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This is either a request for info on MLCad, or a feature request, I'm not sure. I would like to be able to load a model, go into edit view and move down a bunch of parts, orient the oblique view so the parts are all visible, then print a picture of (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCAD rotation (future request)
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(...) The original definition for MPD states that data before the first 0 FILE statement will be ignored. This is because it was assumed that MPD streams would appear mostly in e-mail messages with included DAT content. Something like: ===...=== Hi! (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCAD rotation (future request)
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(...) But an include function is different from a subfile function. Basically, anything in a subfile is scoped to that subfile, and doesn't exist outside of the subfile. Yet another reason for a 0 INCLUDE (or 0 MACRO) meta-statement. Steve (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Rubber bands? [DAT]
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This model, called the litewing, uses a rubber band to turn the engine when the wheels move. I built the ruber band piece by bent piece using a light saber blade that I scaled down. To make a part smaller, it's best to put it into the default center (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Questions
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|I also have some questions, having just installed MLCAD 1) Is there a CAD/LDRAW/MLCAD FAQ anywhere? 2) When you download a file from cad.dat.models, how do you know if it should be a DAT file or a MPD file? 3) Why, when i click the DAT link in the (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Suggestion?
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So you could make it an option in settings. I think it would be a great option to add. Thanks, Adam Michael Lachmann <m.lachmann@xpoint.at> wrote in message news:FzDAFD.LGy@lugnet.com... (...) missing (...) the (...) previous (...) the (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCAD rotation (future request)
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(...) An MPD header, hmmm? Handy for storing metadata, non-DAT directives, loose change, etc... I *really* like this idea. How many MPD-capable tools would need changes to allow this? Is non-DAT content before the first 0 FILE generally ignored? (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCAD rotation (future request)
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(...) Cool! :-, (...) (Also answering Steve's post) Nah, I wasn't thinking of restricting it to a sub-file only, but rather to have the option of doing so. In fact, for simple one-off models (which the majority of mine are, anyway), it would be best (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Rubber bands?
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(...) Right now, there isn't any good way to handle rubber bands in L-CAD programs. LDraw's language was written to handle objects that don't change size or shape. The current popular approach to strings, rubber bands, tubes, hoses, etc. is to avoid (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Rubber bands?
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(...) It should be possible. You can add a ring (with the diameter of the rubber band) and curve it like you do with flexible hoses It should work but it is a lot of work. See Richard Goldfinder's bezier curve generator (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Rubber bands?(Ignore.: Smart*ss answers)
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Smart*ss answers: 1. Just put one end around the post, and stretch it around the other post. Or 2. The same way you add any other CAD part on a Mac. :) Sorry, nevermind. (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Rubber bands?
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Good question!! I have no idea .... not yet .... Michael Peter A. Vogel <pavogel@pacbell.net> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: FzD2F9.FwC@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Suggestion?
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I guess with plop you mean dropping it ... than it's clear. If you add a part by hotkey 'A' the position is inherited from the previous one, if you drag and drop it, than it uses the position where you place it, the missing coordinate value which (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCAD rotation (future request)
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I like this idea of storing the rotation data. But I wouldn't restrict it to mpd but store it in any dat file ... This allows having different rotation points per sub-model. I will forsee something like the statement suggested from Sproaticus (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Golden Astronaut helmets? and Breastplates?
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"Hakan Tandogan" <hakan@iconsult.com> wrote in message news:yxwr97z5z5t.fsf...plus.de... (...) According to the ldraw faq, gold is color 334. It ends up looking somewhat orange, but it's not too far off. I don't know if l3p recognizes it as gold and (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Rubber bands?
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How does one add rubber bands (the kind that come with a lot of Technic sets, esp. the star wars sets) to a model in MLCad, or any other lego cad program for that matter? Thanks, -Peter (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCAD rotation (future request)
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(...) Cool idea. (...) Is there an advantage to stuffing them in a separate subfile, other than neatness? That approach *requires* the use of MPD for storage. If they could scoped to be 'located' in specific subfiles (or the main file), that would (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Suggestion?
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I turned off shading and turned on BFC, it seemed to improve speed a little. The settings you mentioned below were already set. I still have the problem with drag/dropping 'plopping' new parts into the window. Why don't they take on ALL the position (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCAD rotation (future request)
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(...) An idea, straight out of left field: named rotation centers. Why restrict yourself to just one? It should be possible to have *several* user-defined rotation centers, and when the user wants to rotate a subpart, MLCad could use the *current* (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Suggestion?
