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Hi all, Another post here to seperate the threads. I am making instructions for a model that uses submodels (MPD). But to generate the same proportion renders for all these submodels as individual instructions is hard. Is there a way in MLCad to (...) (22 years ago, 3-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.inst)
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| | Buffer Exchange, Ghost parts and Rotation Steps
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Hi all, Does anyone have example DAT and/or MPD files that are using the Buffer Exchange, Ghost parts and Rotation Steps in MLCad? I do not understand these at all, but I know they can be a powerfull tool in making instructions. No offense Michael, (...) (22 years ago, 3-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: Feature Request - Unofficial Parts category
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"Bernd Broich" <bernd.broich@online.de> wrote in message news:H4r4My.809@lugnet.com... (...) I'd forgotten about that. Oh well. In that case I could probably knock together a VB script that could look for the comment Unofficial part and add (...) (22 years ago, 30-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Feature Request - Unofficial Parts category
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(...) Most, but not all, of the unofficial parts have "Unofficial Part" or something like that as a comment. -Orion (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Feature Request - Unofficial Parts category
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(...) Unfortunately is this no option because MLCad looks for parts in the parts.lst. And there are only the first lines of each dat-file. CU Bernd (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Feature Request - Unofficial Parts category
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"Orion Pobursky" <bilthefish@IHATESPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message news:H4qAnF.n1n@lugnet.com... (...) category (...) has (...) and (...) Don't the unofficial parts already have a comment line saying Unofficial Part? So a simple way would be for (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Feature Request - Unofficial Parts category
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(...) Actually, you would have to put all the /P items into the main directory with the 48 segment files in a /48 subdirectory. So basically you would have a directory with all the parts and primitives with a /S subdirectory for subparts and a /48 (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Feature Request - Unofficial Parts category
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(...) You could do this but it requires 2 things that are rather undesirable: -You have to go through all the unofficial part to make sure that all of them had the word "Unofficial". Since the unofficial library currently has almost 1000 parts, this (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Feature Request - Unofficial Parts category
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You can do this. Just add the word "Unofficial" somewhere in the description of the part. Then, rerun mklist.exe. Afterward, edit the file MLCad.grp in the MLCad directory. To add a new category called "Unofficial", you would add the following lines (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Feature Request - Unofficial Parts category
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(...) I agree that a good feature to add in the next version of MLCad would be a user specified unofficial parts directory. Yes, this directory would require a /S and /P subdirectories. But if you dump the entire contents of the ldrawunf.zip the /S (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Feature Request - Unofficial Parts category
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(...) This IS a good and clever workaround but I think the idea of an UNOFFICIAL directory DOES have merit... the issue is that to do it right would you need an /s and /p directories too? (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Feature Request - Unofficial Parts category
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(...) Ouch! Now that I've recovered from smacking myself in the head, I can only say, that's a simple, elegant solution. Then I can use folders for MOCs. Jeez, I hate when I miss something so obvious! James (22 years ago, 28-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Feature Request - Unofficial Parts category
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(...) One way I use is to dump all the parts into the LDRAW\MODELS directory. They can't be in a subdirectory of the MODELS folder. This works fine if you don't make extensive use of the MODELS directory. If you do use this directory for storing you (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Feature Request - Unofficial Parts category
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Would it be possible to add a category for Unofficial parts to the MLCad tree? That way unofficial parts could be dumped into a separate directory (sorry, "folder") and yet still show up in the list. Or is it possible already? Thanks, James Wilson (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Incomplete 'Complete' parts list
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"Tony Alexander" <tw0nst3r@startrek.net> skrev i meddelandet news:H3wHo7.284@lugnet.com... (...) Glad to hear that! Don't forget to check in on the Home Page sometimes, there may be a newer version available, and sometimes I even update the (...) (22 years ago, 13-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Incomplete 'Complete' parts list
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(...) First, a note of thanx to all who've replied and offered help. I followed the instructions given at LDraw.org, first installing ldraw027.exe, then installing complete.exe, then running makelist. I've not tried to Scan Parts, so I will try (...) (22 years ago, 13-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Incomplete 'Complete' parts list
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(...) Yes but MLCad won't run unless LDraw is installed, therefore I assumed that he had downloaded Ldraw but not the updates (which is a common mistake) or had downloaded complete.zip but had not used Scan Parts or MakeList. -Orion (22 years ago, 13-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Incomplete 'Complete' parts list
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(...) Just to reinforce what Anders posted, the "complete" file is actually the "complete parts update", not the "complete parts library". You have to install LDraw (ldraw027.exe) first, then install complete.exe. Get the original ldraw package (...) (22 years ago, 13-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Incomplete 'Complete' parts list
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"Orion Pobursky" <bilthefish@IHATESPAMyahoo.com> skrev i meddelandet news:H3v7v0.9HK@lugnet.com... (...) LDRAW release. You first need to download, and install, the original LDRAW package, then install 'Complete'. I got bitten by this when I cleaned (...) (22 years ago, 12-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Incomplete 'Complete' parts list
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If you don't find what you are looking for using my previous post, look here for the part you need: (URL) search LUGNet -Orion (22 years ago, 12-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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