This year's topics:
* New police logo (italic "POLICE" with red underline), along with a large police station 6398 and a wide variety of police vehicles
* The 2nd wave of 9V train system, including the legendary club car 4547
Thanks for adding .svg as an allowed attachment type. Could we get .lua as well? Or is that a malware liability? (Feel like this may have been brought up before…)
Also, is there a full list posted somewhere, or maybe that could be a sticky post or something?
I have "completed" (read: not perfectly) my second attempt at an LDCad script. It's attached below (change .txt to .lua).
This script scans an LDraw file for parts or submodels that are hidden by buffer exchange in the final display state. If it finds any, it comments out their type 1 reference lines in the code, so that they won't appear in LDView, Studio, or other programs that don't recognize the BUFEXCHG metas. (For my inner monologue on the development process, see this thread.)
The script only runs from the end of the file (i.e., the last step) so it shows the completed model. It's not meant to work on intermediate steps to show the visibility at any given build phase. It's more meant as a cleanup tool
Some functionality is missing in this version, but hopefully I can improve it in the future:
It's not recursive, so you have to run the script separately on any submodels that also use buffer exchange, as well as on the main file. (This because I'm not sure how to access all the subfile objects of an mpd file via the API.)
It modifies the current file, rather than writing a new file, so you'd want to save the changed file as a copy. Offering a choice here would be a nice feature.
Technically, it's not actually a toggle function since it doesn't work in reverse—you can't un-comment hidden lines with this script. Mainly this is because there's no way to tell a commented-out ref line generated by this script from one that's meant to be there already. (I suppose I could add a flag of some kind to the lines affected by the script.) Meanwhile, you can always just use LDCad's undo.
Please feel free to send me any test files, particularly those with complicated or unusual implementations of buffer exchange, or to test your own models. (In particular, there may be an issue with Wine, causing a crash when closing open files in LDCad.)
This rule is already mostly enforced by the current PT but a few parts have slipped through the cracks and will be strictly enforced by the new software. Mismatch is a holdable error.
Edit: This is now enforced by the new part submission validation.
!HISTORY Lines
Excluding header edits by an admin (those will be covered separately), if you edit a file in any way, you must have a !HISTORY line in the file. This is required by CC BY 2.0/4.0 and is currently not enforced by the PT. Lack of !HISTORY is a holdable error.
Note: if you already have a !HISTORY line for the part's current release iteration, you don't have to create a new entry, just add to the existing entry.
P.s. This model is not buildable for real because some bricks are not available in the color the game uses.
Have some fun finding a colorscheme that can be build!
The 2022-06 LDraw Parts Update has been released. This update adds 434 new files to the core library, including 333 new parts and 7 new primitives.
Thanks are due to all the part authors who created or corrected parts for this release. The small, but dedicated, band of reviewers also play an important role in keeping files moving through the Parts Tracker and deserve just as much credit. This update wouldn't have been possible without their dedication and attention to detail.
You can preview the new parts in 2022-06 here, and download the zip-file update or Windows install package here. Alternatively you can use the LDView menu option File | Check for Library Updates... to install the update.
Look for my "Parts Library Year in Review" after the New Year (a new thing I'm going to start).
Until then:
Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad, Fröhliche Weihnachten, Joyeux Noël, Vrolijk Kerstfeest, Glædelig Jul, Hyvää Joulua, Buon Natale, Feliz Natal, God Jul, and メリークリスマス
Evening all would like some help i want a flex-system hose that i can bend how i want the one i have circled is normal i can not bend the one on far left is too big where or is there one thanks for help
