If complimentary conds are something we're going to hold vote then they need to be documented somewhere other than having to search the forums. My understanding was that they are nice to have but not required. Either way we need better documentation and I'm not the best person to write it.

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I am trying to generate instructions for a model but LPub is only giving me the parts list and a picture of the model. There are no building steps. What am I doing wrong? Please help.

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I'm trying to use a 2x1 hinge and set the 2x2 hinge top at a 45 degree angle but I can't get the bar to attach properly into the cradle when I have the top at the angle. Please help.

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Hey, everyone. I’m new to adding custom textures to .DAT files from LDraw. I would like to know what programs are needed and a detailed tutorial on how to apply the decals.

I’m trying to apply custom faces into this subfile, but I want to learn how to do it.

Part 31512 - Powerpuff Girls Face

Hello,

I have a few comments on the official library part number specification.


First point.

I think the following sentence in the specification should be corrected:

"This is managed by adding a single alpha character to the end of the base part number (e.g. 3626a.DAT and 3626a.DAT, the solid stud and hollow stud versions of the minifig head)."

The correct sentence should be (see the second 3626.dat):

"This is managed by adding a single alpha character to the end of the base part number (e.g. 3626a.DAT and 3626c.DAT, the solid stud and hollow stud versions of the minifig head)."

Second point.

The description for the shortcuts is, in my opinion, inaccurate.
It is described that the shortcuts are marked by appending a c-suffix, e. g. c01.
It is not described how to proceed if there are two identical shorcuts that differ in the color of a part.
See for this a Forum post of me to the monkey 2550:

https://forums.ldraw.org/thread-26694.html

Here the second position was named with a new c-suffix (c02), although the color of the hands and feet are the same.
What if the monkey now has brown hands and feet?

In this case, I would use the c-suffix to determine the color and an f-suffix to determine the different positions.
c01 would be yellow and co2 would be brown.

Third point.

The description for the patterned parts is, in my opinion, inaccurate.
In the Parts Tracker are the following Minifig Heads: 3626bp84 and 3626cp7g.
This parts use the same pattern and only differ in the stud.
My suggestion is that the pattern is unique within a design. This is true even if there are multiple design numbers for the design, for example as at the round 2x2 tile (4150, 14769).

Regards

Manfred

Hi,

I'm the Debian maintainer of ldraw-parts: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ldraw-parts

I saw the new Contributor's agreement moving to CC BY 4.0 which is great for Debian because the legal problems of CC BY 2.0 made ldraw-parts "non-free" as far as the Debian free software guidelines are concerned. The CC BY 4.0 license doesn't have these problems and this would mean that ldraw-parts could be included into Debian "main" instead of "non-free".

Unfortunately, as of release 2205, I do not see any mentioning of the new license in the release zip. Instead, both CAlicense.txt as well as CAreadme.txt and all "!LICENSE" headers refer to "CCAL version 2.0".

https://www.ldraw.org/legal-info also still refers to CC BY 2.0.

Will this change in a future release?

"Sculpture" serie from 2000s

Hi folks,

I just updated the MLCad.ini file accordingly to the latest LDraw.org parts update 2022-05. The .ini file defines (among other things) the parts available in MLCad's, LEOCad's and Bricksmith's minifigure generator.

Download the file from my website: http://www.holly-wood.it/mlcad/mlcad_ini-en.html

Bye, w.

Looking at few parts, I have noticed that they are using 48/1-16chrd to bound circle to the various surfaces. Meanwhile that is fine use, it causes those chrds to overlap with circular surface when hi-res primitives are enabled in software like LDView. 

To deal with that I suggest an "ering-48" primitive. Essentially, it would be reverse of erings — visible when on normal quality and hidden when on high. Could something like that be added?