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(...) Hi Derick, I'll try to explain how I go about doing that kind of work. I recently build the 8880 which needed a lot of angle adjustements. First step: Open a new file - set the grid mode to coarse. Now let's say the beam of your crane is 8 (...) (24 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Like Lar, I set the fine rotation to something smaller than 15 degrees. However, I also move the center of rotation (little square on the center of the part) to the approximate correct position. I then click the button which looks like a brick (...) (24 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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The file is 3.5kb - it must be the crane site that's slowing the D/L Ahhhh - I didn't realize that I could change the granularity of the "fine Grid" rotation... Many thanks, Lar! -Derick (...) (24 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) How close are you looking to get? (very slow link right now, so didn't try to download the file you have so far) (...) When I need to rotate parts I hardly ever use the rotation/position menu. I just go into fine mode (you can set the (...) (24 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Get yourself a recent copy of WinZip and you can specify exactly where things get unzipped to. Hope that helps, if not, ask again. ++Lar (24 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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A few days ago I described in passing my desire for thicker lines in renderings, perhaps as an option. I'm wondering how hard of an enhancement that would be? I've spent a little time with LDLite and it's difficult to get the same easy renderings of (...) (24 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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My first foray into MLCAD seems to have been ill-chosen for its' difficulty - I would very much appreciate it if anyone can help. The dat file in question is here: (URL) model is a short length of reinforced bridge span, in one dimension, that (...) (24 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Merry Christmas
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Wow! Merry Christmas, Michael. :-) Best of Luck with the little one... -Andy Lynch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Lachmann" <michael.lachmann@lm...tware.com> (...) (24 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I wish everyone a merry christmas! For us (my wife and me) it's already christmas since we got a little baby boy called Florian two days ago :-)))))) I've to say sorry for any delay happening now - but suddenly we are a bit busy now (I realized that (...) (24 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | LDraw Installation
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I hate to ask an obvious question, but I can't seem to figure it out. How do you extract the MLCAD zip file to the LDraw directory? Thanks Steve (24 years ago, 23-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | MLCAD ideas for part authoring
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I have a suggestion for making MLCAD more useful for part authoring. It would be cool if there were a special mode for part authoring. While in this mode, instead of the part lists to the left, you would have primitive and subfile lists. The same (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | ATTENTION NEW WEB-SITE AND E-MAILS
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As from today all requests to the old home-page are forwared to my new web-server! The new web-addresses are: Home-Page: (URL) MLCad : (URL) lot of redesigns will happen in the next weeks on this server ... My new e-mail addresses are: (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Free-Form Camera Positioning with MLCAD, L3P, and POV-RAY
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Yes - It would be great to have a camera file. We would need a "lookat" file as well. Thanks again Michael for such an excellent piece of software. I have to say that (besides LEGO), its one of the best toys I've ever had! Brad Michael Lachmann (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org announces new MLCad subdomain and re-organization of resources
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Alright, alright, nevermind. I was mis-remembering what version I was running. The jump from 1.9 to 1.99 confused me. That, and the fact that I just work up... I am running the newest version... <sigh> Can't wait for the next one Michael! You are (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org announces new MLCad subdomain and re-organization of resources
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The new site looks great, but I have one little question. I am currently running MLCAD 1.99R4, but when I follow the link from mlcad.ldraw.org to Michael's site, I can only find MLCAD 1.99R1. Is there a reason for this? -Andy Lynch ----- Original (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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| | LDraw.org announces new MLCad subdomain and re-organization of resources
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For the past week, I have been working with Michael Lachmann and Jacob Sparre Andersen to give LDraw.org a more MLCad focus. We are proud to announce the new subdomain at LDraw.org: (URL) notice there's not much there yet. Because of some unforseen (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !!
