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(...) building models. For instance, if I wanted to create my own organization scheme for all the parts in the parts.lst. I actually use (and LOVE!) DATSort, but for sorting after the construction is complete. Make sense? Jake --- Jake McKee AFOL (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) One questions for you, in the ReleaseNotes.txt file, you mention that one of the updates is the ability for user defined language DLLs with usability checks. What is that? Jake --- Jake McKee AFOL LUGNET Member #211 (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) to (...) the (...) That's what Jeff Boen (Onyx) created DATSort for. (URL) can sort the pieces by position or color, in between steps or not, and you can even get it to sort mpd files. I use all the time and love it! --Ryan (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Clicking on it works, but on the command line from Windows 2000 you now have to very specific and include a path and the .exe extension. For example, this works: c:\mlcaddir\mlcad.exe myfile.dat But this gives the MLCAD.DLL error even if (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Michael, Looks great! I like the new changes! I haven't played with all the new stuff yet, but so far I love everything I see!! If I might offer a suggestion/request: I would *love* to see the ability to re-arrange the parts list so that the (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Drat. I can't believe that I was caught by this Windows "feature". You are quite right Kyle, I had windows set to hide hidden and system files. DLL's are considered system files, I guess. Whenever I get a new machine, I always set it to show me (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Boy, have I been eagerly awaiting this day! I thought it would be hard to improve on v1.99r1, but you've actually made a great program even better! Thank you, Michael. This versatile tool is not only valuable for LEGO applications, but also (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Andy, it sounds like you still have your Windoze Explorer set to hide extensions of certain file types (this is the default when Windoze installs). Go into the Options menu pick in Explorer, and tell it to show all filenames, and to show all (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hy, I got two error-messages since yesterday, and I've corrected them now ... Feel free to download the full release or the upgrade to V2.00R2 Regards, Michael (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Thanks Michael, I've been looking forward to this release for a good while. I did find a small bug: rendering parts with the line 0 BFC NOCERTIFY, either in the parts list or the main windows, crashes the program with a 'Runtime Error' and (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Nevermind. It was in the zip file. Not sure what happened, but I found the file. Windows didn't want to display it in the explorer, but the dos window would. Odd. -Andy Lynch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Lynch" <andy@andyandjackie.com> (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Woo-hoo! Thanks Michael! I just downloaded it and am off to play! Thanks again! Welcome back! Also, hope all is well with the wife and child... :-) But I guess if it wasn't then you would not have had time to get this out for us. -Andy Lynch ----- (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Make sure that dll is in the same directory where MLcad is located! Otherwice it will fail! Just in case start MLCad directly by clicking on it. I've tested that release before I zipped it ... so I do not expect something is missing! Michael "Andy (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Michael, Getting an fatal error: MLCAD.dll was not found! -Andy Lynch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Lachmann" <michael.lachmann@lm...tware.com> To: <lugnet.cad@lugnet.com>; <lugnet.cad.mlcad@lugnet.com> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hy MLCad fans, I'm happy to announce the release of MLCad V2.00! Download it for free from www.lm-software.com/mlcad/ and enjoy it's new features and it's new speed! Something not in the specs - Menu "Options/General - Gfx Tab" allows to speed it up (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Thanks again for all the help! Rob (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Thank, that explains a lot. -Orion (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I use this color number: 0x0000017F,it makes more of a chrome than silver when rendered, but it showes as silver in MLCad.Jay Cal used it first and I got it from one of his .dats that I requested from him. it was this car, You can see how the color (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Heh, yeah. Hopefully that step was self-evident. :) Another step I left out is deleting the submodel line from the main model. --Ryan (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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You can specify the color in MLCad (silver: #383), but it takes on the characteristics of silver only when it's rendered in POV-ray. --Ryan (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Does anybody know how to make the color silver available/work in MLCad? Or is that a POV-Ray thing? Rob McMurray spaceghost0@dellmail.com (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Daniel Crichton wrote: [snip] (...) [more snip] I think Ryan just forgot the step 