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Re: Custom Built LEGO Sets in 2002
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lugnet.cad.mlcad
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Sat, 9 Dec 2000 06:56:05 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek <lpieniazek@mercator.com> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
G58nLA.K79@lugnet.com...
> 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.
The online-help is a thing to be improved - thats for sure. After I release
version 2.0 this will be the next item.
> > 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 noticed this myself, but it seems that I have problems with the exactness
of the drawing. Somewhere is a rounding problem or so which causes this
effects. I will have a look at that again.
> I don't have as much of a problem with that, but it's not as high quality • as
> I'd like.
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> 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 others as to what the best render engine to use is when the • goal
> is to make printable instructions. I would continue to use MLCad to design
> but use something else to make final renders.
there is another discussion regarding plug-ins already going. I will try to
find a generic concept which allows to use plugins in MLCad and release a
specification for that later.
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> > Also, I got zero (0) responses
> > to my question in lugnet.cad.mlcad, which didn't improve my
> > confidence in getting support.
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> Try asking again would be my suggestion... as with all of us, I'm sure ML
> goes through phases where he's pretty busy and phases where he's not.
I'm sorry, but sometimes I'm pretty busy in my company - than I do not have
the time to turn on my computer at home - sometimes I happy to NOT turn it
on .... that is when you do not get any response.
Sorry for that!
Michael
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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