 | | BFC Test Files (was: ===== MLCad V1.8 IS AVAILABLE =====)
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[X-FUT lugnet.cad.dev] (...) [snip rest of announcement] (...) everyone saw it: I've uploaded a set of files which have been cleaned and marked up, according to the existing BFC proposal. The file only includes some basic 1x and 2x bricks, a couple (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: ===== MLCad V1.8 IS AVAILABLE =====
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Well, thank you Michael. MLCad 1.8 seems to work well. Mouse rotation and translation are very useful. Direct insertion of lines triangles and quads will give me a big help in parts creation. I hope you could soon add precise rotation functions to (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | ===== MLCad V1.8 IS AVAILABLE =====
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I proudly present: MLCad V1.8 Beta 1 ===...=== New Features: - This version supports the unofficial BFC meta commands - provides basic functions for using LDraw primitives (lines, triangles, quads and optional line commands). - The model shown in (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | New ldraw.org Feature Article
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Greetings I just added a new Feature Article to ldraw.org. Here Jonathan Knudsen, author of The Unofficial Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS Robots, explains his techniques for designing building instructions using LDraw, MLCad, L3P, and POV-Ray. Check it (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Big Scenes
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, George Manousakis writes: <SNIP> (...) MLCad V1.8 will support unlimited selections (no limit on any number of parts). With that I stopped drawing all the rectangles and display the outer bounding box only. The crosses are still (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Big Scenes
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(...) Hello, Reading that you are working at MLCad v1.8 i'd like to ask if its possible to select multiple parts without the bounding box appearing around them, since it prevents the user to select parts that are inside this box. I know that you can (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Big Scenes
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Hi Michael, Michael Lachmann <michael.lachmann@maxmobil.at> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: FrpML4.8ny@lugnet.com... (...) four (...) and (...) Great! Ok, I will stand by.... (...) -- Ciao, Joachim. (Homepage: (URL) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Big Scenes
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(...) it (...) I've tried some weeks ago to build a small viewer compatible to the MLCad dat format extensions, using OpenGl. The result was: It was not much faster, and I was loosing all the features, build in into the 3D-Drawing engine of MLCad. (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) why don't you add opengl support? for people with acceleration ( not me :( ) it would be MUCH faster, with little or no quality loss Jonathan Gevaryahu Jgevaryahu(remove)@hotmail.com (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) step precession-level from no studs, over lines (like LEdit), coase studs and normal studs. First speed measurements indicated a increase of up to factor 10! Please stand by, I will try to release this version as soon as possible. Michael (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Big Scenes
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Hi, working on a big project, I got a problem: I build, using many subparts, that have to be only placed around in the scene. But all editors go VERY slow, because of the amount of pieces (I know I could do it with an calculator and text editor). (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Help! - MLCAD won't read 754.dat
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(...) Okey-day. Consider them deleted. Steve (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Help! - MLCAD won't read 754.dat
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Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:s1m5bs49sah2vvq...4ax.com... (...) is (...) *valid*, (...) next (...) Steve, Those two lines can just be deleted from the file. That's probably what you meant by cleaning up, but just to (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Color Palette
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Joel Hoornbeek wrote... (...) The LDraw colors are 0-15, 32-47, 256-511 (and of course 16 and 24). New "unofficial" colors were defined for LDLite, 17-23, 25, 57. These have been adapted by MLCad and will soon be by L3P too. See also (URL) C. (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Color Palette
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As long as somebody is answering questions about color, maybe you can answer mine too. I've recently started using L3P as my conversion tool, and I've been quite happy with the results. However, it doesn't like some of the MLcad colors, such as (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Color Palette
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Is there a way to make the color palette larger so that it displays more then 16 colors at once? Alternately, is there a way to move the colors around so that I can put the ones that i use more in the first 16 slots so that they show up in the (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | MLCAD multiple selection
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Hello, I am using MLCAD for a few days now, and i have a problem with selecting multiple parts that are close together. The program displays a bounding box around the selection and its not possible to select other parts that are close/behind to your (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCad Suggestions
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Ralph Hempel writes: <SNIP> I'm thinking about rewriting the portion where MLCad displays the parts tree and the parts preview ... I thought about using resizeable tool-boxes ínstead of the panes, which makes it possible to have (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: MLCad Suggestions
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Ralph Hempel writes: <SNIP> (...) that (...) First there is a similar option existing already: Press 'I' and a dialog will pop-up, here you can enter the part number (with .dat) pressing ENTER or OK will insert the part. This (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | RE: MLCad Suggestions
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One thing I forgot to add was the ability to right-click the part preview (part select) window and have it float behind the actual MLCad window, or maximize until you select your part. The part preview should show as much info as possible. This (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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