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(...) LIGHT.DAT, >which is nice because it consists of nothing but six lines representing (...) IIRC, LIGHT.DAT is included in the standard LDraw download. At least, it's used in my tutorial[1], and I never had anyone complain :) Personally, I (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Expanding on what Jeremy wrote, the <0 0 0> point for pieces has been the subject of much discussion. Part of the reason things seem so odd in MLCAD is that MLCAD rotates on the center of the bounding box, not on the <0 0 0> point. Steve (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) It's actually pretty simple, once you get the hang of using a couple of tricks. First of all, you want to *visually* define 0,0,0 in your submodel. To this end, insert a 3070.DAT (1x1 tile) located at 0,0,0; its top surface is centered upon (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Alright, that's what I was talking about, rotating submodels. Like I've got a 3x4 hinge plat with some of those hexagonal pieces at the end to make a door (think Message Intercept Base) and I want to set the submodel's rotational axis along (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Be careful criticizing the parts authors when you don't know what you're discussing. They've put a helluva lot more thought into this than you have. For example, at which logical rotation point should 0,0,0 be put? A corner? The centerline for (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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This must be a problem directed to the partwriters, or what?. I have never made a part, but I think parts must have a 0,0,0 which should be at a logical rotationpoint. But if they place 0,0,0 more or less at random, you have no way of knowing where (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) If a line doesn't have enough orientation numbers, LDraw will usually choke when it tries to treat the filename as a number. One important thing about LDraw and linebreaks: once it's read enough data to complete a command, LDraw ignores (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I was wondering if there's a way to change the location of the rotational axis in MLCad. I know LDraw does it, or else I wouldn't be asking. Anyway, to give you an idea as to what I'm rambling about, I have a 2x8 plate with a 2x2 turntable at one (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Yes, I saw it too - was a rounding problem caused by a small speedup, and could already fix it so that its working again with 1.8. I will try to find another way of reporting load-errors .... I thougt to report errors just once per part and I think (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I see that missing triangle also, usually on 3298.dat. It renders fine in POVRay though. Lots of ldraw parts have issues like this when you convert them to .dxf and import them into 3d studio max also. Backface cull only does so much. Bummer. -- (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) IIRC, LDraw treats carriage returns just like any other whitespace, so line wrapping in LDraw has no effect. However, this would probably lead to problems with lines which truly contain errors (eg, not enough orientation numbers)... --Bram (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I don't think it should fix the linewrap problem automatically. But it could show the two lines and let the user decide. -- Djelle alias Mogens Sørensen ___...___ E-mail - Home: Djelle@Get2Net.dk ICQ: 38701158 Web: (URL) Poindexter (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) 3D-modelview-window. You know, (...) only on my computer? (...) I just upgraded to 1.7 and noticed this too (wasn't present in 1.6). Slightly distracting, but no big deal. It's interesting that these parts look fine in the 3D view. Will Visit (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Is there any way to program it to attempt to fix line wrapping errors? It seems to me that if it encounters and error, it could attempt to remove the carriage return and see if it continues to load properly. I would think that would be very helpful, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I have just finished looking through some posted dat-files. And of course they had errors. Mainly because of linewrap. MLcad announces politely that there is an error. But why not tell the linenumber too?!. That would make errorfinding a lot easier. (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi, I've written a very simple but useable hose bending spreadsheet. You enter the angle you want i.e 180 degrees gives a semi-circle arc. The length is consistent. I uploaded a model 6586-98 earlier today which shows its output. I'm trying to (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I (...) enable such a (...) selections. This means if (...) there are more (...) Cool! I guess I'll be looking for version 1.8 soon then :-) (...) I (...) I (...) Didn't think so. Another reason for me to grab the upcomming 1.8. (...) upper (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Michael Lachmann skrev i meddelandet ... (...) I see it on Win98 too! Ooops, that's version 1.6 I'm using - time to get a new one... <downloading> <testing a little> Not seen it yet in 1.7 but who knows? The best fix is to drop C++ and MFC and (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Suggestion: I add an option to the settings where you can enable such a feature. If enabled I zoom to the center of all selections. This means if there is only one part selected, I zoom to it's center. If there are more parts I zoom to the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) just zoom this view (...) valid. But you also (...) in this mode. (...) because it will be (...) I can't help but think that I speak for the majority when I say that when I click on the zoom button I want it to use the currently selected part (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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