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mlcad
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lugnet.loc.ie
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Thu, 5 Jul 2001 23:12:47 GMT
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Hi guys,
Any tips on mlcad ?
I find I'm too slow to get going i.e. it requires too much effort ;)
a lot of it seems wasted, mis-positioning etc
I've put together a few simple models but it seemed to take forever
so I gave up. Any quick tips to save time?
Ronan
Nick Huggins <nick@irishgaming.com> wrote in message
news:GFzv8z.5yC@lugnet.com...
> > I'm from Cork and have the Mindstorms RIS kit and the R2D2 kit - what a • blast.
> > I have been watching LUGNET for a while now and have tinkered with MCLAD,
> > L3P, POV-Ray, etc. I even built and modelled the BattleDroid. Check out:
> >
> > http://homepage.eircom.net/~mindstorms/bd.jpg
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> Hey - That's cool! I've been slowly learning MLCAD and only recently • started
> to model things entirely virtually. I'll fire a few up onto BrickShelf one
> day... Is the R2D2 kit any good? I'd avoided it and the Dark Side kit 'cos
> they looked more for kids. Actually now that I've said that it makes no
> sense. I mean, theoretically most Lego is for kids, right? Argh.
>
> Mindstorms question for you (and anyone else) - Have you ever built any • kind
> of mobile robot that *doesn't* work on treads that turns properly on • carpet?
> I've been trying to do that for a while... I had a robot on the big wheels
> you get with the RIS (1.0) which had a seperate rack and pinion steering
> mechanism, but even on the lowest speed setting for the motor the stress • of
> turning the wheels broke the mechanism after a couple of three point turns • :(
>
> > Smiths in Cork would be my only source, apart from Shop@home.
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> Aha! So there *are* Smythseseses outside Dublin!
>
> Nick.
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| (...) Hm. I've built a dozen or so models now - mostly from instructions on Brickshelf. But on the other hand, it took less than three hours to build the 497, and that's a bigish model. I'd suggest doing it slowly: Build something really small first (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.ie)
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| (...) Ronan, I recently started using MLCad myself. I too found it a little tough to get started. I actually make sure that I sit down with a completely or somewhat built model. This helps me to visual what I am making on the screen. I would also (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.ie, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| (...) to model things entirely virtually. I'll fire a few up onto BrickShelf one day... Is the R2D2 kit any good? I'd avoided it and the Dark Side kit 'cos they looked more for kids. Actually now that I've said that it makes no sense. I mean, (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.ie)
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