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Re: MLCAD for Linux :D
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Date: 
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 (...) (24 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 (...) (24 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad) ! 

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