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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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'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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| | Help! - MLCAD won't read 754.dat
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Help! I've tried to load several different models into MLCAD that use the "hose" subparts, and EVERY TIME, MLCAD responds with the message "The file 754.DAT was not found. Continue loading?" for EACH AND EVERY occurrence of 754.dat. I've tried (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I think that in some version of something, it should give you the ability to add your own customized pictures or stickers to put on either figures or just whatever you want. (i accidentaly put this on the main board, i don't think it matters (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Sv: Changing the Rotational Axis
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(...) Yeah! That's EXACTLY the problem I'm having! The transport door is one big dat file and since MLCad wants to rotate on the center of the box and doesn't actually give me a choice to move where it wants to roate elsewhere. Kya (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Yeah, that makes sense, I'll have to give it a try. (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Sv: Sv: Changing the Rotational Axis
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I'm not critizing the part authors. Not at all. Sorry if my english could be misunderstood. I'm grateful for the parts as anyone else. As I wrote: I was just guessing. I have never made a part ... yet :-) I was just pointing out, that from my point (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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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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