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I have started an online ideas page, with directions created with MLCAD. All ideas come with a full parts list, usually in order of use, and all pages are printable. To view this page go to: (URL) am also taking idea at shi_web@hotmail.com , and you (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.publish, lugnet.town, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.basic, lugnet.boats, lugnet.castle, lugnet.sports)
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| | Re: New Reference Material on LDraw.org - Free-Form Camera Positioning... by Brad Hamilton
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Hi Tim, Thanks for posting this. I found a minor error. The first word under the 2nd heading "Background" should be "MLCAD," not "LCAD." Thanks Tim Courtney <tim@zacktron.com> wrote in message news:G6upCB.2FC@lugnet.com... (...) reference (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Question about MLCAD colors
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Joseph Cardana wrote... (...) Or provide an option like in L3Lab: "Color 24 as black". Try it! /Lars (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I agree with Lars Hassing about keeping it LDraw compatible, I was just thinking it would look better if the lines were displayed as black (unless a piece is black, then use dark grey) at all times. I tend to do screen shots at times and the bright (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Question about MLCAD colors
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(...) The edge colours are also posted in the LDraw FAQ, I think. I'm pretty sure the list has been posted once or twice to lugnet.cad.dev, where the poster has a copy of the LDraw source code. Steve (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | New Reference Material on LDraw.org - Free-Form Camera Positioning... by Brad Hamilton
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Just uploaded Brad's reference article - Free-Form Camera Positioning with MLCad, L3P, and POV-Ray to the LDraw.org server. Check it out at: (URL) you like what you see and have a skill you can share, write for the reference section at LDraw.org! (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Question about MLCAD colors
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"Joseph Cardana" wrote... (...) The reason is to be LDraw compatible... I got the edge colors from a creating a model with 16 bricks in 16 colors, saving a bitmap in LDraw, and looking at the RGB values. You can see those edge colors in (URL) guess (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Question about MLCAD colors
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Good question - currently MLCad does not support changing the edge color - but it should do ... I've got the color definitions from the LDLite source code. I must admit, that I never asked about the edge colors. I have no idea from where they are (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Question about MLCAD colors
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Michael, In reference to the Main and Edge colors... If I color a part red the edges are bright red. Is there a way to have the edge colors black or dark gray? Is there a reason for the odd edge colors? Joe (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCad Question: Snapshots.
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(...) Well, after tinkering with it, I figgured out you could put a rotation step at the end. Thanks for the Help!! (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCad Question: Snapshots.
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You must change the 'settings': Than click 'General' and than 'change'... In this screen you must change the 'default 3D rotation angles' in the 'Document' part. Try for example :(x,y,z) 10,-30,-5 70,-10,10 10,-20,0 23,45,0 Good Luck! Iemke-P. (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Free-Form Camera Positioning with MLCAD, L3P, and POV-RAY
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Yes - you are right. I was confused by some of the scaling and rotation primatives at the end of the .pov ray file. I'll change this. thanks Lars C. Hassing <lch@ccieurope.com> wrote in message news:G620En.FGp@lugnet.com... (...) If (...) point (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | MLCad Question: Snapshots.
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Is there a way, that you can change the angle you take the snapshot at? So that you can take pictures from diffrent angles on the model? -Help would be appreciated. (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie!
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(...) Wow, this is amazing, worth the time it took me to find a player that would understand it (Windows media player and Real Player 7 did not, Quicktime did.). George (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie!
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Yeah, great movie! But we should not continue this discussion on lugnet.cad.mlcad. I have a feeling it does not belong here. Greetingz... Sjaacko (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie!
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(...) To make the 17th reply, YOUR MOVIE IS AWESOME! I haven't had a chance to see the original yet (although I have read the book), but your expert use of a camera, and the plotline, made it beyond words. Of course, some people cannot appreciate (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Real monolith
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(...) Yeah, I watched that on the local evening news. Wait a second, this thing pops up in Seattle (location of SEALUG) days after Mark Sandlin disappears for a week. Did Mark, or some other member of SEALUG make this? If so, please come forward! (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie!
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(...) Yeah it takes a LONG time! I started it downloadng at 8:30. It's 10:14 now and I'm still only 89% done... Wowza.. Can't wait to watch it!!! Matt (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie!
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(...) Heck, it takes a while even with DSL... But well worth it. It's absolutely f***ing brilliant. :) I see everyone's now using my style of monolith. :) -- -Bones- = (URL) = NecroBones Enterprises (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie!
