SnapCAD is available!

[Philippe Hurbain]

SnapCAD was released officially yesterday by VEX. This is a "new" LDraw editor that targets robot building using VEX IQ parts. It is an adapted version of MLCad, and uses the parts that I modeled from VEX 3D models.

See SnapCAD page here.

As a side note, SnapCAD can be used for regular LDraw stuff (your just have to change default library and categories). And it does correct a few MLCad known bugs, such as the greyed-out vector rotation (you must uncheck "absolute position" to make it available).

[Michael Horvath]

The screenshot is very small. Do you have a bigger one?

[Philippe Hurbain]

There are HD video tutorials here: http://www.robotc.net/blog/2015/07/09/snapcad/

[Michael Horvath]

This looks very cool. Which bugs did you fix?

[Philippe Hurbain]

(not me, but Michel Lachmann!)
o Rotation vector enabled on relative operations
o Fix undo bug for primitives
o Fix undo bug for rotation point
o Fix BFC statement corruption
o Fix image for unknown part

[Michael Horvath]

Oh, I thought you were developing it.

[Philippe Hurbain]

Closed source...

[Roland Melkert]

Just wondering..

Why did he release this as snapcad and not just MLCad 3.x with some changed config files etc?

[Philippe Hurbain]

Because he got missionned by VEX and they needed a face lift to remove references to the somewhat competing LLEGO company... I was hoping he would release a MLCad 3.x with those bugs corrected, but nothing so far

[Michael Horvath]

Not likely he'll fix the nested MPD bug...

[Steffen]

did you know this...?:

https://www.lm-software.com/mlcad/MLCad_V3.50.zip