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| | Re: MLCAD Suggestions
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The next version of MLCad will support reloading of the project / model - which means (revert to saved). Michael -- ===...=== Ing Michael Lachmann Individual software development Tel.: +43 676 406 86 95 e-mail: michael.lachmann@lm-...ftware.com (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Free-Form Camera Positioning with MLCAD, L3P, and POV-RAY
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I've never tried to use camera options until now, but I think we can enhance that if we have a camera-file (like the light.dat) which L3P counts in. This way it's easy to define the camera - position and orientation ... Regarding the description (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | New Colors
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Can anyone pass on the numbers of the new colors? (i.e. grays other than light/dark grey, LoM colors, grey green from the Statue of Liberty Sculpure) Thanks. (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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I've been meaning to suggest the same thing! John VanZwieten <john_vanzwieten@email.msn.com> wrote in message news:G5KD1w.D0H@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Free-Form Camera Positioning with MLCAD, L3P, and POV-RAY
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Hi, This is a little write-up I did on free-form positioning of the camera. It is taken from several posts by myself and others on LUGNET. Tim Courtney has asked for new material for www.ldraw.org focusing on MLCAD, L3P and POV-RAY, so I offered to (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCAD Suggestions
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(...) mlcad (...) If the model is not right , it may be easier to open it with ldview. then you can just recreate the hose untill it looks right. (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I insert hoses like this : first I create my model in mlcad, then I create the hose in ldraw-mode and name it hose1.dat last part of my model in mlcad is hose1.dat then I save my model in mlcad and if the hose is not right, then I change it in (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi, I will see what I can do :-) Michael -- ===...=== Ing Michael Lachmann Individual software development Tel.: +43 676 406 86 95 e-mail: michael.lachmann@lm-...ftware.com http: www.lm-software.com John VanZwieten <john_vanzwieten@email.msn.com> (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Andy Lynch" <andy@andyandjackie.com> wrote in message news:G5IsLC.FuB@lugnet.com... (...) it (...) and Y (...) as (...) becomes (...) the (...) I agree that this would be very helpfull. Since parts are often added in "layers", it makes sense for (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Adding new pieces in MLCad
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MLCad being a Windows based program, I often find myself using "drag and drop" to place my next piece into my DAT file. If, for instance, I drop it into the "Front" view, then the piece goes into the DAT file at the X and Y location that is (...) (24 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I will think about that things and post my suggestions here. Michael John VanZwieten <john_vanzwieten@email.msn.com> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: G5GoHx.AD8@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Suggestion
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On the Print Picture screen, it would be nice if it would remember the options and picture size you select (at least while MLCad is still running). -John Van (24 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: License - again
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Bram Lambrecht writes: [snip] (...) Filip Spacek did the conversion. (...) It would be great if when/if MLCad started allowing plugins, someone wrote a converter to POV which worked directly in MLCad. This would make life a bit (...) (24 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org Future Plans/Help
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When I started using MLCAD/L3P/POV-RAY, I had quite a few issues. - Installation - The existing ldraw.org was pretty good in instructing how to find and install these things. However, I had to wade through a bunch of stuff to figure out that these (...) (24 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Custom Built LEGO Sets in 2002
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(...) If I remember correctly, LDLite cheats lines towards the user by 1LDU, so they are more likely to show up. This would also mean that they are more likely to bleed through from other surfaces. Again, that's if I remember correctly. (...) Can (...) (24 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Part rotation point
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"Michael Lachmann" <m.lachmann@xpoint.at> wrote in message news:G5FxIw.746@lugnet.com... (...) different (...) the (...) So are you talking about two types of part-based rotation points: rotation points contained in the part file _and_ user-defined (...) (24 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I thought it this way: o Each part can have several custom rotation points - each with a different name for the user o The user can select the general rotation point strategy (e.g. world origine, part center ... part rotation point). o Here I (...) (24 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I noticed one of Marc Klein's parts had comments for a part rotation point. I assume this is because he used MLCad to open the part and saved it. It got me thinking, though. What if a part file had extended commands for custom part rotation points (...) (24 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Sugestions and Requests.
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Michael Lachmann wrote in message ... (...) When you do the save partslist to file, there's no checkbox for the steps and you get everything separated by step. It would be great to have the option (I'm currently sucking the file into Foxpro and (...) (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I'd be interested in it. I used one of the methods suggested, and while it works ok for me I plan on making the DAT file publicly available and I want it to be to be "correct." If you want to post it somewhere and provide the URL that'd be (...) (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCAD Suggestions
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"Michael Lachmann" <m.lachmann@xpoint.at> wrote in message news:G5AG5r.HpA@lugnet.com... (...) allow (...) "Inlining" means replacing a reference to a file with the contents (individual lines) of that file, but with each line transformed according (...) (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCAD Suggestions
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"Andy Lynch" <andy@andyandjackie.com> wrote in message news:029801c06082$b2...lth.com... (...) option (...) but to (...) then (...) would (...) disk (...) references to (...) could (...) files. (...) model (...) allow you (...) sure) (...) MPD (...) (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Custom Built LEGO Sets in 2002
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:G5ErKD.CCC@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) corner (...) rendering (...) again, (...) If I remember correctly, the previous version of LDLite handles .mpd's better. (...) Me too! (...) (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | RE: MLCAD Suggestions
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(...) Instead of just on/off, why not have the option be for setting n...the level of undos from 0 to some arbitrary number (possibly with some limit)? --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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