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I just created a model of mine in mlcad. And i want to take pics of it in the program, such as save pictures as in the file menu. The only view it's letting me save as is the 3D view. Is there any way i can save pics as a different view? Thanks a (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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You can always hit the print screen key on your keyboard, then open a graffics program(like MS Paint), paste in the screenshot, crop out the extra stuff, and then save the file as a .jpg. There may be a way to do this with MLCAD, but I forget. But (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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The 'manual' method I follow to create pictures of my MLCad models are: 1. After saving the completed model, quit MLCad. 2. Restart MLCad. The completed model now shows up in the Models list. 3. Select the model as if using it like a part. 4. Rotate (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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"Mark Chittenden" <mdublade@aol.com> wrote in message news:GGrw44.HEI@lugnet.com... (...) POVRAY (...) I'm a point-and-click person myself - download L3PAO and L3P, install POV-RAY, and voila! great POV renderings at the click of a few buttons. Get (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Brice Williams (...) it's (...) What I do is go into Settings>General>Change, click the Document tab and change the angles the model will be displayed at, click OK. If you are in the view mode, click the button that puts you in edit mode, and then (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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In a word - awesome! Took me a couple tries to get it going, but oh man that is SOOO much easier than the clunky way I was doing it... Thanks for pointing me in a better direction! Mark (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) That's interesting... My Win95 MS Paint program won't make jpegs, at least not in color...(IIRC) But my Win98 will... (But MLCad's not installed on the 98 'puter. --Electro-- (23 years ago, 22-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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Another methode would be to add a rotation step at the beginning of the model, rotate it into the angles you like, and now generate the pictures ... With that you do not need second and third party tools, nore do you have to change any settings. (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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