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Copy of August 1, 2001 notice from rebelscum.com: Build Your Own LEGO Yoda Dustin: Corey Sanders reports that he has finally completed and posted for everyone to see his MLCAD instructions for building your own LEGO Yoda. This is identical to the (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Help with saving pictures
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Another methode would be to add a rotation step at the beginning of the model, rotate it into the angles you like, and now generate the pictures ... With that you do not need second and third party tools, nore do you have to change any settings. (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: problems with MLcad help file
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Yep, you are right - I didn't see that in time and forgot about it. I make this page available with the next update. Michael "Austin Greenwood" <sonyplaystationgame...tmail.com> wrote in message news:GH7EqJ.Cwr@lugnet.com... (...) when (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: LDraw setp help
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Tim, has any progress been made with the parts library license? It clearly would help if MLCad could be a stand-alone install without the confusion of downloading multiple programs. -gyug (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | problems with MLcad help file
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when the i open the help window in mlcad it will load the contents, but when i click on the index button, it gives me a "the page can not be displayed" error. i have version 2.00 release 4, not 1.99 (23 years ago, 28-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: LDraw setp help
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(...) I can not use DOS or any programming systems because I do not know any computer languages except for a VERY small fraction of BASIC. There has also been a strange message when I downloaded MLCad on to my computer. The message said that it (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LDraw setp help
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(...) I did not say try MLCad before LDraw. I said try it *instead*. Here's the skinny: LDraw and the DAT file format are the original developments by James Jessiman. They were made in 1996 or thereabouts, before he died. His original editing tool, (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw.org announces new MLCad subdomain and re-organization of resources
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(...) What do you mean that I should try MLCad first before LDraw? I am not even sure how to download LDraw, let alone MLCad. I am confused and I need help in downloading this program. I do not program computers very well. Jesse Long (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Help with saving pictures
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(...) That's interesting... My Win95 MS Paint program won't make jpegs, at least not in color...(IIRC) But my Win98 will... (But MLCad's not installed on the 98 'puter. --Electro-- (23 years ago, 22-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Help with saving pictures
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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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| | Re: Help with saving pictures
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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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| | Re: Help with saving pictures
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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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| | Re: Help with saving pictures
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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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| | Re: Help with saving pictures
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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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| | Help with saving pictures
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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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| | *** MLCad V2.00R4 ready for download ***
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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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| | Re: 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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| | Re: 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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| | Re: 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 do it ?
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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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| | Re: Link to MLCAD Homepage on MLCAD Group Page
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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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| | Link to MLCAD Homepage on MLCAD Group Page
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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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| | Re: Resizing in MLCAD Ver2 R3
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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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| | Resizing in MLCAD Ver2 R3
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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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| | New MOC: Y-Wing (IRL)
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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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