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Hi, I'm new to MLCAD and I'm wondering how I can speed things up. The Star Destroyer model I'm working on is rather large (5,000+ bricks in the skeleton alone !) and it takes several seconds for each screen redraw. Is there a way to just work with (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I have the same problems! Fortunately, there are several things you can do to speed things up: - First of all, make sure you have the very latest MLCAD release ( 1.99 ) - If you didn't download it in the last week, then its old. The older version (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Brad makes some good suggestions. The biggest one, I think, is to USE SUBASSEMBLIES. That is, make your main model an MPD and make lots of smaller sections that you assemble into one overall. when you are working on a subassembly you are only (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi, I haven't been working with MLCad too long, but I have run into the same sort of problems. Here is one suggestion that I have that works well, I think. If you are working on a large model, you can "hide" a whole bunch of pieces that are on a (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I go to this tab and set the "stud mode" to "None". It renders even faster yet. (It can make it a little difficult to work with at times.) If you plan to use Baseplates.... Wait until the end if you can. I try to place little markers for the (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Cool. Thank you for the suggestions so far everyone ! (...) Sure. Twist my arm... : ) LMKWYT (URL) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Woah! Now that's what I call construction! That's going to look fantastic when you get the bridge and reactors done. Royce (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Andy Lynch" <andy@andyandjackie.com> wrote in message news:004b01c0426c$20...lth.com... (...) pieces (...) minimize (...) the (...) Then (...) now (...) DAT (...) Thanks for this very good tip. -John Van (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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You're welcome! And thank you, John. I discovered that fact quite by accident. :-) Hope you and others are able to make some use of it. -Andy Lynch ----- Original Message ----- From: "John VanZwieten" <john_vanzwieten@email.msn.com> (...) (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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One thing you could also do is to use the 'hide' feature. When you select parts and activate 'hide" from the menu or tool-bar (the light's) the part will not be drawn anymore until you make it visible again from the menu or tool-bar (show, show (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Beside the fact that the next release will be faster than 1.99R1 :-) I have another idea: What if would be possible to mark certain parts for outline or wire-frame drawing? Would that be of any help? Michael (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Yes, it would help. How about having an option to draw all prior steps in wireframe mode? Or have a meta-statement to turn wireframe off and on? Either of those might be easier to use than flagging specific parts. Steve (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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It sure would ! I was thinking along these lines a few days ago and I tried a small experiment. I manually edited copies of the .dat files for the basic bricks that my model uses and removed all of the "extraneous" quads and studs so that each part (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Michael Lachmann skrev i meddelandet ... (...) Why not a mode which paints just the bounding boxes of pieces, instead of the detailed piece? This might be easier/faster than interpreting all the .dat-s and drawing all the lines. You also see the (...) (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I was thinking on that too, but this might be a bit confusing when parts are not like a box, like you said most of the technic parts. But sure this is also a possibility. Michael Anders Isaksson <isaksson.etuna@REMO...tninet.se> schrieb in im (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) In L3Lab you can see how it looks: hold down the SHIFT key while rotating the model by the mouse. /Lars (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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