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Re: LDraw
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 8 Apr 2003 02:21:22 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, "Brass Tilde" <brasstilde@insightbb.com> writes:
> > > MLCad provides you the ability to view other people's LDraw files, just
> > > ignore its ability to create new LDraw files.
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> Well, MLCad certainly does work. As others have pointed out, it apparently
> only uses the parts listings from LDraw/LEdit.
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> Now however, I have another problem. The particular model I'm looking at
> apparently wasn't set up with the "0 Step" instructions to go step by step.
> While I can add these instructions to the .DAT file, it doesn't do me much
> good, as the pieces that I'm interested in are drawn *after* the pieces that
> cover them up.
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> Am I better off:
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> A. Restructuring the .DAT file to draw the pieces I'm interested in first?
> Will that even work? (I've successfully used LDLite to draw the model.)
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> B. Let it draw the whole model, then "peel" away the pieces that obscure
> the parts I'm interested in? Is *that* doable from within MLCad?
In MLCad, you can click on the parts that you want to peel away, and make
the invisible, by right clicking the mouse and using the visibility sub-menu.
This throws nothing out, but makes it easy to see what you want to see.
Kevin
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> Thanks,
> Brass
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| (...) Well, MLCad certainly does work. As others have pointed out, it apparently only uses the parts listings from LDraw/LEdit. Now however, I have another problem. The particular model I'm looking at apparently wasn't set up with the "0 Step" (...) (21 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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