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Thank, that explains a lot. -Orion (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I use this color number: 0x0000017F,it makes more of a chrome than silver when rendered, but it showes as silver in MLCad.Jay Cal used it first and I got it from one of his .dats that I requested from him. it was this car, You can see how the color (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) 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)
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You can specify the color in MLCad (silver: #383), but it takes on the characteristics of silver only when it's rendered in POV-ray. --Ryan (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Does anybody know how to make the color silver available/work in MLCad? Or is that a POV-Ray thing? Rob McMurray spaceghost0@dellmail.com (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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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)
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(...) One more part-finding suggestion: if you're online, use Partsref or Peeron.com. (URL) gives you a list of all the Partsref categories, and a search function. (URL) gives you a search box that will hit all recorded parts and sets. Once you know (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Heh heh. This topic deserves a FAQ all to itself, I think. Anyway, if you see a four or five digit number embossed on the part, that should be the number. Usually the number is embossed on the inside of the part, often in the smallest nook or (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"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)
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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"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)
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Thanks for the help the minifigs guys. As for part numbers, here the story: A while back I was looking for a part to go in a technic model I was building. After looking up the number at Technica, I serched lugnet.cad.parts to find the particular (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Hi Orion, I just wrote about minifigs the other day in .castle: (URL) part numbers, check Partsref at (URL) Patrick's printable reference guide: (URL) this helps! Cheers, Heather -- Heather Patey Pirate Wench / Brick Detective LUGNET Member (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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I have a couple of questions: 1.) What's the easiest way to put minifigs in your scene? Construction from scratch is a pain and I don't know how to modify the shorcuts in MLCad. 2.) What's the source for part numbers? All I can find is Technica for (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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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)
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(...) 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)
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