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Wha-hoo! That did it. Thanks alot Tom Heverly (...) (23 years ago, 16-May-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) You need to download the main library files. These are ldraw.exe (the original LDraw software) and complete.exe (the complete collection of LCAD part updates). These are both ARJ archives, in self-extracting packages (just like lcad0002.exe (...) (23 years ago, 15-May-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Well if your useing MLcad, go to 'file' and select 'scan parts'. This will ask you if you want to add any new parts it finds to the directory. When I installed MLcad I had to do this twice before I had all the parts that were soposed to be there! (...) (23 years ago, 14-May-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I'm trying to build my first L-draw / MLcad model, and my first step was to use a 1x10 technic beam, and since my parts list only has 1x2 and 1x14, my virtual creation stopped before it started. I'll bet there is a simple way to convert the 1x14 (...) (23 years ago, 14-May-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Solution concerning MLCAD colors (was Re: Question about MLCAD colors)
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(...) Tim, Color 24 in MLCAD was purposely made to be different that Dark Gray (8), the same way Color 16 is to be different from Light Gray (7). The problem is that it tends to make it them darker than both colors [7 & 8], leaving the Edge Color at (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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In addition to this I personally feel that the grey edge colour for black elements is too dark, it works for one black element but when you have a black model the joins become nearly invisible. Is it posible to create user defined custom colours (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Good Evening. I am writing to give my own suggestion about colors in MLCAD, based on pre-existing colors in LDraw. While some of the colors [when converting LDraw usage to MLCAD usage] turned out pretty well, others appeared so shockingly different, (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Thank you both very much, I must be cracking up as I was sure I had checked 'wedge', sorry to bother you. Psi (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Simon Bennett" <simon.bennett@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:GBxKIw.4zu@lugnet.com... (...) is (...) Try 6565 and 6564 - Wedge 3 x 2 left and right. Dan (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Simon, It's called a "Wedge 3 x 2 Left" or a "Wedge 3 x 2 Right". In MLCad, look under "Other Parts" and "W". -Andy Lynch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Bennett" <simon.bennett@ntlworld.com> To: <lugnet.cad.mlcad@lugnet.com> Sent: (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hello I have just got myself set up with MLCAD and I am drawing up all the MOCs that I have been unable to break down due to not wishing to forget how to build them but I have run into a problem which I hope this is the right place to come for an (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Thank you for the bug report - I will check that today and fix it for V2.00 Michael "Maico Arts" <maico@m-arts.demon.nl> wrote in message news:GB4p7x.2Ep@lugnet.com... (...) (23 years ago, 4-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hello (Michael?) I think I have found a bug in mlcad when printing the partslist. I am making inventory lists ofall my technic sets. I have build all sets I have, put them back in the boxes and added the extra parts. Using ML Cad I am making (...) (23 years ago, 1-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) I had essentially the same problem and found the following fix; Select 'Printer Setup' in MLCAD Select 'Properties' Check 'Scale to Fit' Check 'Scale to fit paper in printer' Then about three 'OKs' I don't know about others but this seems to (...) (24 years ago, 25-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hey, There should be some buttons with arrows going around axes. These control the rotation of an element around the x, y, and z axes. The degree of rotation is determined by the grid icon. You can also edit the amount of rotation by going to (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hey Dug, I have had some difficulty with that at times as well. One way I began to over come the problem was to open the rotation dialog bod and go to the bottom text window (you have to click the radio button to enable it). And enter "1 0 0 0 1 0 0 (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Hi all, I'm pretty much new to MLcad, although I'm not quite new to the world of CAD. I had some trouble after rotating a part at 45deg. After that I couldn't get the rotation angle back to 90.... Pieces were rotating all over the place, but not at (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Ryan Farrington" <ryanjf@ifriendly.com> wrote in message news:00bb01c0b234$6b...dly.com... (...) No, I didn't - thanks for letting me know. It's still a bit of a pain as my home and end keys are in the far top right of the keyboard and next to each (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) a (...) maybe (...) the (...) [snip] Home and End move pieces up and down in the Y axis. (I don't know if you knew that...) Regards, --Ryan (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Maybe I have something setup incorrectly here, or maybe I'm asking for something that is in the works for v2, but I find it a pain to use my "mouse" (it's a flat pad on a laptop PC and not very easy to use) to move parts in the 3 views so I tend to (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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