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I've been using MLCad and having a lot of fun with it. It's a great program. I do have a number of suggestions that could (IMHO!) make it even better. - Part selection: Put a text entry field between the available parts and the preview area that (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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On Sat, 19 Feb 2000 08:13:07 GMT, Steve Demlow <demlow@visi.com> wrote: My suggestion, I want to be able to take a submodel and change the center of rotation so I can build a space ship door and be able to rotate it along the hing joint. ^_^ (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I agree with this - it's one of the fundamental user interface design guidelines, and something that has tripped me up when using MLCad. (...) Ugh, you said to remove the modes and then put them back in! (with an alternate means of (...) (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) And how. Click to zoom, but only sometimes? Yeesh. AR is a great program in general and kudos to Adobe for making it available free, but that needs to be fixed. (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Please find below my comments .... (...) This should not be a problem, will try to make it ... (...) This is generally possible, but keep in mind that this might be a slower thing. (...) I will try something to make it better, and which works into (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Or use HTML help in Windows whcih im sure that the MFC suppourts if not the SDK? (...) DAT->PostScript (...) GhostScript? - I think theres a windows verison. (...) Java 2 has Java3d - Or you could use VRML + Java via the External Authorign (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Or use HTML help in Windows whcih im sure that the MFC suppourts if not the SDK? (...) DAT->PostScript (...) GhostScript? - I think theres a windows verison. (...) Java 2 has Java3d - Or you could use VRML + Java via the External Authorign (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Gestural activation is way different than true modal operation - there is no additional interface component (the "specification of operation" is part of the operation itself) and there is no state change either before or after the operation. (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) A DAT->PostScript converter would be awesome, either as a stand-alone utility, or as a plug-in to MLCad. But I don't think it needs to be in the core of MLCad (in other words, maybe someone else can work on this besides Michael? Not that I'm (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) alternate (...) ... (...) I agree it's better than the current system and not really modal operation but I still find it unintuitive. There is no obvious reason why vertical movement should be zoom and horizontal movement should be pan. Worse, (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) You must be doing some interesting optimizations for the drawing? It doesn't seem any harder to render the last N parts than the first N? (...) I also noticed that when you delete a part, MLCad jumps back to the start of the list. It would be (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Michael Lachmann" wrote... (...) If it fails, you could try launching the user's preferred browser by calling: ShellExecute(0, "open", "MLCAD.htm", NULL, NULL, 0); However, you will miss the Index and Contents buttons (which I cannot get to work (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Ok, thank you, I will implement this into the program. But wy does index and contents not work for you, or in which case? Michael (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) BFC is for Back Face Culling. There's been some attempt to define an extension to LDraw, allowing the parts library to include information needed for BFC. There's a semi-formed proposal at (URL). Looking at the revision date, it's exhibiting a (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Michael Lachmann wrote... (...) Sorry, they do seem to work on NT too. I assumed Index was something à la Index in DevStudio/Help/Search... And I cannot tell any difference whether I click on "Contents" or "Index". /Lars (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) DAT->PostScript (...) MLCad (...) that (...) I would like to try to write a DAT->postcript converter if no one else is doing it. But give me some time. I just got a phostcript manual and it seems fairly easy to write a phostcript file. I just (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Guido Heunen writes: < SNIP > (...) Cool, how about writing a plug-in for MLCad? If you are interested than just drop a note here, and I pass on the information required for a dat->xxx converter. It's still not finished but we (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) z- (...) Hi Michael I am very interested in doing this, however i am not a genius in programming, its a hobby (together with lego of course) not a profession. It could take a while before things are going. But if you have the patience... I (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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