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There is a bug in the generated partslist when using a new color. For example when I use a part with color 81 Metalic_Green it reports as Chrome_Black. See: (URL) this be resolved with a change in ldconfig or is a real bug in MLCad 3.30? Jaco (14 years ago, 11-May-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) IMHO if the rotvector field is active when pressing OK, it should pop up that dialog (or maybe even ignore changes altogether and close the dialog - I do not know nor do I care) if |angle| > 180. Nowhere else. I'd personally want this be fixed (...) (14 years ago, 17-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Have you been authoring parts again? I thought your therapist warned you about that???? ;) ROSCO (14 years ago, 17-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Oh yeah. I encountered this one the other day too. The angle gets set to a very large number. I believe that the normal/angle mapping only applies to rotations, not scaling and should be ignored when ||R||!=1. Tim (14 years ago, 16-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hello Michael, I have a problem while parts authoring. When I have insert a new primitive and changing the first time it's values, like the size, evrything works fine. But when I want to change the size or so again. Then the "position & orientation" (...) (14 years ago, 16-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCad.ini 2009-03 Update Now Available
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(...) Willy, You caught most of the parts that got moved to new numbers, except for: 982.DAT 981.DAT Thanks as always for keeping this file up to date. Allen (14 years ago, 15-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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(...) Also I am thinking that we have to use the original color values for the color 0 - 15 to build the blended colors. Otherwise we get other colors. This range should be known by every LDraw related application.and only overwritten by entries (...) (14 years ago, 12-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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--SNIP-- (...) Good thinking. Since the old colours were derived from the EGA colour palette I reckon the dithers would have to be derived from it too. Otherwise you could end up with some very different blends. I like your signature ;) Tim (14 years ago, 12-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) If you have any question regarding this, please don't hesitate to contact me, as I have already made DATHeader using this new feature. (...) Yes, I miss that as they are used in parts already. But others already have answered this question (...) (14 years ago, 11-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) That is exactly what I was thinking about last days. First load MLCad standard colours (like they have been for year). Then replace all the colors for that you will find an entry in the LDConfig.ldr. I would prefer to really keep the blended (...) (14 years ago, 11-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) LDView's blending code was originally written to handle LDLite's 0 COLOR syntax, since that is what was originally used in LDConfig.ldr. LDLite's syntax allows for the dithering of two arbitrary colors, either or both of which can themselves (...) (14 years ago, 11-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Exactly! But there is a work-arround patch available - which has to be introduced into the source code :-< Michael (14 years ago, 11-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I've been surprised by some of this discussion of dithered colors, because when Foundry was created (not by me), it was done as a "clean room" project, based entirely off of specs, so it's the closest thing out there to a reference parser, and (...) (14 years ago, 11-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) It sounds like you already discovered the root cause of this, but just in case you haven't, MFC's CDC::TabbedTextOut() always crashes in Print Preview mode in Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1. --Travis (14 years ago, 10-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) How about just "use the 'dithered' range but apply LDConfig on top of them, overriding any colour that gets in the way"? -Santeri (14 years ago, 10-Feb-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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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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