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In a word - awesome! Took me a couple tries to get it going, but oh man that is SOOO much easier than the clunky way I was doing it... Thanks for pointing me in a better direction! Mark (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Brice Williams (...) it's (...) What I do is go into Settings>General>Change, click the Document tab and change the angles the model will be displayed at, click OK. If you are in the view mode, click the button that puts you in edit mode, and then (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Mark Chittenden" <mdublade@aol.com> wrote in message news:GGrw44.HEI@lugnet.com... (...) POVRAY (...) I'm a point-and-click person myself - download L3PAO and L3P, install POV-RAY, and voila! great POV renderings at the click of a few buttons. Get (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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The 'manual' method I follow to create pictures of my MLCad models are: 1. After saving the completed model, quit MLCad. 2. Restart MLCad. The completed model now shows up in the Models list. 3. Select the model as if using it like a part. 4. Rotate (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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You can always hit the print screen key on your keyboard, then open a graffics program(like MS Paint), paste in the screenshot, crop out the extra stuff, and then save the file as a .jpg. There may be a way to do this with MLCAD, but I forget. But (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I just created a model of mine in mlcad. And i want to take pics of it in the program, such as save pictures as in the file menu. The only view it's letting me save as is the 3D view. Is there any way i can save pics as a different view? Thanks a (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hy, I've just released MLCad V2.00R4 with the following bug-fixes: - Error MLCad.DLL not found (which was a problem with the dll itself) - Problem when starting MLCad from the command line - Problem with focus of selection in model part list on my (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi Ronan, I had meant to reply to Jake's message with a few tips for you to help you along with beginning to use MLCAD, but I forgot until now. With regard to positioning, one thing that helps me tremendously is using the "spacing grid" buttons (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.ie, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Thanks guys I'll persevere. RW Jake McKee <sink@countersinkdg.com> wrote in message news:GG1x38.4Jo@lugnet.com... (...) get (...) somewhat (...) MLCad (...) steep (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.ie, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Ronan, I recently started using MLCad myself. I too found it a little tough to get started. I actually make sure that I sit down with a completely or somewhat built model. This helps me to visual what I am making on the screen. I would also (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.ie, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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How do you make a Program like MLCad? I want to make one. (23 years ago, 5-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Thanks for making us aware. I've updated the link. -Suz (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd, The link to the MLCad Home Page on the MLCad NewsGroup Page is no longer correct... (although it IS still pointing people to the new page, for now ) The new link is (URL) Lynch (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.admin.general)
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Yes, I have experienced this problem before. The easiest way that I have found to adjust the size of the MLCad window when it gets like this is to make sure that the window is NOT maximized, then click and drag the window (using the top title bar) (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Is anyone else experienceing this problem. I can not resize MLCAD. When I open it it opens up to full screen, when I rize to resize I can only minimize and maximun. The button (top right hand) is aviable for re-sizing but when I click on it the (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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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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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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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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(...) 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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(...) 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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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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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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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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(...) 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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(...) Menu "Extras/Reports/Pieces..." .... Greetings, Michael (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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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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(...) 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 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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that dot is a Rotation point id suggest you to set it to hidden after setting it back to part orgain. -- And they said 'Computers will never be in general use' "Jake McKee" <sink@countersinkdg.com> wrote in message news:GELGz1.5nL@lugnet.com... (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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OK, well after months of using MLCAD to look at other people's creations, I have finally been bitten by the bug to make CAD models of my own stuff. However, as I get into MLCAD I have come up with a few things that I need some info on, as the Help (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I'd also recommend people go here: (URL) download Patrick's awesome Illustrated Parts Catalogue. Makes it much easier to find those pesky parts no one can name! :] KDJ ___...___ LUGNETer #203, Windsor, Ontario, Canada (23 years ago, 7-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) This actually helps out a lot. Now I'll have an idea as to what I'm looking for. I'm sure this prevents a lot of "musical programs". Thank you. James J. P.S.: If only they'd make a similar fusion with 3D-rendering... "LDraw-Ray"... yeah, (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, James Jackson writes: <snip> (...) First, make sure you are using MLCAD version 1.99r1. It is far superior to all previous versions.... Now, there are two ways to fix this problem: 1) Run Mklist.exe (found in your LDRAW (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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there should be in menu somewhere that updates entire parts list. -- And they said 'Computers will never be in general use' "James J." <jejackso@memphis.edu> wrote in message news:GEJ1yq.6G0@lugnet.com... (...) few (...) know (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) As I understand it, 1 x 1 brick is "3005.dat", but due to a bad alphanumeric order, ALL of the lettered and numbered 1 x 1 bricks (3005-*.dat) come before "3005.dat". As for the 1 x 2 brick, the normal (unpainted) one is "3004.dat". The one (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Hit "Regenerate List"? Elaborate. Although I'm sure that it's a command I missed, but please tell me more. (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I want to thank you and Simon for helping me. I've finished my first DAT and you can check it out if you'd like (be careful, it's space!): (URL) again! -- dataAndrew (URL) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) World Origin or Custom, which means that the piece is rotating around either (0,0,0) or some other point, probably outside the piece you're rotating. Have you selected just one piece or more than one? If more than one, the rotation point will (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) You are rotating it around a centre point which is represented by a cross that you will find somewhere on the model, you can grab this and drag it to the point around which you would like to rotate. Once you have performed the rotation right (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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OK, thanks all! Jaco (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Everytime I need to rotate a piece, it moves off the model. Then when I try to place it back where it belongs, it's off center (it's not completely on both of the studs). It seems hard to explain without a picture so let me know if you need one. -- (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I know the version you mean. One important note about that: It was <NOT> LDAO that was the problem! Steve Bliss would never have let something like that through! The problem was the self-extracting installation program he packaged it in. He (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Yes, there is that. I am using an older version. I thought Steve had put back a stable (older) version on the download site but I may be wrong. I do have the install image for that older version around somewhere if folks needed it. It hasn't (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Is LDAO stable? The last time I installed it, I had to reinstall my machine... :-( (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) If regenerating doesn't do it for you, because you just can't remember that, for example, garage door slats are filed under Roller and not garage and not door and not panel and not slat.... (yes, I was trying to find these today, no comment on (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) That seems to have done it! Thanks! Jake --- Jake McKee AFOL LUGNET Member #211 (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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did you hit regenerate list? mine was same way heh -- And they said 'Computers will never be in general use' "Jake McKee" <sink@countersinkdg.com> wrote in message news:GEHnoC.Ftz@lugnet.com... (...) brick, (...) I (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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All, I am starting to actually _create_ MLCAD based models and I am having trouble locating some of the basic parts. 1x1 brick, 1x2 non-printed brick, 45 Slope 2x2 non-printed and 1x2 tile with one center stud are just a few I am having trouble (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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