) The LDraw colors are 0-15, 32-47, 256-511 (and of course 16 and 24). New "unofficial" colors were defined for LDLite, 17-23, 25, 57. These have been adapted by MLCad and will soon be by L3P too. See also (URL) C. (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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As long as somebody is answering questions about color, maybe you can answer mine too. I've recently started using L3P as my conversion tool, and I've been quite happy with the results. However, it doesn't like some of the MLcad colors, such as (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Is there a way to make the color palette larger so that it displays more then 16 colors at once? Alternately, is there a way to move the colors around so that I can put the ones that i use more in the first 16 slots so that they show up in the (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hello, I am using MLCAD for a few days now, and i have a problem with selecting multiple parts that are close together. The program displays a bounding box around the selection and its not possible to select other parts that are close/behind to your (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Ralph Hempel writes: <SNIP> I'm thinking about rewriting the portion where MLCad displays the parts tree and the parts preview ... I thought about using resizeable tool-boxes ínstead of the panes, which makes it possible to have (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Ralph Hempel writes: <SNIP> (...) that (...) First there is a similar option existing already: Press 'I' and a dialog will pop-up, here you can enter the part number (with .dat) pressing ENTER or OK will insert the part. This (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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One thing I forgot to add was the ability to right-click the part preview (part select) window and have it float behind the actual MLCad window, or maximize until you select your part. The part preview should show as much info as possible. This (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Hi all. I've been looking around for a while now for a decent CAD program for modelling some of my work. I looked at MLCad some time ago and it was pretty decent even then! Back then, Michael was thinking about doing an RCX/Cybermaster (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Completely different approach then... I used the Raytrace software "Imagine" on the Amiga (quite some time ago) In Imagine there was a similar thing, objects break down in groups and groups break down in faces and faces break down in points. (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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SHIFT + Left klick will not work, since this is commonly used for extended selections. e.g. Click on a part, than SHIFT click on a part 3 lines below the first part and all parts between get selected too. Also CTRL + left klick is used already, (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I prefer the toolbar the most and the shortcut as close second. (...) I would like to see it like this: Normal left click selects the group the part belongs to. If the part doesn't belong to a group select the part itself instead. Shift + left (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Since many people asked for a grouping feature in MLCad, I would like to ask what you think is usefull and how the grouping feature should work. My suggestions so far: - User selects one or more parts and either selects GROUP from a menu or hits a (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) z- (...) Hi Michael I am very interested in doing this, however i am not a genius in programming, its a hobby (together with lego of course) not a profession. It could take a while before things are going. But if you have the patience... I (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Guido Heunen writes: < SNIP > (...) Cool, how about writing a plug-in for MLCad? If you are interested than just drop a note here, and I pass on the information required for a dat->xxx converter. It's still not finished but we (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) DAT->PostScript (...) MLCad (...) that (...) I would like to try to write a DAT->postcript converter if no one else is doing it. But give me some time. I just got a phostcript manual and it seems fairly easy to write a phostcript file. I just (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Michael Lachmann wrote... (...) Sorry, they do seem to work on NT too. I assumed Index was something à la Index in DevStudio/Help/Search... And I cannot tell any difference whether I click on "Contents" or "Index". /Lars (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) BFC is for Back Face Culling. There's been some attempt to define an extension to LDraw, allowing the parts library to include information needed for BFC. There's a semi-formed proposal at (URL). Looking at the revision date, it's exhibiting a (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Thanks for pointing those out. I think those lines should be viewed as *valid*, but not *well-formed*. I'll clean them up, and put the correction in the next parts update. Steve (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Ok, thank you, I will implement this into the program. But wy does index and contents not work for you, or in which case? Michael (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Michael Lachmann" wrote... (...) If it fails, you could try launching the user's preferred browser by calling: ShellExecute(0, "open", "MLCAD.htm", NULL, NULL, 0); However, you will miss the Index and Contents buttons (which I cannot get to work (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) You must be doing some interesting optimizations for the drawing? It doesn't seem any harder to render the last N parts than the first N? (...) I also noticed that when you delete a part, MLCad jumps back to the start of the list. It would be (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) alternate (...) ... (...) I agree it's better than the current system and not really modal operation but I still find it unintuitive. There is no obvious reason why vertical movement should be zoom and horizontal movement should be pan. Worse, (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) A DAT->PostScript converter would be awesome, either as a stand-alone utility, or as a plug-in to MLCad. But I don't think it needs to be in the core of MLCad (in other words, maybe someone else can work on this besides Michael? Not that I'm (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Gestural activation is way different than true modal operation - there is no additional interface component (the "specification of operation" is part of the operation itself) and there is no state change either before or after the operation. (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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The problem is in the dat file itself, due to another problem in MLCad it is reported as if it would not exist. The file 754.dat contains some illegal character-combinations in the lines 29 and 30. Both start with "01" instead of "0" or "1". The (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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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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