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Simon, It's called a "Wedge 3 x 2 Left" or a "Wedge 3 x 2 Right". In MLCad, look under "Other Parts" and "W". -Andy Lynch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Bennett" <simon.bennett@ntlworld.com> To: <lugnet.cad.mlcad@lugnet.com> Sent: (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hello I have just got myself set up with MLCAD and I am drawing up all the MOCs that I have been unable to break down due to not wishing to forget how to build them but I have run into a problem which I hope this is the right place to come for an (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Printing parts-list
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Thank you for the bug report - I will check that today and fix it for V2.00 Michael "Maico Arts" <maico@m-arts.demon.nl> wrote in message news:GB4p7x.2Ep@lugnet.com... (...) (23 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hello (Michael?) I think I have found a bug in mlcad when printing the partslist. I am making inventory lists ofall my technic sets. I have build all sets I have, put them back in the boxes and added the extra parts. Using ML Cad I am making (...) (24 years ago, 1-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Printing problems in MLCAD
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(...) I had essentially the same problem and found the following fix; Select 'Printer Setup' in MLCAD Select 'Properties' Check 'Scale to Fit' Check 'Scale to fit paper in printer' Then about three 'OKs' I don't know about others but this seems to (...) (24 years ago, 25-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Rotation trouble
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Hey, There should be some buttons with arrows going around axes. These control the rotation of an element around the x, y, and z axes. The degree of rotation is determined by the grid icon. You can also edit the amount of rotation by going to (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hey Dug, I have had some difficulty with that at times as well. One way I began to over come the problem was to open the rotation dialog bod and go to the bottom text window (you have to click the radio button to enable it). And enter "1 0 0 0 1 0 0 (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi all, I'm pretty much new to MLcad, although I'm not quite new to the world of CAD. I had some trouble after rotating a part at 45deg. After that I couldn't get the rotation angle back to 90.... Pieces were rotating all over the place, but not at (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Ryan Farrington" <ryanjf@ifriendly.com> wrote in message news:00bb01c0b234$6b...dly.com... (...) No, I didn't - thanks for letting me know. It's still a bit of a pain as my home and end keys are in the far top right of the keyboard and next to each (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) a (...) maybe (...) the (...) [snip] Home and End move pieces up and down in the Y axis. (I don't know if you knew that...) Regards, --Ryan (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Maybe I have something setup incorrectly here, or maybe I'm asking for something that is in the works for v2, but I find it a pain to use my "mouse" (it's a flat pad on a laptop PC and not very easy to use) to move parts in the 3 views so I tend to (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: question/problem regarding mlcad
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Go to Settings -> General and on the Rendering tab tick the "Draw to selected part only" box - I think Michael changed the default setting in the newer releases. Dan (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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i'm sure there's a simple solution to this, but i certainly haven't been able to figure it out.. so i figured i'd try and ask here. ;) anyhow, after a recent reformat and reinstall of my os, mlcad hasn't been working quite right.. i have since tried (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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It's not a matter of knowing the program. I was just trying to find a solution within the standard DAT/MPD format. :) Steve (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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:-))))) Steve knows my program better than I do, sure that's also possible and currently better since you can save it :-) Michael "Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:64aabtkr14io6p2...4ax.com... (...) group (...) groups (...) (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) You can also convert the file to an MPD, and make a subfile for each functional element of the model. Steve (24 years ago, 18-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) You can do that in a similar way already now: Select the parts by functionality (e.g. turning mechanism parts) and group them. Once you've grouped all parts, you can easely hide/unhide the groups as you like... Until now it's not possible to (...) (24 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi Micheal, I am wondering if it would be possible to use an unique identifier for each part belonging to a specific funcionality in the model. With this I mean: I would like to model for example the Technic Space Shuttle in MLCad and to see only (...) (24 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I thought something like that is happening, since I know many people not having problems. Therefor I write some statistical information during printing into the mlcad log file beginning with the next version. In the mean time people could (...) (24 years ago, 14-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Feature Requests
