Hello all.

Orion pointed my to the Collada format in this thread:
https://forums.ldraw.org/thread-23915-po...l#pid36135

Couple of hours later I had a very basic highly experimental export for it in LDCad opening many exiting possibilities for using LDraw content inside blender.

But my lack of Blender experience is a bit of slowdown.

I would really appropriate some help in setting up some basic materials to use on the LDraw meshes/objects.

Can anyone share some pointers on this ?

A basic LEGO like plastic and rubber would be a great starter.

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Bit of an oddball request, perhaps, but to me a model isn't complete unless it's complete. 

I wonder if anyone has taken a crack at the tablecloth/picnic blanket from set 10242 - MINI Cooper? The basic part would probably be pretty simple, but it would also need a formed version, because it should be folded 3x per the instructions (see book 1, page 64, or the screen shot below).

   

Hi,

I was wondering if anybody would be so kind as to do the 6672 Duplo Toolo Windscreen because it would be a cool part to use for large scale lego helicopter MOCS. I'm sure people will come up with clever techniques in order to attach it somehow to reguglar lego parts.

I tried to buy two of these parts from bricklink, one was to keep to use in MOCS and the other was to donate to LDRAW part authors but for some reason the shipping/other costs came to like £19 while the parts themselves were literally pennies. (I live in the UK but the seller was from abroad).

Regards, Snipe

Technic 2005

Dear designers,

I tried to make a 3D print of 48168 Technic Turntable Type 2 Top.
- Downloaded STL file
- sliced with Cura
Result: the innner circle of the obkect did only stay open when the object balanced on its side. turning it to platform the result was a closed innner gap as you can see in the first two pictures.
- sliced with Slic3r
Result: bad print but gap was open. See next two pictures.

Is this a problem of desig or of my slicer settings?

George

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Hello.

I often work on making graphics around LEGO activities (book covers, tickets... also prints on bricks etc.). For this purpose it would be very handy to be able to get SVG output from LDCAD. AFAIK, there should be an indirect way using Blender, shouldn't it? Does anybody tested this path already? And/or is there an easier way?

Thanks a lot, Milan.

Till now I used the cyls and cyls2 primitives mainly in their available quarter editions, respectively in their 1/8th size

Now I would need a sub-division that does not start at the smallest part (as it is with the 3-16cyls) but one that starts from the tallest one.

- How should those be called? Basically it would be a 1-8cyl...

- And would LDView do Primitive Substitution for those as well?
   

The sticker sheet (6283148) for the Land Rover Defender set 42110 includes 35 numbered stickers. Some are mirror images of each other and in two cases the identical left and right versions have different numbers. To accommodate these in our sticker numbering schema, I am proposing a single character suffix for the unique stickers and a letter-number suffix for the mirror imaged stickers. This allows us to fit within the 26 alpha suffices:

1,3 -> a
2 -> b
3 -> c
4,12 -> d
5 -> e
6 -> f
7 -> g
8 -> h
9 -> i
10 -> j
11 -> k
14, 19 -> l1, l2
15 -> m
16, 18 -> n1, n2
17 -> o
20, 32 -> p1, p2
21, 31 -> q1, q2
22, 30 -> r1, r2
23, 29 -> s1, s2
24, 28 -> t1, t2
25, 26 -> u1, u2
27 -> v
33 -> w
34 -> x
35 -> y

These will take a while to model, but 6283148y.dat has been submitted to the Parts Tracker.

No guesses what this luck chap got for Christmas!

I recently discovered that Studio's Eyesight renderer is a repackaged version of Blender's Cycles renderer. Maybe we could have some enterprising LDrawer write a true converter so that we don't have to deal with Studio's idiosyncrasies? In the interim, there's also Mechabrick's free Blender plugin (that I also recently discovered).