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Adam Howard <abhoward10@hotmail.com> skrev i en nyhedsmeddelelse:FzB...net.com... (...) as (...) keep (...) in (...) to (...) layer, (...) I second that. I even made a icon for that :-) But I thourght it sounded silly at the time. So I diden't send (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCAD rotation (future request)
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Michael Lachmann <m.lachmann@xpoint.at> skrev i en nyhedsmeddelelse:FzB...net.com... (...) I think no. 3 is unnecessary. You'll be able to do that, by setting user-set-rotation-point to (0,0,0). (...) As above, I think Rotate-via-world-origin might (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Suggestion?
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(...) Could you start using sub-models. I've found it is a lot easier to break down models into sub-models. I can then work in an uncluttered view of just the area I'm working on. I've been doing mostly mechs, so it is real easy to break things (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCAD rotation (future request)
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Ok, I will think on this too. Just a summary: There are four options for a single part rotation: 1 - Rotate via origin of the part 2 - Rotate via center of part 3 - rotate via world origin(0/0/0) and 4 - rotate over a user set rotation point. For (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Suggestion?
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The sounds like a good idea. However you should check your settings, and see if the Position for new part is not centered, and the draw to selection only option is disabled .... this slows down very much. Thanks, Michael Adam Howard (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Suggestion?
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Hi Mike! I've been working on a large model and have run into the slowwwiiiinnnnggg-dowwn wall. Whenever I add a new piece or rotate a selected one it seems to take forever. I'm not sure, but I believe it is because MLCAD re-renders the whole model (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCAD rotation (future request)
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(...) Um, me too. :-, Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCAD rotation (future request)
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It would also help if there were menu commands/tool buttons to move the rotation point to the world origin or the local origin. Steve "who posted all these messages while I was on vacation?" Bliss (...) (24 years ago, 13-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Golden Astronaut helmets? and Breastplates?
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Hi, I'm using MLCad to model an "Original Model" (6457 from 1999, sorry no scan on brickshelf) for the inventory and model repository; but with a few pieces, I'm pretty much stumped: 1) MLCad doesn't seem to have a color for those "golden" helmets. (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Re: tubing
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(...) If I ever had to model string I probably would use a scaled cylinder... I would like to see your part become official! It's very useful. (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: tubing
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(...) I don't think that users would normally want to scale parts. The part you were presented with just now is probably the exception: No other parts in the LDraw library should be scaled to other sizes than the ones they come in. But then again, (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: tubing
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(...) Cool. That worked. I had to edit the MPD by hand, though, I could not just edit the matrix values in MLCad directly. I think I found an MLCad quirk though. With non unit scaling/rotation factors I found that I could not move the part in the (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCAD rotation (future request)
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I will but this onto the list for V2.1 since V2.0 is in testing phase right now, there are a lot of nice little things in this version, and I don't like to make this version unstable now. Michael Jeff Boen <onyx@flash.net> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: how do I combine 2 models in mlcad to render one image?
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(...) Don't feel bad Jon, heck i'm pretty much experience because i learn very fast but that tip will help alot now...of course learning too much too fast wont help me right now, especially tough things like java, flash, html and several other thing (...) (24 years ago, 6-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | MLCAD rotation (future request)
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I know I've brought this up before.. and I still feel it is an important point. The current method of roation if MLCAD is far more limited than the method available in LEdit. Although I appreciate the new option to rotate via world origin or object (...) (24 years ago, 5-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: how do I combine 2 models in mlcad to render one image?
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"Randy Williams" <r_r_williams@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:FytJMo.A5r@lugnet.com... (...) part (...) Oh wow thank you SO much! Thats really easy. Shows you what a newbie to ldraw I am. Jon. (24 years ago, 5-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: how do I combine 2 models in mlcad to render one image?
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yes, just open one part of you model (most likely the center.) then rightclick on the modeling area, go to add, then part. then click custom part and load your other dat file. thats it! (24 years ago, 5-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | how do I combine 2 models in mlcad to render one image?
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I'm trying to make a rendered image of my microfig space ship. I was planning on making 4 seperate models in mlcad and then combining them into one file so I could then render the whole ship. I checked the mlcad tutorial and learned how to import a (...) (24 years ago, 5-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | NT4 and GPFs in 1.9r4
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Has anyone else had problems with large models when trying to move the view? (zoomed in on model, needed to scroll in the view window to work on another section) I decided to throw together a rough Death Star Trench with the X-Wing, Darth's Tie, and (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Request
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Some of this things will be available with the next version. Michael Gino A. Melone <gmelone@columbus.rr.com> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: FyopuI.Ex7@lugnet.com... (...) have two (...) So (...) the (...) angle. I (...) over. (...) and (...) pane. (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Feature Request
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This is not so easy and depends very much on the design ... currently it's not realy multi-threaded but I will analyse the possibility of that, should not be a too hard job anyway. Michael Mike Poindexter <lego@poindexter.cc> schrieb in im (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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