I have posted a test release for LDView 4.4 Beta 5 to GitHub:

https://github.com/tcobbs/ldview/release...v4.4_Beta5

This release mainly contains bug fixes since Beta 4, along with a few new features. The biggest new feature is the ability to search in the Model Tree Dialog. Also, if edge lines are enabled, the model tree highlight has the edge lines for the highlighted element show through all other geometry in the model, so even a fully hidden element will still be visible.

For this release, the Windows versions are built using new versions of Visual Studio. The 64-bit version is compiled with Visual Studio 2019 (compared to 2015 before), and is no longer compatible with Windows XP. The 32-bit version is compiled with Visual Studio 2017, and should still be compatible with Windows XP.

The ChangeHistory.html file that is included in the release lists all of the changes since LDView 4.3. In the macOS version, ChangeHistory.html is in the dmg. In the Windows version, ChangeHistory.html gets installed to wherever you install LDView (C:\Program Files\LDView by default). I'm actually not sure where it goes in the Linux version. Please see my Alpha 6 announcement for a list of what I feel are the most important changes relative to LDView 4.3.

Please let me know about any problems you find. The preferred way to do that is with LDView's GitHub Issues tracker. However, if you do not want to create a GitHub account so that you can do that, you can reply to this message.

My hope is that this is the last beta release before an official LDView 4.4 release. (I know I said that for the last release, but unfortunately I made too many changes to be comfortable with a final release without one more test release.)

How do you move/drag step picture in LPub3D? I want to center the step picture on the page and it always seems to be more left of center. I tried selecting the picture and dragging it but it will not move when I do this.

A bit of a wierd question, maybe, but what's the fastest ldraw editor? On any platform?

I'm wondering because the project I'm working on right now has a massive ldraw file. 25Mb and well over 100,000 parts. LeoCAD takes almost an hour just to open the file on my MacBook. Even a brand new M1 MacBook takes 3 seconds to redraw it if I change angles.

Would this be much quicker on a PC or in another editor? Would I need to shell out for a chunky graphics card? I have a lot of editing to do so I'm willing to look at any option!

I took a LDraw model I made and broke it up into submodels. Each submodel is not centered when you view the submodel. Is there a way I can move and rotate the submodel but not have the submodel part in the main submodel be moved or rotated? Everythng in the main model is in place and it would be nice if the submodels were centered when viewing the submodels on their own.

When I got to the omr.ldraw.org I get a Internal 500 error for the past few days. Is the OMR down?

Hi, I'm new here and I hope it's not too inappropriate for me to already ask for a part (I'd try to make it myself, but I wouldn't even know where to start haha).

Long story short, if anyone as the time and the patience to make Batgirl's cowl (part number 28777 | https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/cat...9#T=C&C=89) I'd be really grateful.

Thanks in advance to all of you.

I am searching this part for hours and I am not able to find it. I have searched rebrickable and bricklink. Does anybody know this part?

Does the LDR/DAT file format have an official level of precision? To how many decimal places do we store numerical values in files?

Hello,
I would like to give the Jackhammer (30228) to a mini figure in both hands.
With the minifigure generator in MLCad, I can only put the jackhammer in one of the two hands and the adjustment so that the jackhammer is held by both hands has to be done manually. This is very complex and the result may be inaccurate.
Does anyone know of an easier solution?


Greetings

Manfred

Hey,

this version uses a different configuration file.
Therefore, it will be necessary to reset all your custom LDPE settings.

What you can do as a workaround:

• run two LDPE instances in parallel (0.8.53 + 0.8.52) and open both option menus to sync the settings manually.
  
• take screenshots from your options menu entries in 0.8.52 before installing 0.8.53.
  

• ...benefit from about 100 different optimizations to LDPEs code base (I added 180000 lines and deleted 185000 lines of code since the last release).
  
• ...benefit from a new, more robust and secure method which loads and saves LDPEs configuration file.
  
• ...get improved hints and tips for the startup dialog (seen on first program start).
  

1. Undo / Redo broke the 3D model if the file ended with empty lines or contained duplicated empty line groups.
   
2. The calculated colour for transparent textures was too dark. (OpenGL 2.0)
   
3. On MacOS X it was not possible to reassign a shortkey, because the dialog window had not the required focus for detecting the keyboard input.
   
4. Avoided obvious divisions by zero on "zoom to fit" with empty models and by scaling a zero-height font with Txt2Dat.
   
5. The 3D editor freezed by an BFC INVERTNEXT without a following TYPE 1 reference line.
   
6. "Make subpart from 3D selection" duplicated "0 BFC INVERTNEXT" meta commands.
   

1. Download the zip-Archive
   
2. Extract the archive content to the location of your choice
   
3. On windows, double-click "run.bat" to start LDPE.
   
4. On linux/mac, you have to excecute the shell script "run.sh" to start LDPE.
   

1. On windows, double-click "update.bat" to search for updates.
   
2. On linux/mac, you have to excecute the shell script "update.sh".
   

• 64-bit Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.8
  
• OpenGL 2.1 compatible Graphics Card
  
• Operating System (64-bit): Windows [7 or newer], Linux [e.g. Ubuntu Linux >=14.4], Mac OS X [>=10.6]
  
• CPU: Multicore-Processor e.g. Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon II (>2.0Ghz)
  
• RAM: 4GB
  
• Video-Memory: 1 GB
  
• Free Disk Space: 100 MB
  

• Operating System (64bit): Windows 7,8,10, Linux [e.g. Ubuntu Linux >=14.4], Mac OS X [>=10.6]
  
• OpenGL 3.3 compatible Graphics Card
  
• CPU: Multicore-Processor with 4 cores (or more)
  
• RAM: >4 GB
  
• Video-Memory: >1 GB
  
• Free Disk Space: 512 MB
  
• For a faster start, LDPartEditor and the LDraw™ library should be installed on an SSD.