To get a report of comments in your model, or of the used parts select the menu "Report/Comments...". The dialog show below will pop up:
To get the comments of the parts used in the model check the "Show comments of parts" item.
Normaly MLCad displays only new style comments this is lines with the format "0 WRITE xxxx". To display the old style comments with the format "0 xxxx" check the item "Show old style comments".
To learn about the dimensions of the current model, select "Report/Dimensions..." from the menu. The following window is shown:
MLCad displays the dimensions (this is the width, depth and height of the model) in three different units where "Studs" represent the size in Lego units based on a 1x1x1 brick.
To find out which parts are used select the menu "Report/Pieces..." and the following window will apear:
MLCad reports parts based on their color, and displays the number of parts used, its color, part-number and description. Below the list the total number of parts used in the model are shown.
Check the item "Parts Per Step" to get a report based on the building steps. MLCad additionally displays the step number in which the parts are used. Below is an example of such a report:
The checkbox "Ignore colors" will create a report without taking care about the color.
The checkbox "Sub models" also takes care on sub-models.
This section lists some things to do if you wan't to get the program running faster (all of them remove some functionallity from the program).
This section lists things to do if you have memory problems.
In some rare cases I saw that the program could crash during startup. In this case please run the the program "RegEdit" which comes with you windows (From the start menu). Than follow the path HKEY_CURRENT_USER than SOFTWARE than LACHMANN the last path shown here is MLCad. When you delete this path all settings of MLCad are lost, but the program will than start-up, and ask you for the right path to LDraw.