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MLCAD Keyboard Commands? - DanV - 2022-07-02

Hi.  New to the forums but have been playing with LDraw for almost 20 years now.  For pretty much all of that time, I prefer to use MLCAD.  Note:  I have several PCs, the one I'm on now is the newest.  I didn't originally plan on putting LDraw on this PC but I am not currently able to access my other desktop physically.

I downloaded the LDraw AIOI about 3 hours ago.  Hate LeoCAD.  Just doesn't work for me.  So I downloaded MLCAD, and using it to make just a pickup truck is frustrating me to no end.

Huh  What happened to the keyboard controls?  PgUp and PgDn select previous and next parts rather than moving parts up/down the Z axis (unless that WAS Home/End but those do nothing too).  And the arrow keys do nothing at all.  Kind of difficult to select about a dozen parts to move them rearwards say 4 studs without moving them in another axis or out of line somehow.

I merely want to build a pickup with a camper, possibly a 5th wheel.  Truck so far is going to be 24 studs long by 8 wide, and the trailer is going to be 10 wide, don't know the length.  I have some of the truck chassis figured out but need to make it longer and the lack of keyboard controls is frustrating me like crazy.

RE: MLCAD Keyboard Commands? - Roland Melkert - 2022-07-05

(2022-07-02, 21:53)DanV Wrote: Huh  What happened to the keyboard controls?  PgUp and PgDn select previous and next parts rather than moving parts up/down the Z axis (unless that WAS Home/End but those do nothing too).  And the arrow keys do nothing at all.  Kind of difficult to select about a dozen parts to move them rearwards say 4 studs without moving them in another axis or out of line somehow.

I merely want to build a pickup with a camper, possibly a 5th wheel.  Truck so far is going to be 24 studs long by 8 wide, and the trailer is going to be 10 wide, don't know the length.  I have some of the truck chassis figured out but need to make it longer and the lack of keyboard controls is frustrating me like crazy.

I don't think MLCad ever used many shortcuts, just the arrow keys if I remember correctly.

You didn't mention my LDCad, so if you are on Windows or Linux you could try that one.

Its workflow is similar to MLCad but with many (configurable) shortcuts and accelerated 3D.