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Re: How do I speed things up ?
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Fri, 3 Nov 2000 05:34:01 GMT
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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



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  Re: How do I speed things up ?
 
(...) 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)
  Re: How do I speed things up ?
 
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)
  Re: How do I speed things up ?
 
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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  How do I speed things up ?
 
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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