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(...) rendering (...) If this were to be implemented would MLCad still have an option to save in a standard DAT format (no hex code, etc) to allow for sharing MOC's with the majority of LEGO Cad users? I would love the ability to save my models as (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: General Comments to MLCad
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(...) Could you avoid writing out the file as a ".DAT" file extension if you are making extensions to the long established LDraw DAT file format? This would clear up confusion right away and avoid further incompatibility issues if other LDraw-clone (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | General Comments to MLCad
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Since I got various responses and comments since the last version, I will try to explain some things here and also try to start some sort of interest collection. Version 1.6 and custom colors: It is true that custom colors are not useable for LView (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: almost did it!
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MLCad also has the possibility of hiding parts during editing ... From a view or in the list right click and select "Hide". The parts are still shown in the list and can be modified there, but will not be drawn when working in the edit-mode. In the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: How to break up multi-dat files?
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I'm hardly working on previewing the sub-models. The problem with it is that if you edit a sub-model which is used in another sub-model (e.g. you have two sub-models A and B. A includes B and you are editing B) you are modifying the view of the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: hex values (was: Re: Loader)
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I thought LDLite is able to display this colors! If this is realy a problem I can change this to use comment lines defining these custom colors! Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Wonderful. So why does MLCad insert nonstandard data into LDraw DAT files? --Todd (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Ive used MLCAD to create a .BMP -> .DAT terrain file. It works okay in MLCAD, but when I try to load it into LDraw, I receive an error reading 216@0001:889D error. Why is that? Thanks, Mike (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: How to break up multi-dat files?
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I don't think that MLCad is able to show anything but X'es for sub-models (= document) at this moment. Djelle alias Mogens Sørensen ___...___ E-mail - Home: Djelle@Get2Net.dk ICQ: 38701158 J G Gregory <jgg@ultranet.com> wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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That's IT! THank you so much. That is exactly what I wanted to be able to do. But I wish someone would answer the preview X question. What is the proper way to make previews of things? --Jack Gregory Mogens Sørensen <Djelle@get2net.dk> wrote in (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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No need for breaking it up if you use MLCad. On top of the window with used parts is Active Model. Just select the model here. Djelle alias Mogens Sørensen ___...___ E-mail - Home: Djelle@Get2Net.dk ICQ: 38701158 Shaun Daniel Sullivan (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: stupid question?
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(...) cut and paste the text out to a file <filename.dat> using notepad (or your favorite text editor) once the file is saved to disk, go to MLCad and choose File | Open and choose the .dat file that you saved. J (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Since I'm new to all this CAD design I have a simple but troubling question for me. I see all the Ldraw data complied into all these post throughout LUGNET. How do take what has been posted and put that into MLCad? I tried to cut out the info from (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: How to break up multi-dat files?
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Hi Jack, I used LDraw to make the model, so I'm not sure what the preview X's are in MLCad. I can help you with your other question though. There are a bunch of programs you can use to collect multi-part models into one file. The one I used is MP (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | How to break up multi-dat files?
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I apologize for lack of terminology. Here is the question: I downloaded the AT-ST model posted a couple days ago, and want to build it. But it is a "multi" file or whatever they are called, and only has 5 or so parts at the top level. I really want (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: hoses
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(...) Ah, yes. Thanks for the correction! (...) I'm happy to hear that you liked it. I really want to finish off a few animations before I present it, though. So we'll see if I can get the time to do it during the Christmas holiday. :-) Fredrik (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: hoses
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Fredrik Glöckner wrote... (...) "hose-seg.dat" in both cases. Could you check that up, please? (...) to seeing that model. // Eric -- "The great thing about Lego isn't that you can build something out of it, the great thing is that you can build (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: hoses
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(...) I've also made a similar utility for GNU Emacs (available for free for most platforms). There is a description of the algorithm and a tutorial at (URL) need a PNG-enabled browser to see the Emacs screenshots. Sorry about that.) If all goes (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: hoses
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(...) Normally, you would have to assemble each section of the hose manually, which could be tedious. There's a great utility you could use (if you have MS Excel) that will help you make realistic hoses (though I haven't had that great of results). (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: hoses
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(...) The straight hoses, and the sections of hoses, should be under the H folder. For bent hoses, you have to make those as submodel files, special for each model/configuration. Steve (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I was wondering if the hoses can be used with MLCAD. I have all the updated parts lists and can't locate them in the menu on the right of the screen? Am I doing something wrong by chance or are they not there? Brett (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: almost did it!
