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How do I setup MLCAD to create new parts using the primitives and pre-scaled primitives? (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I don't understand your question. Are you asking how to include primitive in your parts or are you asking in general how to author parts in MLCad? -Orion (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Both! Here's what I've done so far. 1. Studied several parts dat files by stepping through the code using LDAO. I particularly concentrated on parts that had features similar to the ones I'd like to make. (My wife wants to model all the large (...) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Ok, you're good until here. The best way, in my opinion, to learn parts authoring is to look at other similar parts. (...) Don't do this, it's bad since the work is unnecessary and the primitve library is updated almost every time a new (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I've read Virtual Lego, LDraw.org tutorials and even used your BrickFestPDX Powerpoint Presentation in class. I've found them very helpful for creating parts line-upon-line. However, I am inherently a very lazy programmer. That's why I want to (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) That's really cool. You might have mentioned this eariler and I missed it but where do you teach? This particluar presentation has gone through several revisions (I just uploaded the Brickfest DC version a couple of days ago) but I'm always (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Hi, I'll echo Orion's question: where do you teach? What level/subject(s) do you teach? I'm interested how and why you've chosen to insert LDraw parts authoring into your curriculum.. Was it difficult to convince your superiors? I teach CAD at (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) While it doesn't specifically use MLCad, Paul Easter's utilities pages has some nice screen shots of the part development process. And I'm sure you could use some of the ideas in MLCad. (URL) one shows a bunch of windows in polling mode with (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Just wanted to say I agree with what Don wrote, and add my own 2 cents. I use Paul Easter's zerobase.dat and point.dat files a lot when beginning a new part. I like to start by measuring the part, and using notepad or LDAO to record the (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) A good reason could be that the resulting references to primitives would be to the wrong libary, but there must be another way to display the content of folders like /p, /p/48, and /s in MLCad's availible parts tree/parts preview, so you can (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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(...) Excellent references! Thanks for pointing me to Paul Easter's site. Thinking that I may have previously missed it, I went back to search for Prim-Gen at the LDraw site. I haven't found a reference to it. Too bad, it seems to do a lot of things (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Perhaps it might be useful (maybe in a new thread) for folks to enumerate what they think some of those features are? Might give some of the authors ideas... (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Ahh, this looks like the perfect time to again point out how nice it could be if mlcad supported plugins. Hint, hint... Have fun, Don (20 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) That's exactly what I was trying to accomplish ... a way to reference the primitives folder in MLCAD. I suspect that it is as simple as changing the MLCAD ini to include the P folder and perhaps another sub-parts folder. I tried stickng the (...) (20 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, FTX)
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(...) I am an adjunct instructor for Portland State University. I contract with a pre-college PSU affiliate called Saturday Academy www.saturdayacademy.pdx.edu> I teach programming and robotics courses to kids from 4th to 12th grade (that's 10 - 18 (...) (20 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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