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Hi, I have some questions, abouth MLCAD V3.00 one's abouth the ' Flexible hose generator ' witch is implemented in MLCAD. 1) Where can i find a good Help file or manual about this utility? I need it to create a flexible hose for my train. 2) I (...) (21 years ago, 24-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Feature Request - User Defined Model Directory
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"Michael Lachmann" <michael.lachmann@lm...tware.com> wrote in message news:HJzKJw.woq@lugnet.com... (...) Fair enough. Thanks, Will Bricksburg Fire Department: (URL) Bricksburg Depot: (URL) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Feature Request - User Defined Model Directory
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Hi Will, something like that is foreseen in the next release, but this will take another while until its ready. Michael "Will Hess" <nc_hokie@ripline.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:HJuHzn.19Dv@lugnet.com... (...) change (...) ease (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Feature Request - User Defined Model Directory
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Michael, Could you look at the possibility of adding an option to let the user change the default Models directory to something other than the directory created by LDRAW? I like to keep my models in Windows' My Documents folder for ease of backup (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Create an installer for the Dutch MLCad DLL file
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"Matthew Miller" <mattdm@mattdm.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:slrnbja4tt.8bj.....bu.edu... (...) You might also wan't to try InnoSetup (URL) is also free. Regards, Michael (21 years ago, 12-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Create an installer for the Dutch MLCad DLL file
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(...) Try NSIS. (URL) (21 years ago, 9-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Create an installer for the Dutch MLCad DLL file
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Hi all, Does anyone know a good but easy to use program to create an installer? What I am looking for is an installer that first searches the users computer for the MLCad executable and then puts the DLL file in that directory. I need this since one (...) (21 years ago, 9-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: What's happened to the MLCAD homepage?
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"Jason J Railton" <j.j.railton@ntlworld.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:HIxxMn.t3A@lugnet.com... (...) Hi, just to make things clearer: My web-space is hostet by Inode, a huge private competitor of the Austrian Telekom. This company head a main (...) (21 years ago, 3-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: What's happened to the MLCAD homepage?
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(...) Its available at : (URL) just checked, and it's available. Regards, Ludo (21 years ago, 1-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | What's happened to the MLCAD homepage?
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What's happened to the MLCAD homepage? Jason Railton (21 years ago, 1-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Where can I find a scorpion file?
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Good evening. Does anyone know where I can acquire a scorpion (Animal Scorpion 30169)? I need one for my Fleebnork model that I'm working on, but I can't seem to find one in my files (I have all the parts updates and unofficial parts). Thank you for (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Some secrets of MLCad revealed ...
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(...) Yes, that makes sense. Hey, I did a little searching and found some references to "depth sprites" which seem to be supported in some of the latest graphics hardware. I haven't read it yet, but the pictures in this article seem to indicate that (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Some secrets of MLCad revealed ...
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Hi Don, "Don Heyse" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:HHrE7q.1vCq@lugnet.com... (...) The image buffers, just keep the light information in it, but not the color itself, the color is assigned during pasting the image onto the screen. I think I haven't (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Some secrets of MLCad revealed ...
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(...) I'm a bit behind on this thread, but thanks Michael. That explains a lot. I never thought of the image buffering approach for orthographic displays. It's a really neat idea! I do have a question though. How do you handle colors in the image (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Some secrets of MLCad revealed ...
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(...) Unfortunatly this is not true with files that have synthesized hoses and cables. They are quite large and take a *very long* time to load. (...) Kevin (21 years ago, 7-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Some secrets of MLCad revealed ...
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(...) I guess points are shared only on a part basis, not on a model basis. So, 400 distinct points for a part is already a fair number. Thus I think the sorting technique I discuss is not candidate for implementation unless the ldraw library goes (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Some secrets of MLCad revealed ...
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(...) <snip> Cool! Should perform a lot faster on searching I would expect 400 points? That seems low to me. Most of my models have more than that many elements! Even with shared vertices that seems low. (21 years ago, 7-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Ok, the practical figures relativize the problem for everyday use. Thanks Michael. For the sake of sharing here is how I imagine a sorted point list. The sorted list is also implemented as an array, so points can be accessed by index for (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Some secrets of MLCad revealed ...
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"Damien Guichard" <damien.guichard@wanadoo.fr> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:HHKMxB.225G@lugnet.com... <SNIP> (...) the (...) in a (...) So far I could find out, it doesn't effect loading much, I think it was something about 10% less then without this (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Some secrets of MLCad revealed ...
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(...) Thanks Michael. So, at loading time, each added point has to be compared to all points in the point list. Does this impact the loading time of big parts or big models in a significant manner? Or is it only minor slowdown? Regards, Damien (21 years ago, 5-Jul-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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