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Wow!.. It took forever to download (56k modem, slow connection, 2k/sec mostly) but worth well. It is very nicely done..:-) Selçuk (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie!
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(...) Yes indeed! Very cool work, especially the psychedelic cascade of bricks! In other news: (URL) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Real monolith
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Surely by now, you've seen this? (URL) J. Sayatovic mailto:trin@1.net (replace '1' with 'one') "Marc Atkin" <atkin@cs.umass.edu> wrote in message news:G6HEGD.8M2@lugnet.com... (...) Lego (...) and (...) it's (...) movie, (...) did (...) minute (...) (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie!
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Impressive! Royce (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie!
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I don't mean to assume, but I'm interested in how you did this. Judging by the QT format is it safe to say you used some type of digital video camera (like the every day Hi8 / Digital8 Cameras) and transferred it over firewire to something like (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie!
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(...) Please tell me! What equipment/software did you use? Darrell King darrellk@pixelmonkey.net (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie!
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My two little boys and I loved it! They kept saying "Again!" We must have watched it 5 or 6 times. -Chuck (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie!
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I loved it, but my 6yr old didn't get it. At first anyway. He watched it again and thinks it's the best of the 5 Lego films I showed him. BRAVO!!! (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie!
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(...) <snip> That is the coolest thing I have seen in a long long long time. The BURP is excellent. ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie!
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That was great! After watching it about 3 1/2 times it keeps getting better. By far the best part was when the guy in "LEGO Today" saw his brick and it was a burp and he frowned! That was great! Awesome movie! --Kyle LUGNUT# 791! (URL) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie!
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WOW! That is really amazing. Excellent job! I love the ending, so true to KuBRICK's own vision! ;-) (...) it's (...) movie, (...) minute (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie!
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Marc, That was fantastic! Great work. To anyone thinking about downloading it: It IS worth the wait. J- "Marc Atkin" <atkin@cs.umass.edu> wrote in message news:G6HEGD.8M2@lugnet.com... (...) Lego (...) and (...) it's (...) movie, (...) did (...) (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie!
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THAT WAS EXCELLENT! Any plans for "2010: Odyssey Two" when that year arrives????? Adrian "Marc Atkin" <atkin@cs.umass.edu> wrote in message news:G6HEGD.8M2@lugnet.com... (...) Lego (...) and (...) it's (...) movie, (...) did (...) minute (...) (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie!
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Okay so I just watched it again and it's even better the second time. Good work Marc. (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie!
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Uh.....wow. Yeah that's definately some very nice work....in fact it kinda makes me want to watch the real famed film that I have yet to see for real. Sweetness sound and stuff. And the "LDRAW-flying through space with the bricks on either side" (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie!
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Hi all, It is my very great pleasure to announce that my newest movie, "2001: A Lego Odyssey" is now playing at a website near you! It's been a labor of love, and one of the reasons I got a digital camcorder in the first place. Of course it's a (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: My first model,please look
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Gary, I don't care for command line parameter either. I created a simple batch file and called it CONVERT.BAT There is a variable, so all you type is CONVERT FILENAME No need for an extension. Also you'll have to change the directories. If you would (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Feature suggestion
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These are all great ideas. I was thinking the exact same thing about the arrow keys! (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Feature suggestion
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(...) *brilliant*. Bravo. Now, can we persuade you to collect a few suggestions from other people too(like my current hot button, control of line thicknesses when rendering output bitmaps...) Grin. ++Lar (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Feature suggestion
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(...) BTW, you can change the color associated with a color button. I don't rememer how I did it, but it was pretty intuitive. Double-click, or right-click, I think. Later, Gino A... (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: are mlcad files compatible with pov ray or ray tracing?
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Chuck Sommerville <chucks@he.net> wrote in message news:G6AxAz.1MI@lugnet.com... (...) Yep.. Read this for starters too - (URL) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Feature suggestion
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(...) I actually created a web page with my suggestions (this being one of them) and submitted it for Michael's perusal: (URL) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: are mlcad files compatible with pov ray or ray tracing?
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(...) You are looking for a DOS utility called L3P. It converts .dat files to .pov files. -Chuck (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | are mlcad files compatible with pov ray or ray tracing?