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Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:5F5VOBMLJAdaxZN...4ax.com... (...) it got (...) model up (...) editing a (...) together. (...) LeoCAD has a very nice (IMHO) solution to this. It enables user to select which bricks (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: **** MLCAD V1.6 IS AVAILABLE NOW ****
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Thanks for the new MLCad. I like the new move-mode better than the sliders. There is still a fault in save picture. On almost all off the pics off the model I just tried, there is missing surfaces in some off the bricks. I can E-mail you one off the (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: almost did it!
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(...) I haven't used MLCAD extensively (yet), but I'm wondering if breaking a model up into several submodels would help? That way, you'd only be faced with editing a big scene in the last step, where you're putting all the sub-models together. (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCad wishlist
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(...) The box is the dialog. But it's still a 'mea culpa' -- I was talking about the newer version of LDAO, which never came out of beta. There were some healthy (in the sense of both good and sizeable) changes in the Inliner interface between 2.0.4 (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | almost did it!
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almost completed a <i>full</i> model in MLCAD (set 4554) but alas after it got to big.. mlcad was sl.o..w...i...n.. d....o....w......n mlcad is sweet, user frendly indeed.. but im sorry mike, ledit is always going to be faster. keep up the good work (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | **** MLCAD V1.6 IS AVAILABLE NOW ****
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MLCad V1.6 is available now! New features are: - Scrollbar less drawing and viewing areas - New Move-Mode for scrolling the model in the views - New Outline mode for fastest drawing - Enhanced Color Dialog for redefining colors or creating custom (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCad wishlist
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(...) OK, I did this with MLCad. (...) They're all in the model dir. Launching ldlite on the main (.dat) model file correctly displays the whole thing. (...) OK, did this (...) What dialog? All I get is a box displaying the file with three buttons (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCad wishlist
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Larry Pieniazek wrote: [How do I convert an MPD model to a single-file DAT model?] There are two steps to this operation: first you've got to split your MPD, converting the single MPD to several DATs. Then you've got to inline (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCad wishlist
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(...) OK, so how do I do it? when I press the inline button in LDAO with a model selected, I get a textbox with my file in it but I don't see any new file written, or any changes to the old file. So what am I doing wrong. Again, what I want to do is (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCad wishlist (was Re: Ice Cream
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Johannes Keukelaar wrote ... (...) The prog. always crashes for me, after the first picture. With a pagefault. Djelle alias Mogens Sørensen (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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In other words, A*B is not equal to B*A, when A and B are matrices. Steve (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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3D rotations are not transitive. --Jack Gregory Mogens Sørensen <Djelle@get2net.dk> wrote in message news:FMFuD4.6t4@lugnet.com... (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCad wishlist (was Re: Ice Cream
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Hi everybody. This is my first post on Lugnet :-) I just discovered MLcad (and LDraw) a few days ago. And I jumped in joy. I believe that it is nearly 20 years since I played with Lego. (...) As fare as I remembers, A*B is equals to B*A :-) But I (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Part Authoring
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(...) available (...) the (...) End, (...) Thanks Steve, that was easy - I'd wondered what the [View Moves] section was all about. So expect my authoring productivity to increase by at least 20% !!! Chris (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I don't think you're missing anything obvious. The LDAO editors look at two sections in ldraw.ini for which views to include in that dropdown, [Views] and [View Moves]. A view has to be defined in both sections. [Views] gives the viewing angle (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCad wishlist (was Re: Ice Cream
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(...) So they do! :-) But that requires holding your mouse over the same spot for 3 seconds. I just never have time to wait around. :-) BTW: the first square in the 3rd row is color 16 and the tooltip text for it is "main color" which pretty much (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I mainly use the LDAO editor for authoring. I find the highlight-CTRL-drag extrememly useful for copying coordinates from one line to another. The dynamic update of the LDLite rendering is invaluable, but on occasions have used MLCad due to (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCad wishlist (was Re: Ice Cream
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"LP" == Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> writes: LP> When the colors pop up, tell me the LDraw color numbers. Also, let LP> me pick 16 as a special choice. I can't right now tell if it's one LP> of the grays, not there at all or what. (I may hack (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Ice Cream
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(...) I like the CorelDraw idea. I think the best way to please both sides is to have a removable color bar and a drop-down list. If the color bar were to follow the true style of the Corel bar (which takes up very little room), you would be able to (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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