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Hello everybody, I finally got around to build my Y-Wing in real life. I had built it in MLCad from a rainbow warrior I made back in february or so, but the real thing is up now. I'll be finishing the instructions for you all pretty soon, but I'm (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jun-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Possible bug in V2.00R3?
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Ryan, that is what it should do ... I've verified that myself now, and it works as it should, if you haven't saved your project before scanning for models or parts, MLCad asks if you wan't to save your work. If you save it before it won't ask you. (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: How to customise parts tree in MLCad V2.00R2
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Jake McKee Another way to get that Plate/Tile with 1 stud in the Tile category is to have a search string for the Tile group like this: <Tile | ( <Plate & Stud> ) which will find all parts starting with Tile and also any part starting with Plate and (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Possible bug in V2.00R3?
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(...) I was not asked to save the file. I saved it myself before executing the command, just in case there might be any problems. --Ryan (23 years ago, 29-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Possible bug in V2.00R3?
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Naa, that's not a bug, the scanning function destroy and rebuild all internal file caches. This also resets the internal project buffer - that's wy you model is lost and you get the initial comment lines. Just what's important in this case is that (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Possible bug in V2.00R3?
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Michael, While I was working on building a model, I saved it and selected File>Scan Models. Then all the parts in the open model disappeared, but not the first four comments, nor the parts listings on the left of the screen. I would assume this is a (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Dichotomous Key
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One of the grouping features I'd thought of for BrickDraw3D is to group by stud count. (I haven't made up any palette trees yet, it's just one big palette so far.) This is part of a plan to implement a dichotomous key of Lego parts. A dichotomous (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Re: How to customise parts tree in MLCad V2.00R2
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Jake McKee wrote: [snip] (...) parts (...) Even (...) do (...) playing (...) Probably the only thing that would come close to what you want now would be the favorites category... And similar to what "Ducky Dave" suggested, though less risky, you can (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | **** BugFix Release of MLCad V2.00R3 ready for download ****
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Hy, I've just uploaded the third release of MLCad V2.00R3. Again some fault correction, of bugs reported till now, and some I found myself. For those of you who have downloaded any V2.00x release: Just download the update and extract the files into (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | MLCad in french - MLCad en français
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I have translated the menus and the dialog of the new version 2.00 of MLCad You can download the language dll here (URL) change the language, go in the menu Settings/General/Change and choose the French language The help have not been translated. In (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Bug report in V2.00R2
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hi michael, when I doubleklick on the mlcad.exe file or a *.dat file to start the program I get the following message: FATAL ERROR: MLCAD.dll was not found! although the MLCAD.dll is in the same folder as the MLDAC.exe-file. System: Pentium 75 32 Mb (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: How to customise parts tree in MLCad V2.00R2
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Jake McKee <sink@countersinkdg.com> wrote in message news:GFKM25.Esy@lugnet.com... (...) file (...) parts (...) Even (...) do (...) Thats where it gets tricky, and you have to resort to the measures I took to seperate unofficial/custom parts etc - (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | *** WARNING - BAD BUG IN MLCad V2.00xxx ***
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I'm sorry but there is a bad bug in MLCad Version 2.00 and 2.00 R2! Thanks to Ryan Farrington for reporting it! When you change the program settings it might / will happen that the program clears the screen and does not display anything. From time (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: How to customise parts tree in MLCad V2.00R2
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(...) Interesting! I will have to dig into that. It still only partially addresses my desire, as I see it, however. On a lower level than this, I would like to be able to classify individual parts on a per part basis to a category. A good example of (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: How to customise parts tree in MLCad V2.00R2
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Eek, linewrap made a right mess of that. Lets try again ;( Duckie Dave <Duck@clowes-till-cr...rve.co.uk> wrote in message news:GFKJH9.A0M@lugnet.com... (...) I'd like to add that the settings from this are stored in an MLCad.grp file in your ldraw (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: How to customise parts tree in MLCad V2.00R2
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Michael Lachmann <michael.lachmann@maxmobil.at> wrote in message news:GFIxCA.J1I@lugnet.com... (...) groups (...) I'd like to add that the settings from this are stored in a file MLCad.grp in your ldraw directory. The contents of my group file are (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Bug report in V.2.00R2
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Michael, If I change the rotation angle to anything with a decimal, the dat-line window and the views go blank. --Ryan (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: **** MLCAD V2.00 is out now ****
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(...) Hmm, as far as I can tell, the executable in the r2u zip file is the same as the one in the r2 zip file. Same size, date, time, and CRC. Also the About box claims its 2.00. Did the old executable somehow make into the r2u zip file? (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: **** MLCAD V2.00 is out now ****
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(...) Menu "Extras/Reports/Pieces..." .... Greetings, Michael (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: **** MLCAD V2.00 is out now ****
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one possible feature addation: show listing of all parts ( and how many of them ) used in a model. useful for ordering parts to make a real model! -- And they said 'Computers will never be in general use' "Michael Lachmann" (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: **** MLCAD V2.00 is out now ****
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(...) MLCad V2.00 checks for customer created language DLL's during startup. In the next days I provide more information about that on the mlcad pages. There will be a description what and how to do new language dlls for MLCad. Michael (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | How to customise parts tree in MLCad V2.00R2
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How to customise the parts tree: ===...=== From "Settings/Groups/Group configuration..." you can create your own groups or just add new ones. For every group you define rules which define what comes into this groups. Example: Add a group let say (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: **** MLCAD V2.00 is out now ****
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(...) I'll post an article showing how to do it ... Michael (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: **** MLCAD V2.00 is out now ****
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(...) Make sure you've downloaded the latest release V2.00R2 - this has a fix for that. V2.00 behaved like that descriped above. V2.00R2 works fine. Michael (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: **** MLCAD V2.00 is out now ****
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(...) To easily pick out the temp (hidden?) files, click the column headings in Explorer to resort the list. In newer versions of Windows, you should have the option to display file attributes, making it very easy to sort the hidden files out from (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: **** MLCAD V2.00 is out now ****
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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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| | Re: **** MLCAD V2.00 is out now ****
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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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| | Re: **** MLCAD V2.00 is out now ****
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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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| | Re: **** MLCAD V2.00 is out now ****
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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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| | Re: **** MLCAD V2.00 is out now ****
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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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| | Re: **** MLCAD V2.00 is out now ****
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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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| | Re: **** MLCad V2.00R2 released ****
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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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| | Re: **** MLCAD V2.00 is out now ****
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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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| | **** MLCad V2.00R2 released ****
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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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| | Re: **** MLCAD V2.00 is out now ****
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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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| | Re: **** MLCAD V2.00 is out now ****
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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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| | Re: **** MLCAD V2.00 is out now ****
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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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| | Re: **** MLCAD V2.00 is out now ****
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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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| | Re: **** MLCAD V2.00 is out now ****
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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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| | **** MLCAD V2.00 is out now ****
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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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