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(...) Mine settings are movement Large Move(XYZ)=10 Rotate(XYZ)=22.5 Medium Move(XYZ)=1 Rotate(XYZ)=15 Fine Move(XYZ)=0.001 Rotate(XYZ)=0.5 I spend most of my time in Medium and do ultrafine adjustments in Fine. I do occasionally (namely when (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jun-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Admittedly, I have oft wished for the ability to create custom rotation buttons so I could make X,Y,Z buttons for 11.25,15,22.5,27.125,30 and 45 degree rotations to accomodate the rotation angles of various technic parts... But I still love (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jun-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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(...) It oughtn't be too hard to do that. You just use the pin to define your normal vector and then just work backwards from the projection to work out the rotation matrix. I noticed today that MLCad already seems to have a routine to calculate (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jun-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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(...) But, rotations are limited to parallel to the X,Y and Z planes, so I don't think you are addressing what I'm talking about. Imagin you had an axle that is at 45 degrees in the XY plane, and you have a biped leg you want to rotate around the (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jun-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Select the part you want it to pivot around then select the rest. It will always pivot around the pivot point of the first item selected. (...) You can make it visible and draggable with the mouse. (...) Down 2 LDU :) (19 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Are you sure you haven't switched wireframe or bounding box view on by mistake? Right click the window and check the menu options -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...ugnet.com] On Behalf Of Gerry (...) (19 years ago, 4-Jun-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi everyone, I am a new user and have a quick question. Is there anyway to add collor to what I call the 3D view. It is the window in the bottom right corner I am refering to. The other windows all have color except for that one. (19 years ago, 4-Jun-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Thanks! I'll look into the Blender thing and also grouping parts in MLCAD. I meet with this class every Thursday, so I have a week! (19 years ago, 29-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) (snip) for the arms and hands try the following (after creating the minifig): 1. group the arms with their hands. 2. next rotate this group (along the x-axis) head and accessories (hair,hats etc.) need to be grouped as well. rotating the legs (...) (19 years ago, 29-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I would suggest using Blender and import the mpd into if (LDraw Importer) and then alk him through that. It's really much less difficult then it seems. (...) (19 years ago, 28-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi Folks, I've got a 10 year old student who wants to create an animated minifig. He wants to create an animated gif by posing the minifig into a walking motion. Moving the arms and legs are easier while in the minifig generator. Unfortuantely, as (...) (19 years ago, 28-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Michael, I've been working on a new draft of LPub with lots of new features. In trying to increase the quality and reliability of LPub, I've been pushing a lot of models through LPub. I've really used the Arrow generator a lot. It is great! Thanks (...) (19 years ago, 24-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message [ ... snipped ... ] (...) [ ... snipped ... ] I highly recommend the O'Reilly "lex and yacc" book, I found it very helpful for a project I did at work a number of years ago. The moderated (...) (19 years ago, 11-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) You could also define an escape character, to accept the character following (including spaces) as part of the string. However, as the standard allows both / and \ as directory separators, it would require some character other than \ (a common (...) (19 years ago, 11-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) There are other possibilities too, for example: 7. You can exceed 8.3 but don't embed spaces or other sorts of whitespace 8. Limit filenames to only the character set legal for BrickShelf folders Not meant to be exhaustive, just to get (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I used them until I got a VERY bizarre image of the 10016 tanker in L3p/PovRay. I promptly switched to using hyphens prefixed by the model id :) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Well, technically ldlite has been around since well before MLCad, and it supports the double quotes, but MLCad is more widely used. So I guess you could make that argument either way. (...) I only asked for a recommendation, not a requirement. (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I'll do the same. (...) Hi Don, Nice post. GROUP commands are defined outside the LDraw spec, but I'd guess that the naming issues are the same. I just made a minor change to: 0 PLIST BEGIN SUB <file> // depricated 0 LPUB PLI BEGIN SUB <file> (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hmmm, I'm not sure if this effort is actually making things more compatible. (...) I just did a little testing myself. MLCad seems to strip off any whitespace (tabs and space characters) at the end of the line when it grabs the filename. Is that (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I am currently going through the L3P code and I have now added support for filenames with spaces, both in linetype 1 and in "0 FILE xxx". It now uses the rest of the line as the filename. It also accepts filenames in double-quotes. /Lars (19 years ago, 10-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Hi Don, Using MLCad as a benchmark, the name with blanks is *not* enclosed in quotes. I use the remainder of the line, sans