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Re: MLCAD for Linux :D
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Fri, 25 Apr 2003 17:16:07 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Jan-Albert van Ree writes:
After some looking I found nothing and therefore decided to try and get
MLCAD to work with Wine, the Windows libraries for Linux (and various other
OS'es, for the purists)

Result : It worked, no hassle!

wow, cool!  I just did the same, absolutely no problems, with generic wine from
a redhat 7.2 install.

I downloaded the latest version of Wine, of 20030408, did a regular install
and without altering any configuration I was able to open op most of my
LDRAW files, like my BR211 diesel engine. Still need to finetune some
things to improve speed and font quality a bit more, but it's very useable.
And best of all, it's hardly slower (some things even feel faster!)

nice!

So for all of those running an alternative OS, there's something to cheer
about!

you mean something ELSE to cheer about :)  You can also look at leocad, which I
believe had a native linux version (though I did find it a bit slow).

Dan



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  Re: MLCAD for Linux :D
 
(...) I didn't really like the LEOCAD interface much. Also MLCAD seems much more advanced, with stuff such as hose and minifig generator. As for the cheering, at that time I was working on a MOC, ran out of bricks and put myself to the Wine/MLCAD (...) (22 years ago, 27-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)

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  MLCAD for Linux :D
 
Just a little note... Having switched to Linux and pretty much all the basics working I started looking for alternatives to MLCAD and various other Windows programs... After some looking I found nothing and therefore decided to try and get MLCAD to (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad) ! 

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