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(...) Tim, Color 24 in MLCAD was purposely made to be different that Dark Gray (8), the same way Color 16 is to be different from Light Gray (7). The problem is that it tends to make it them darker than both colors [7 & 8], leaving the Edge Color at (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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In addition to this I personally feel that the grey edge colour for black elements is too dark, it works for one black element but when you have a black model the joins become nearly invisible. Is it posible to create user defined custom colours (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Good Evening. I am writing to give my own suggestion about colors in MLCAD, based on pre-existing colors in LDraw. While some of the colors [when converting LDraw usage to MLCAD usage] turned out pretty well, others appeared so shockingly different, (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Thank you both very much, I must be cracking up as I was sure I had checked 'wedge', sorry to bother you. Psi (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Simon Bennett" <simon.bennett@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:GBxKIw.4zu@lugnet.com... (...) is (...) Try 6565 and 6564 - Wedge 3 x 2 left and right. Dan (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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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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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... (...) (24 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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(...) 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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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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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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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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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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I forgot to post this DAT file here... It's not an official LEGO part. I needed to make small Lap Tops (by using 2 - 2x2 tiles) but the screens didn't look very well. So I made screens that looked like some software program. It's supposed to look (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Just a simple query I hope. I have just downloaded MLCad and found it very simple to use compared to LEDit/LDraw (although for the first time ever I can see what people mean when they praise a dos type program over a windows one, it does feel more (...) (24 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Delay I guess being caused by Michael having a baby boy at Christmas (see Merry Christmas posting on 23rd Dec, only just read it), I've got a 17 month old daughter so I know how much of a handful they can be for the first few months/years! Michael, (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Current version is 1.99R1 AFAIK so I guess you're on the latest release - MLCad development seems to have been a little quiet lately :( Dan (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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i wonder if mlcad will have export to 3ds or obj feature later on? currently i use leocad for that but i prefer to use same app for design as export. -- And they said 'Computers will never be in general use' (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi, sorry I'm not too often here and I wanna ask if there is a new version of ML-CAD (this brilant LEGO CAD soft) ? My last downloaded version comes from November/December 2000. Thanx. Rene (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I hope I'm not to late to add to this! Me at work direct link (URL) Lego home page (URL) Regards Andrew (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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I would like to use it also! Thanks, Iemke-P. Zeijlemaker iemke@compuserve.com "Martin Eriksson" <maeron@telia.com> schreef in bericht news:G9BnM9.Bn9@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 25-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Orion" <pobursky@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:G9BDy1.JyB@lugnet.com... (...) Can't find it there, looked all around the place. Do you have the program? If so can you mail it to: martine@xdin.com /Martin (24 years ago, 25-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Yes DAT2DXF. There's a link at www.ldraw.org in the downloads section -Orion (aka BillTheFish) (24 years ago, 25-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Is there any program to convert .dat files to .dxf files so you can use them in 3D studio or Maya? /Martin Eriksson (24 years ago, 25-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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neato ! My coworkers will be jealuos once they're properly educated : ) "Bram Lambrecht" <bram@cwru.edu> wrote in message news:MABBIBJJFOJIOHD...wru.edu... (...) (24 years ago, 24-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) Ooo, nice! Thanks! Steve (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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My turn. See me and my electric chair at (URL) the fig's head is supposed to be gray! -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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Just to jump on the bandwagon... Here is my work space at home, but virtually (via MLCad and POV-RAY) and the model (with me in it). I had done this a while back... (URL) Lynch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Heather Patey" <hpatey@nfld.com> (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) have to take a little Spyrius set to work, just to illustrate. Cheers, Heather -- Heather Patey St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada Pirate Wench / Brick Detective (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) Here I am. The head is a xacto-customization of one from a Divers set, which inspired the whole thing. (URL) Heather -- Heather Patey St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada Pirate Wench / Brick Detective (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) You asked for it: (URL) Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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Any links ? I seem to have missed it : ( "Heather Patey" <hpatey@nfld.com> wrote in message news:G96Lsp.Gq8@lugnet.com... (...) coffee (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) That was me. Glad you liked it, thanks! I wish I had a minifig-scale coffee mug... (...) grief, I'd go blind. Maybe one of the more artistic among us could make a big replica of the