end of line as the file name. Alas, my efforts are for naught. L3P quietly ignores the lines that have names with (...) (19 years ago, 8-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I think you made the right decision, but I have a question. Do the filenames with embedded spaces have quotes around them, or do they just use up all the space to the end of the LDRAW type 1 command line? The reason I ask is because I seem to (...) (19 years ago, 8-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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In lugnet.cad, Allan Bedford wrote: snip (...) snip (...) snip (...) Allan, Your opinions are valued. Thanks. I decided to take the pragmatic way out, and adjust my parsing to support file names with blanks. I think that warnings will lead to just (...) (19 years ago, 8-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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Hi Ludo, "ludo soete" <ludo.soete@village.uunet.be> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:IEBCD9.1zAH@lugnet.com... (...) 'Find' (...) You mean a find function inside the model, instead of a find function in the library right? Basically this is possible. I'll (...) (19 years ago, 6-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) You are right, but the error handling problem is larget than just blanks in file names. All of this boils down to the wimpy method that LPub uses to parse LDraw files. If you type in a meta-command “0 LPUB PIL”, rather than “0 LPUB PLI”, lpub (...) (19 years ago, 6-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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(...) I apologize in advance if this is a stupid solution but what about this: Is there a way for you to check for spaces in the file name as lpub attempts to open it? If so, can you then abort the file open process and throw a pop-up message that (...) (19 years ago, 6-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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(...) Hi Allan, In light of this article: (URL) I now have a dilema on this topic. Add code that makes me compatible with MLCad but violating the specification, or leave it as is and explain to people that MLCad does allow blanks in file names, but (...) (19 years ago, 6-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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(...) Hi Raj, The colour number for trans-white is 47. If you're using MLCad, you can choose it by clicking the "more" button on the colours toolbar, then scrolling down to find it. The trans colours are on the second page. Hope this helps. ROSCO (19 years ago, 5-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Newbie question here...is there a Trans-clear color on MLCAD, and if so, how does one choose it? Thanks. Raj (19 years ago, 5-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) If you know the LDraw part number, you can do a text search for the part but that doesn't necessarily help you in the context of finding it in your model. I have used that to change colors of certain parts and things like that. (...) I think (...) (19 years ago, 2-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi Michael, I'm working on a 'large' building with over 4000 pieces. Now i would like to find a single piece in my drawing, and looked for a 'Find' function. There seems to be no 'Find' function available in MLCAD V3.11. Is there a possibility to (...) (20 years ago, 2-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) there's actually two ways of doing smaller rotations:- 1: Edit>Rotate>Keyboard Entry... You will then get the 'Position and Orientation' window. You can use either the 'Use Rotational Vector Values' or 'Use Rotational Matrix Values' methods (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Hi Mitchell, Yes. It is possible to turn a 24th gear using MLCad. When you click on the gear (placed in the X/Y plane), you should see a small black square with a plus in it. This is MLCad's rotation point. If the rotation point is in the (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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In MLCad, is there a way to rotate the gear teeth of the 24 tooth gear by employing the "Z" element toolbar commands? The "Z" rotation command rotates the teeth for 8, 16, and 40 tooth gears, but only the internal bar and four holes rotate inside (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Things that are hard to do with LDraw and building instructions
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(...) Since LPub is not a renderer, it in fact does deal with models. Buffer exchange in LPub saves/restores the model up to the buffer exchange, not the images from steps. (...) This gets tricky...... I don't know how you can create a new group (...) (20 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Hi Michael, Thanks for the feedback. Yes, I use buffer exchange *alot*, and it works well for some cases, but not others. In the 8455 model, you start putting a hose in step 8, but you don't have enough of the model to hook up the other end of (...) (20 years ago, 11-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Yeah, in his first post Kevin said you could use Buffer Exchange and Ghost to acheive the effect, but it's not easy. This might be because those commands work on a series of images, but he's more comfortable thinking in terms of manipulating (...) (20 years ago, 11-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:ID5A6J.190M@lugnet.com... (...) they can (...) very hard (...) previous (...) For that I've introduced the BUFFER EXCHANGE command, see developer specification on my web-page (...) (20 years ago, 11-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) If this could be realised, were really there! I'd love to see this feature. Jaco (20 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Michael, Is this something you would be interested in adding to MLCad? I could add it as an LPUB meta-command, but it would be best if it were an MLCAD meta-command that LPub supports. Kevin (...) (20 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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