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snip (...) The help documentation is included in the program and thus will be on your had drive, but the path is wrong. I think I solved it by copying the relevant folders ('images' and 'english'(or 'german')) into a new folder called 'help', not (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Axles, pins, connectors and a lot of other technic parts do, and very frequently too! There's probably no simple and fail safe solution for the overlapping parts problem. For instace, imagine yourself doing it for a interaction of a cogwheel (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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how about support for wheeled mouses? if thats clicked down ie can scroll in any directions. -- And they said 'Computers will never be in general use' "Mike Walsh" <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:G9vuBq.9qL@lugnet.com... (...) were (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Michael Lachmann" <michael.lachmann@maxmobil.at> skrev i meddelandet news:G9ty1F.CpH@lugnet.com... (...) No need to test every line etc. - compute a bounding box (once) for each part, and the testing boils down to a few transformations and a region (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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"Ryan Farrington" <ryanjf@ifriendly.com> wrote in message news:002c01c0a7d4$02...dly.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) could (...) I personally would like scroll bars as well but others prefer the current solution. Apparently at one time (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) [snip] (...) and (...) Add (...) to (...) use (...) OTOH, scroll bars do take up space on the screen, and I already wish I could have more space... just my $.02 --Ryan (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"David M." <ElectroTX@webtv.net> wrote in message news:G9vCCD.5BE@lugnet.com... (...) too. (...) sink (...) (or (...) how (...) with (...) This would be so great, but would slow down the software so much that it might be unusable. At every single (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:G9uIE6.qq@lugnet.com... (...) explain (...) If it wasn't too much work to add a routine to do it I'd be happy to wait a bit longer for parts to be selected if I knew that everything (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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This is to Mike, but I want to see how many other people would like this, too. 1. Disallow the nesting of parts within other parts. When I drag a part (say, a 1x6 beam) onto another part, I don't want to be able to have it sink halfway into the part (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) So you are determining what to select based on something on the screen? I had expected you were doing it by coordinate filtering (but that may explain why you don't support selection in 3D) Personally I find it much more confusing not to (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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-- And they said 'Computers will never be in general use' <snap> (...) HMM that could be useful too. maybe use the color toolbar to select the color, then drag to pick all parts that has that color? also add "select all of that color" too. i got (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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| | Suggestion for fast access to settings
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Hi Michael I have a suggestion for fast access to grid settings: A double click on the icon should directly open the grid setting dialog. The same could be done for the general settings by clicking on mode icons (view mode, place mode, ...) Marc (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Selection based on part number as alternatives for the name can be usefull in some case (when you now the part number) The selection base on the name should accept regular expression. The same kind of regular expression you used for part list (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Michael Lachmann" <michael.lachmann@maxmobil.at> wrote in message news:G9ty1F.CpH@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) point (...) have (...) OK, I guess it could be more complicated than I thought - on my Mechanical Engineering degree course I took CAD (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Regarding the selection, MLCad uses a special buffer which keeps track of the parts visible on the screen. For all other parts I would have to go through the list of triangles, lines and quads until I find something in the rectangle. This can (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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"Michael Lachmann" <michael.lachmann@maxmobil.at> wrote in message news:G9tt3D.1Mx@lugnet.com... (...) parts (...) z-ordering. (...) go (...) rectangle. (...) I'm not sure I understand why this is complicated, surely you just need to check each part (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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(...) That would need a lot of time, since MLCad does not have any information about parts behind other parts in z order - which means it would have to go through the list of all parts and see if it's within the selection rectangle. Also I imagine (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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"Michael Lachmann" <michael.lachmann@maxmobil.at> wrote in message news:G9tpvF.Ir5@lugnet.com... (...) On the subject of part selection, how about an option to capture all parts in a selection box rather than just the first ones found in the (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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I got several requests on implementing automatic part selection based on colors and/or parts. If I implement one for selecting all equal parts ignoring the color, and a second which does the same, but takes care on the color would that be (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Cute... but you should have made it look like MLCad displaying *itself*. ++Lar (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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