Spyrius tile to use as wallpaper, that'd be neat. Life (...) (24 years ago, 22-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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A little while ago a woman made a small LEGO model of herself at work. She had her own little cubicle, coffee mug, etc... I thought that that was a great and funny idea... Here's my addition: Royce at Work (URL) am really happy with Lap Top (...) (24 years ago, 22-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) I have a small network of Sun Microstations that have a very large amount of raw processing capability. I have already tested POV on it - I convinced my supervisor to let me install it to simulate a overload on the servers. They pulled through (...) (24 years ago, 17-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hey Michael, Did you notice that Jake is someone from TLC? You must be thrilled now! Iemke-P. (24 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I just found something about this - if the printer driver run's out of memory - MLCad doesn't get notified or at least ignores the errors - resulting in either blank pages (totaly blank) or also getting pages with just some rubish on it ... I will (...) (24 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Yep. The print preview shows it just fine. Everything is perfect right up until the actual print out process when the model won't print for anything. The header/footer and parts list have no problem at all, but the parts/models will not print (...) (24 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I have much better luck having MLCad generate images instead of trying to print directly, then embedding the images (converted from BMP to something else, such as PNG) in some other document. A lot more work, but more precise control, and you (...) (24 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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All, Has anyone had any trouble getting the model images to print out in MLCAD? I can print the parts list and header/footer just fine, but where the image would go, it is just printing out blank sheets. Please help! Jake (24 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I've updated, with around 20 new ideas since my last post on this subject. View them at: (URL) in this update are: -animals -castle/town spinning wheel -house items -TALL tree -more... Coming soon: -space/ remote control camera -side walks -Bottled (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.space)
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found the "scan parts" menu item in mlcad. That found my installed parts library and i found all the beams i was looking for. (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I just downloaded and installed ldraw, ledit, and mlcad per the web site instructions. I also installed the updated parts package. What i can't find are any of the 1xN technic beams. I found 1 part (a 1 x 14 beam), but where are all the others. In (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hello Travis, hello James, (...) You can find this part on my webpage (URL) can find a reference to there from Partsref Parts Tracker too... Greetings, Carsten Schmitz (24 years ago, 20-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.db.inv)
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"Michael Lachmann" <michael.lachmann@lm...tware.com> wrote in message news:G7EB99.A7y@lugnet.com... (...) Thanks, Michael! :-) -- Tim Courtney - tim@zacktron.com (URL) - Centralized LDraw Resources (URL) - Zacktron Alliance (24 years ago, 20-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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DONE! Available with the next release ... 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 Tim Courtney <tim@zacktron.com> schrieb (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) obscure, but accurate reference. In short, I use Color 366 to get the gold that LEGO fans are familiar with. Copying some lines from POV-Ray's representation of Color 383 (Silver), a metallic/chromy version can be acheived. To get a good gold (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.db.inv)
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"Tim Courtney" <tim@zacktron.com> wrote in message news:G7Cyoy.F07@lugnet.com... (...) around. I agree it's probably a good idea, I've been caught out by it too many times. Dan (24 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Daniel Crichton" <danielc@helio.co.uk> wrote in message news:G7Coyo.LHr@lugnet.com... (...) Yeah, but I'm asking if he could set that default value to edit mode, and someone can go into the settings and uncheck it, versus the other way around. -- (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Tim Courtney" <tim@zacktron.com> wrote in message news:G7BwCD.49I@lugnet.com... (...) news:G7Bv9x.M2@lugnet.com... (...) mode?? You can also change this yourself from the Settings menu. Dan (24 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Thomas Keenan" <thomas@mets.com> wrote in message news:G7Bv9x.M2@lugnet.com... (...) Hey, it happened to me when I started using MLCad, and I venture to say it happened to many others. Mike - any chance you could change the default setting to start (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I've updated my page, and will be updating it multiple times today, I've decided to stick with the JPEG's for now, the GIF's turned out to be larger & slower loading. If a model has more then 10 steps it will get more then one page, with 10 steps (...) (24 years ago, 17-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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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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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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(...) 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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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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"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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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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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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(...) 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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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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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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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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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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