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(...) I can confirm that. While the LSC may have dithered over the spec, we certainly didn't drop "dither" intentionally. (Mind you, given the number of referenced specs we had to ratify first before we could get onto "the biggie", I'm surprised we (...) (14 years ago, 10-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I think Travis' wording may be confusing. Don't use "the old dither algorithm". MLCad 3.30 draws colors 256-511 as *solid* colors. That's better than using the stippling algorithm from previous MLCad versions. (No new/current software stipples (...) (14 years ago, 10-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Of course, I mean the blending, not the dithering... (14 years ago, 10-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Hmm. "You may think this is easy, but wait 'til I've explained it to you!" (One of my father's favourite standard joke.) I don't know how much difference it will make, but current standard colors are much better than the 16 original LDraw (...) (14 years ago, 10-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi, sorry to say, but I just found a bug in MLCad which is caused by the actual compiler I'm using. When you start printing preview in MLCad it is crashing when part lists are printed. I'm working on that .... Michael (14 years ago, 10-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Travis Cobbs" <tcobbs@REMOVEgmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:Kxn3yE.p2D@lugnet.com... (...) So I will take over parts of the build in color table in the range of 256 to 511. During this step the programm will convert these dittered colors (...) (14 years ago, 10-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) As it happens, the LSC has been dealing with this very issue for the past few months. There is no mention made of dither colors in any of the current LDraw specs (including the official parts restrictions). They somehow got dropped (...) (14 years ago, 10-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hello Don, (...) I thought the LDraw group doesn't allow any other colors than the standard ones? Even so I was in the assumption that I didn't create any special colors, but I toulk them over from some old spec where these colors where mentioned. I (...) (14 years ago, 10-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: German and Italian language add-on for MLCad 3.30 available
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(...) Hello Michael, thanks for the tip. With the new build Willy created everything works fine without editing the registry. I just put the dll to the directory and it worked. Thanks very much again Marco (14 years ago, 10-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Willy Tschager" <willy.tschager@tin.it> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:KxLGFx.5HL@lugnet.com... (...) Hello. OK. That works fine now. Regards Bernd (14 years ago, 10-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I noticed that when I remove LDConfig.ldr the old dithered colors are available, but no longer dithered. They're now solid colors. That's a big improvement! It makes the 256-511 rance of colors much nicer for printed patterns. (Dithered colors (...) (14 years ago, 9-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I rebuild a new version and also added the missing "Find...", "Find Again" to the "Edit2 menu. Please check. w. (14 years ago, 9-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Philo beat me to it but here's mine anyway: 1 4 0 0 -5 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 4-4disc.dat 1 2 0 0 -10 4 0 0 0 0 -4 0 1 0 4-4disc.dat 1 14 0 0 -15 5 0 0 0 0 5 0 -1 0 4-4disc.dat -Santeri (14 years ago, 9-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi Michael, (...) I just stumbled on the same problem. This single line is enough to show the problem (Impossible to change the transformation matrix): 1 1 0 0 -25 38 0 0 0 0 -38 0 1 0 48\4-4edge.dat Philo (14 years ago, 9-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hello Santeri, (...) Could you please save your file in such a case and send it to me for reproduction and testing? That would be of great help! Thanks for reporting! Best regards, Michael (14 years ago, 9-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Bernd Broich" <bernd.broich@online.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:KxL26J.Bsw@lugnet.com... (...) Hi, this is realy strange. I've got the version from Willy in advance and it worked. Now I've also downloaded the version from Willys web and that (...) (14 years ago, 9-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hello Michael (...) I'm currently looking into that. (...) ? I cannot understand. There is no such range, MLCad takes that what comes from LDConfig nothing more, nothing less. Dithered colors originally have been according to the original definition (...) (14 years ago, 9-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hello Michael, I just want to thank you for the constant work you're doing to develop and upgrade this tremendous tool! Regards (URL) Marco> (14 years ago, 9-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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"Marco Tagliaferri" <mtagl@web.