 | | MLCAD introductory info
|
|
OK, well after months of using MLCAD to look at other people's creations, I have finally been bitten by the bug to make CAD models of my own stuff. However, as I get into MLCAD I have come up with a few things that I need some info on, as the Help (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
|
| |
| | Re: MLCAD introductory info
|
|
that dot is a Rotation point id suggest you to set it to hidden after setting it back to part orgain. -- And they said 'Computers will never be in general use' "Jake McKee" <sink@countersinkdg.com> wrote in message news:GELGz1.5nL@lugnet.com... (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
|
| |
| | Re: MLCAD introductory info
|
|
"Jake McKee" <sink@countersinkdg.com> wrote in message news:GELGz1.5nL@lugnet.com... (...) That dot is a custom rotation point, not the centre of the part. You can reset this from the Settings menu. (...) Never used it! (...) laid out? Sort of - you (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
|
| |
| | Re: MLCAD introductory info
|
|
"Jake McKee" <sink@countersinkdg.com> wrote in message news:GELGz1.5nL@lugnet.com... (...) That dot is a custom rotation point, not the centre of the part. You can reset this from the Settings menu. (...) Never used it! (...) laid out? Sort of - you (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
|
| |
| | Re: MLCAD introductory info
|
|
(...) it makes legos temperory hidden. great for cutaway views or move the misplaced part inside the model. i usually abuse that for very large models. ( like old big model of spaceship. i misplaced wings one stud forward and i had to use hide to (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
|
| |
| | Re: MLCAD introductory info
|
|
"Rolf" <rolf.spamlovesyou.r...fords.net> wrote in message news:GELqB7.32s@lugnet.com... (...) Oh, that - I use it all the time. I don't have MLCad in front of me for reference so I couldn't remember what the button looked like - I thought it was a (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
|
| |
| | Re: MLCAD introductory info
|
|
(...) Simple enough - right-click on a part in the list to add it to or remove it from Favorites. I don't think there's a way to change the order, except by hand, i.e. editing the text file 'MLC_Favorites.txt' in the program directory. Cheers, (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
|
| |
| | Re: MLCAD introductory info
|
|
wait a minute i might b mistaken. checking. hmm im wrong then. i dont know what its for since i never used it. sorry about my mistake. -- And they said 'Computers will never be in general use' "Daniel Crichton" <danielc@helio.co.uk> wrote in message (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
|
| |
| | Re: MLCAD introductory info
|
|
(...) Great! I'm glad to hear the Wonderful World of MLCAD has converted another LEGO head! (...) As numerous others have pointed out, this is a rotation point. It has caused me problems occasionally as well. Either hide it (by clicking on the brick (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
|
| |
| | Re: MLCAD introductory info
|
|
(...) The easiest way I know of is editing the text of the .dat/.mpd file in Notepad. -For mpd to dat, simply delete the lines starting with FILE, and those with the model title, Name, etc. -For separating .mpd's, open up a few Notepads and then (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
|
| |
| | Re: MLCAD introductory info
|
|
(...) Wow, that was such a simple, but effective answer! I was making it way too difficult! Thanks! Jake --- Jake McKee AFOL LUGNET Member #211 (23 years ago, 9-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
|
| |
| | Re: MLCAD introductory info
|
|
"Ryan Farrington" <ryanjf@ifriendly.com> wrote in message news:000b01c0f0e1$03...dly.com... (...) with (...) If you do this then you end up with referenced parts in the dat that don't exist as they were part of the mpd format, and you get all the (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
|
| |
| | Re: MLCAD introductory info
|
|
(...) You are right. That is absolutely what it did. I went through my sub models one by one to: - Create a comment line telling me where each submodel started - Opened both the master file and the submodel file in Notepad - Copied the submodel (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
|
| |
| | Re: MLCAD introductory info
|
|
(...) program (...) The Inline function in LDAO (by Steve Bliss) takes all the referenced subfiles in a DAT file and merges them into one file by transforming the parts. However, with the popularity of MPD, fewer people are inlining than they used (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
|
| |
| | Re: MLCAD introductory info
|
|
"Bram Lambrecht" <bram@cwru.edu> wrote in message news:004301c0f280$9a...erv.net... (...) I new there was something that already did this, but I couldn't remember what it was. Guess I'll have to look at using LDAO again to make this easier. One (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
|
| |
| | Re: MLCAD introductory info
|
|
In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Daniel Crichton wrote: [snip] (...) [more snip] I think Ryan just forgot the step 'save each section to its own .DAT file'. At least, I hope he didn't mean to just concatenate everything together in a single file. That'd be (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
|
| |
| | Re: MLCAD introductory info
|
|
(...) Heh, yeah. Hopefully that step was self-evident. :) Another step I left out is deleting the submodel line from the main model. --Ryan (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
|