'save each section to its own .DAT file'. At least, I hope he didn't mean to just concatenate everything together in a single file. That'd be (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) One more part-finding suggestion: if you're online, use Partsref or Peeron.com. (URL) gives you a list of all the Partsref categories, and a search function. (URL) gives you a search box that will hit all recorded parts and sets. Once you know (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Heh heh. This topic deserves a FAQ all to itself, I think. Anyway, if you see a four or five digit number embossed on the part, that should be the number. Usually the number is embossed on the inside of the part, often in the smallest nook or (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Bram Lambrecht" <bram@cwru.edu> wrote in message news:004301c0f280$9a...erv.net... (...) I new there was something that already did this, but I couldn't remember what it was. Guess I'll have to look at using LDAO again to make this easier. One (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) program (...) The Inline function in LDAO (by Steve Bliss) takes all the referenced subfiles in a DAT file and merges them into one file by transforming the parts. However, with the popularity of MPD, fewer people are inlining than they used (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) You are right. That is absolutely what it did. I went through my sub models one by one to: - Create a comment line telling me where each submodel started - Opened both the master file and the submodel file in Notepad - Copied the submodel (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Ryan Farrington" <ryanjf@ifriendly.com> wrote in message news:000b01c0f0e1$03...dly.com... (...) with (...) If you do this then you end up with referenced parts in the dat that don't exist as they were part of the mpd format, and you get all the (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Thanks for the help the minifigs guys. As for part numbers, here the story: A while back I was looking for a part to go in a technic model I was building. After looking up the number at Technica, I serched lugnet.cad.parts to find the particular (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Hi Orion, I just wrote about minifigs the other day in .castle: (URL) part numbers, check Partsref at (URL) Patrick's printable reference guide: (URL) this helps! Cheers, Heather -- Heather Patey Pirate Wench / Brick Detective LUGNET Member (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I have a couple of questions: 1.) What's the easiest way to put minifigs in your scene? Construction from scratch is a pain and I don't know how to modify the shorcuts in MLCad. 2.) What's the source for part numbers? All I can find is Technica for (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Wow, that was such a simple, but effective answer! I was making it way too difficult! Thanks! Jake --- Jake McKee AFOL LUGNET Member #211 (23 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) The easiest way I know of is editing the text of the .dat/.mpd file in Notepad. -For mpd to dat, simply delete the lines starting with FILE, and those with the model title, Name, etc. -For separating .mpd's, open up a few Notepads and then (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Great! I'm glad to hear the Wonderful World of MLCAD has converted another LEGO head! (...) As numerous others have pointed out, this is a rotation point. It has caused me problems occasionally as well. Either hide it (by clicking on the brick (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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wait a minute i might b mistaken. checking. hmm im wrong then. i dont know what its for since i never used it. sorry about my mistake. -- And they said 'Computers will never be in general use' "Daniel Crichton" <danielc@helio.co.uk> wrote in message (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Simple enough - right-click on a part in the list to add it to or remove it from Favorites. I don't think there's a way to change the order, except by hand, i.e. editing the text file 'MLC_Favorites.txt' in the program directory. Cheers, (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Rolf" <rolf.spamlovesyou.r...fords.net> wrote in message news:GELqB7.32s@lugnet.com... (...) Oh, that - I use it all the time. I don't have MLCad in front of me for reference so I couldn't remember what the button looked like - I thought it was a (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Jake McKee" <sink@countersinkdg.com> wrote in message news:GELGz1.5nL@lugnet.com... (...) That dot is a custom rotation point, not the centre of the part. You can reset this from the Settings menu. (...) Never used it! (...) laid out? Sort of - you (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) it makes legos temperory hidden. great for cutaway views or move the misplaced part inside the model. i usually abuse that for very large models. ( like old big model of spaceship. i misplaced wings one stud forward and i had to use hide to (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Jake McKee" <sink@countersinkdg.com> wrote in message news:GELGz1.5nL@lugnet.com... (...) That dot is a custom rotation point, not the centre of the part. You can reset this from the Settings menu. (...) Never used it! (...) laid out? Sort of - you (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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