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Hello, I was wondering can i ray trace with mlcad files ? If so how and if not is there an alternitive? (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Feature suggestion
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"Gino A. Melone" <gmelone@futurenext.com> wrote in message news:G68uv0.F1w@lugnet.com... (...) I'd (...) work (...) keys (...) select (...) would (...) I second this - I'm forever switching to the up-down view and trying to use the arrow keys to (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Feature suggestion
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Michael, #insert STDPRAISE.h I've been using MLCad again. And I noticed something that vexes me. I'd like to be able to use the keyboard shortcuts more. What I think would work for me is to be able to setup MLCad to have the up-down/left-right arrow (...) (24 years ago, 27-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Can't find a peice
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(...) You betcha! Just make sure you post a pic of whatever you wind up rendering! Dave! (24 years ago, 26-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Can't find a peice
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(...) Found it. Thanks for your help. Chris (24 years ago, 26-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Can't find a peice
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(...) I don't know MLCad, but in LDraw parlance it's under the "bracket" category. Does that help? Dave! (24 years ago, 26-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Can't find a peice
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(...) Thanks. For MLcad, do you know where this part is listed? (24 years ago, 26-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Can't find a peice
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(...) Try part# 2436. (URL) Dave! (24 years ago, 26-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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| | Can't find a peice
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I'm a newbie to Lcad and MLcad. I just downloaded the files today. I am trying to find the piece that consists of a 1x2 plate with a 1x4 thin plate attached at a 90 degree angle. To see what I' talking about, follow the link below: (URL) piece I'm (...) (24 years ago, 26-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Line Thickness
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(...) Well, after rendering at 300% and then scaling the images down again, I achieved an effect like that of anti aliasing. If I hadn't scaled down the image, the effect would simply be "thicker lines", as you say. It all depends on the useage of (...) (24 years ago, 26-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Line Thickness
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(...) Oh, I agree totally. (except do you mean anti aliasing? I'd call it "thicker lines") The images are very nice indeed. My issue is that I can't get a clean rendering of every step in every submodel of an MPD without jumping through some severe (...) (24 years ago, 26-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Line Thickness
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(...) I've used this feature in LDLITE, and I'd say it's a great way to achieve an anti aliasing effect on the renderings. You simply render at 300%, say, with thick lines enabled. Then you scale down the resulting image. Here are a couple of (...) (24 years ago, 25-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Free-Form Camera Positioning with MLCAD, L3P, and POV-RAY
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(...) No, L3P uses the LDraw coordinate system. This was an important design goal. L2P (LGEO) uses its own coordinate system. Otherwise a good description. You might also want to tell about the QUAL and STUDS variables in the POV file, used for (...) (24 years ago, 24-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Newbie help request.... rotation
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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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| | RE: Newbie help request.... rotation
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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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| | Re: Newbie help request.... rotation
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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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| | Re: Newbie help request.... rotation
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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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| | Re: LDraw Installation
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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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| | Line Thickness
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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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| | Newbie help request.... rotation
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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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| | Merry Christmas
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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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| | Re: Adding new pieces in MLCad
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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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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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| | Re: Part rotation point
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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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| | Re: Mirroring models
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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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| | Re: Custom Built LEGO Sets in 2002
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(...) Possibly! I got a copy of the latest LDLite and it does a much better job of rendering the edge lines. However it doesn't support .mpd files as well, when you point it at an MPD it only renders the first subpart it finds, or so it seems. Also (...) (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCAD Suggestions
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----- Original Message ----- From: "John VanZwieten" <john_vanzwieten@email.msn.com> <snip> (...) <snip> John, You can export the submodels into individual DAT files. MLCad will allow you to browse to a directory that you will put them in, and (I'm (...) (24 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Sugestions and Requests.
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Ah, yes, that could be. When I build virtual models, I don't put in steps. That could be the difference right there. Sorry. :-) -Andy Lynch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Will Hess" <willhess@simflex.com> (...) all (...) (24 years ago, 10-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Sugestions and Requests.
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(...) Oh, I see Gary. Sorry, I don't usually put steps in models that I build, because they are usually only for my own use. That's why I didn't see the problem that you were having when I looked at my own model. Sorry about the confusion. -Andy (...) (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Sugestions and Requests.
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(...) OH OK that works,when I choose 'save partslist' should it save it in the form or that report? An option for the color might be nice. I'm sorry if I bothered with all this,but I guess I missed that check box! THank You! Gary (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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