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Re: Custom Built LEGO Sets in 2002
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lugnet.cad.mlcad
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Fri, 8 Dec 2000 14:53:18 GMT
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message
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> In lugnet.cad, Charles Eric McCarthy writes:
> > Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> > > Seriously I don't know that any sort of market survey has been taken • but I
> > > think MLCad has a lot of adherents. It's pretty well supported by the
> > > author. Feature rich, graphical, easy to use (except for the helps • which are
> > > broken, unfortunately) and fast.
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> > For free software MLCad is great. I used it to create a set.
> > However, in my experience the output was of horrible quality.
> > Even though I used the highest resolution, it lost most of the
> > horizontal lines between layers of bricks, and I spent lots of time
> > in a paint program drawing lines back in.
I've had this problem, too. It's mostly troublesome where two parts of
the same color are stacked on each other. In 3D view, it seems that the
lines on the "front" faces (in the bitmap they run from lower right corner
to upper left corner) most often disappear.
Could this be a matter of what items are drawn first, lines or planes?
-John Van
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 | | Re: Custom Built LEGO Sets in 2002
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| (...) Possibly! I got a copy of the latest LDLite and it does a much better job of rendering the edge lines. However it doesn't support .mpd files as well, when you point it at an MPD it only renders the first subpart it finds, or so it seems. Also (...) (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Custom Built LEGO Sets in 2002
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| (...) I don't have as much of a problem with that, but it's not as high quality as I'd like. Long term I think the ability to plug in different render engines is in plan. I do see this as a bit of a problem and would be interested in the opinions of (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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