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(...) Arghl! I guess this happens only with V3.3? I never noticed that with 3.2. (13 years ago, 23-Jan-11, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I just want to inform that MLCad does not handle the ~Moved to files in a good way. If you are asked for updating to newer parts the new reference will be written into your current file, but if there is any transformation this will not be taken into (...) (13 years ago, 23-Jan-11, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Well, it's been a while since I've checked, and now there's a forum dedicated to SR3DBuilder, which looks like the best solution by far to what I'm looking for. It still doesn't run on Linux, but that is exactly one of the topics on the forum: (...) (14 years ago, 19-Oct-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Many thx Tim, feel free to post it to all other groups and discussion boards you're signed on. w. (14 years ago, 5-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I've posted it to TBB and the FLickr LDraw group for people who might actually need it ;) Tim (14 years ago, 5-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi, I can't think of a place more inappropriate for this announcement considering the high talented people visiting these groups. Anyway, here: (URL) find a new basic tutorial for MLCad. It has been fought as substitute for the outdated tutorial by (...) (14 years ago, 4-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.announce) !
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(...) Use the 'net, Luke! (URL) -- joshua (14 years ago, 19-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Dang, I wish I knew French! That is a pretty intense web page, and the results look amazing! Someone's been busy adding new belt and hose types! Also, Don, you've done a great job on the trickiest of the math bits. Thanks! Kevin (...) (14 years ago, 19-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) There's a tutorial in French here that appears to expand on Willy's tutorial. (URL) on the pictures it looks like there are plenty of examples of rubber bands and belts. Have fun, Don (14 years ago, 17-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) LeoCAM had a really rudimentary "snap-to" functionality added to LeoCAD. It didn't work entirely well, and was never entirely completed (as it was an academic proof, rather than an actual attempt to create a functionality). The sources have (...) (14 years ago, 17-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Hi Andrew, This is not really a detailed tutorial, but the usage example I posted on this page shows rubber bands, including sample files: (URL) this helps. Jim (14 years ago, 17-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I have been playing around with MLCAD and LSynth, and have had lots of luck when generating point-to-point and point-through-point items like cables and hoses. However, I have had exactly no luck trying to generate rubber bands and belts. I see (...) (14 years ago, 17-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) You could try to track down a copy of leoCAM. Maybe that'll do it. Or perhaps some of the leoCAM features have migrated back into leocad? I don't know, but it might be worth a look. Good luck, Don (14 years ago, 15-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Well, after a long discussion with Sergio via e-mail and a period of trying different things, it appears that SR3DBuilder will only run (both now and in the future) on a native installation of Windows (not even a virtual machine) that has a (...) (14 years ago, 14-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi, I just updated the MLCad.ini file accordingly to the latest LDraw.org parts update 2010-02. 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, 5-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.announce)
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(...) Wow! I think you're right! SR3DBuilder looks exactly like what I'm looking for...except I'm on Ubuntu Linux and it doesn't work in Wine, where MLCAD is flawless. I asked Sergio about this through his website, so I'll see what he says. Thanks (...) (14 years ago, 20-Jun-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) That would be a great enhencement for MLCad and it should be possible. But I do not know how many hours Michael L. has to spend for that. If you want to try another application please try SR3DBuilder. As fas as I can see the required feature (...) (14 years ago, 23-May-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi, This is something that's been bugging me for a while, but since MLCAD is free software and very useful even without this feature, I haven't made much of a fuss about it. However, I thought I'd throw it out here so others can comment on it and so (...) (14 years ago, 22-May-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I duplicated the error, and it looks to be a bug in MLCAD. Scott W. (14 years ago, 11-May-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) The "Failed to create..." message has popped up for me when I have lost connection with a network drive. Sometimes it will give the same message if the drive takes too long to respond. Joseph (14 years ago, 11-May-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hello all, I got a question from someone who wants to create step images with MLCad but gets the dialog "Failed to create the file!" Ofcourse I asked if he had permission to write to the place he wants to save the images or if there was enough (...) (14 years ago, 11-May-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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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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(...) 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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