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(...) You can do that in a similar way already now: Select the parts by functionality (e.g. turning mechanism parts) and group them. Once you've grouped all parts, you can easely hide/unhide the groups as you like... Until now it's not possible to (...) (24 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi Micheal, I am wondering if it would be possible to use an unique identifier for each part belonging to a specific funcionality in the model. With this I mean: I would like to model for example the Technic Space Shuttle in MLCad and to see only (...) (24 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I thought something like that is happening, since I know many people not having problems. Therefor I write some statistical information during printing into the mlcad log file beginning with the next version. In the mean time people could (...) (24 years ago, 14-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Feature Requests
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snip (...) The help documentation is included in the program and thus will be on your had drive, but the path is wrong. I think I solved it by copying the relevant folders ('images' and 'english'(or 'german')) into a new folder called 'help', not (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Axles, pins, connectors and a lot of other technic parts do, and very frequently too! There's probably no simple and fail safe solution for the overlapping parts problem. For instace, imagine yourself doing it for a interaction of a cogwheel (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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how about support for wheeled mouses? if thats clicked down ie can scroll in any directions. -- And they said 'Computers will never be in general use' "Mike Walsh" <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:G9vuBq.9qL@lugnet.com... (...) were (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Michael Lachmann" <michael.lachmann@maxmobil.at> skrev i meddelandet news:G9ty1F.CpH@lugnet.com... (...) No need to test every line etc. - compute a bounding box (once) for each part, and the testing boils down to a few transformations and a region (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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"Ryan Farrington" <ryanjf@ifriendly.com> wrote in message news:002c01c0a7d4$02...dly.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) could (...) I personally would like scroll bars as well but others prefer the current solution. Apparently at one time (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) [snip] (...) and (...) Add (...) to (...) use (...) OTOH, scroll bars do take up space on the screen, and I already wish I could have more space... just my $.02 --Ryan (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"David M." <ElectroTX@webtv.net> wrote in message news:G9vCCD.5BE@lugnet.com... (...) too. (...) sink (...) (or (...) how (...) with (...) This would be so great, but would slow down the software so much that it might be unusable. At every single (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:G9uIE6.qq@lugnet.com... (...) explain (...) If it wasn't too much work to add a routine to do it I'd be happy to wait a bit longer for parts to be selected if I knew that everything (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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This is to Mike, but I want to see how many other people would like this, too. 1. Disallow the nesting of parts within other parts. When I drag a part (say, a 1x6 beam) onto another part, I don't want to be able to have it sink halfway into the part (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) So you are determining what to select based on something on the screen? I had expected you were doing it by coordinate filtering (but that may explain why you don't support selection in 3D) Personally I find it much more confusing not to (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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-- And they said 'Computers will never be in general use' <snap> (...) HMM that could be useful too. maybe use the color toolbar to select the color, then drag to pick all parts that has that color? also add "select all of that color" too. i got (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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| | Suggestion for fast access to settings
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Hi Michael I have a suggestion for fast access to grid settings: A double click on the icon should directly open the grid setting dialog. The same could be done for the general settings by clicking on mode icons (view mode, place mode, ...) Marc (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Selection based on part number as alternatives for the name can be usefull in some case (when you now the part number) The selection base on the name should accept regular expression. The same kind of regular expression you used for part list (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Michael Lachmann" <michael.lachmann@maxmobil.at> wrote in message news:G9ty1F.CpH@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) point (...) have (...) OK, I guess it could be more complicated than I thought - on my Mechanical Engineering degree course I took CAD (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Regarding the selection, MLCad uses a special buffer which keeps track of the parts visible on the screen. For all other parts I would have to go through the list of triangles, lines and quads until I find something in the rectangle. This can (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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"Michael Lachmann" <michael.lachmann@maxmobil.at> wrote in message news:G9tt3D.1Mx@lugnet.com... (...) parts (...) z-ordering. (...) go (...) rectangle. (...) I'm not sure I understand why this is complicated, surely you just need to check each part (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad)
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