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:KxKBDq.o9F@lugnet.com... (...) Hallo Willy, Marco, ich habe das gleiche Problem mit der deutschen DLL. Gruß Bernd (14 years ago, 9-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi folks, I upgraded the French language add-on for MLCad version 3.30. You'll find the .zip-files along with a tutorial for how to change the language interface here: (URL) Regards. Marc Klein (14 years ago, 9-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Hello Willy, (...) thanks for that fast update! (...) The german dll seems also quite short (380kB) wheras the italkian one has more than 700kB. Could you please check... Regards Marco (14 years ago, 9-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) That's something that has been around in the last version too. (...) I have another bug... in some cases I cannot manipulate the rotation matrix because the angle value in the vector field (which I never saw much use of anyhow) is something (...) (14 years ago, 8-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) This is excellent news Michael! Thank you so much for all of your hard work. We couldn't ask for anything more, especially since you do this for free! I hope that you know how much the entire community appreciates your effort! Many thanks, (...) (14 years ago, 8-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Now that I have installed MLCad and read all informations I hope we can get an update soon. I have two reason: 1) Implementation of language support is different to what we have implemented. 2) I miss the "dithered" colours. Not the dithered (...) (14 years ago, 8-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Thank you very much for updating MLCad to support LDConfig.ldr. I hope that this will not be the last update to this wonderful application. Now I have to see how it works. cu mikeheide (14 years ago, 8-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) You just ground my yawn to a halt. LDConfig support is something I've been wanting for a *very* long time. Now I can define my own background colour by using the unused colour 31. :P Love it. -Santeri (14 years ago, 8-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) BTW, this really deserves being posted on lugnet.announce as well!! (14 years ago, 8-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I would like to contribute to getting the Spanish language pack ready for MLCad 3.30. Please let me know how I can do this. Also, the search function doesn't work in any of the 3.20 language packs. Has that problem been fixed in 3.3? Regards, (...) (14 years ago, 8-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Thank you for this long awaited release! Now let's spread the word! Jetro (14 years ago, 8-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi folks, I upgraded the German and Italian language add-on for MLCad. Both add-ons are now fit for version 3.30. You'll find the .zip-files along with a tutorial for how to change the language interface at: German - (URL) - (URL) w. (14 years ago, 8-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.mlcad) !
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You made my day! Thanks, Michael!!! Philo (14 years ago, 8-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi, I would like to announce that I've just released a new version of MLCad! MLCad V3.30 What's new: - Development environment was changed to Visual Studio 2005 - Support for color definitions in LdConfig.ldr - Empty lines are no longer removed (for (...) (14 years ago, 8-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad) !!
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(...) Works fine for me. But the 42z gear is part 644 and 744 is a "moved to" file on my system William (14 years ago, 7-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Anyone else have trouble displaying Technic Gear 42 Tooth (744.dat) in MLCad? Be careful, on my system, it causes an immediate hard crash of MLCad, losing any changes in your dat file! I'm pretty sure that it's the first time that I've ever seen (...) (14 years ago, 7-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi folks, I just updated the MLCad.ini file accordingly to the latest LDraw.org parts update 2009-02. The .ini file defines (among other things) the parts available in MLCad's minifigure generator. Download the file from my website: (URL) w. (14 years ago, 30-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi folks, I just updated the MLCad.ini file accordingly to the latest LDraw.org parts update 2009-02. The .ini file defines (among other things) the parts available in MLCad's minifigure generator. Download the file from my website: (URL) w. (15 years ago, 17-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Ran into more trouble today when I tried to use LSynth from MLCad. LSynth complained it couldn't find the necessary LS** part no matter what type of synthesizing I tried. When I copied all the LS** files that are in the unofficial\LSynth (...) (15 years ago, 15-Jul-09, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) The theory behind the explanation is sound, but I don't see how is applies in this case. No files are actually missing: I can find all the files MLCad complains about in my LDraw\Unofficial\P\48 folder, and when I dump all the unofficial files (...) (15 years ago, 3-Jul-09, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Willy's explanation is correct. This part in the unofficial library references primitives that don't exist - anywhere (except maybe on the author's own system). So MLcad is unable to fully render it, even with a full copy of the unofficial (...) (15 years ago, 3-Jul-09, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) It's independent of a file. I start with an empty file and click on the Technic section of the parts tree and get a load of warnings about 48\peghole.dat and a number of other files that are missing. At the same time there is a big red X in (...) (15 years ago, 2-Jul-09, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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