The 2020-02 LDraw Parts Update has been now been released. This adds 712 new files to the core library, including 510 new parts and 15 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. 

You can preview the new parts in 2020-02 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.

I encountered some fairly common (and highly sought) new parts that are missing, which sadly prevents me from adding labels for these parts to my LEGO Brick Labels collection.

I'd love to see these added to the collection!

• 66956 - 8 sets, 5 colors.
  
• 65803 - 4 sets, 1 color (LEGO Art)
  
• 67139 - 4 sets, 1 color (LEGO Art)
  
• 55819 - 4 sets, 1 color (LEGO Art)
  

• 27393 - 2017+ 33 sets, 7 colors.
  

Is this the same pattern? If so, why is there a grey border around the whole pattern?

   


https://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.c...200phb.dat


https://www.ldraw.org/parts/official-par...tid=973phb

I finally wrote a script to enable checking Official Parts for conformity with some of the new requirements/clarifications in the Official Library Spec.

Here's the first result:

Official Parts that have a pattern code filename but no "Pattern" in the description
https://www.ldraw.org/part-db.html?nopattern=1
(Note: I filtered out the ~Moved To and Obsolete parts from this list)

I also found a malformed HISTORY line in these 2 parts:
95656.dat
https://www.ldraw.org/parts/official-par...rtid=95656
11143.dat
https://www.ldraw.org/parts/official-par...rtid=11143

Hello all, long time user, first time poster.

I am using LDView 4.3 and 4.2 on two different Win7 x64 machines on different networks and I get the same behavior.  Whenever I try to update the library it gets to "Parsing Updates List" and freezes.  Once I hit the X on the update dialog it throws the "close program" dialog.  Anyone else seeing this or have any solutions?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/theclbfwx8novc...1.png?dl=0

Is this even possible? 

Right now if I create a multi step page and one of the steps has a callout, that callout is counted as the step's total area for the purposes of margin calculation. This is an issue if I want to make a second column. 

Maybe there is a way to have the default callout position, and therefore margin calculation, to be under the step image instead of to the right? Then I could used the 0 !LPUB RESERVE and/or margin parameters to better shape the way the page is laid out. 

Thanks,
Cameron

PS has anyone heard from Trevor? I have emailed a couple times and havent seen him respond on sourceforge in months. The last login here was also in early march.

Hi,

I need help finishing my implementation of part BEAD004, I need the stud to be fully hollow so a bar can go right through it and also the bottom tube is intersecting the top wall of the brick slightly.

Here is my code so far:

4 16 -15 30 -15 -15 0 -15 15 0 -15 15 30 -15
4 16 15 30 -15 12 30 -12 -12 30 -12 -15 30 -15
4 16 15 30 15 12 30 12 12 30 -12 15 30 -15
4 16 -15 30 15 -12 30 12 12 30 12 15 30 15
4 16 -15 30 -15 -12 30 -12 -12 30 12 -15 30 15
0
1 16 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 -7.25 0 0 0 1 stud4.dat
1 16 0 30 0 15 0 0 0 -30 0 0 0 15 box4t.dat
0 BFC INVERTNEXT
1 16 0 30 0 12 0 0 0 -26 0 0 0 12 box5.dat
1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 stud2.dat


Here are some references to the parts design:
https://youtu.be/eiegAdgSpcg?t=481
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/cat...ead004#T=C

There is also a load of other beads that are super useful that I would like to see but thats maybe for a seperate thread, and they are too complex for a beginner like me to make in LDRAW.

Regards, Snipe.

I have recently installed the LDraw AIOI installer, and trying to get started with it. 

I have a model open in LDView, and it is looking good. I then try to use the snapshot function to get a png file render of the model, but the resulting file is coming up as empty/black.

I'm highly proficient with computers, but new to everything LDraw. I've tried to find a troubleshooting guide or a forum post of someone else experiencing this problem before, to fix the problem myself, but come up blank.

So I'm hoping can someone here help me out. Any suggestions what might be configured wrong, or I'm doing wrong, etc?

Hey,

this release added support for newer Java versions (e.g. Java 9, Java 10...).
The minimum required Java version is still version 8. You can skip this release if you like, since no other features were added.


As always, you can download LDPE from this page:
http://nilsschmidt1337.github.io/ldparteditor/

Changelog:
(1 bug fix)

With this release the following critical issue is fixed:

1. The Windows program (LDPartEditor.exe) will now start with support of newer Java versions.
   

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
  

• 64-bit Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.8 (or newer)
  
• 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.
  

Hello,

I am looking for the minifig head with the BrickLink number 3626cpb1522 as a LDRAW part.


  3626cpb1522.png (Size: 128.85 KB / Downloads: 63)

Can anybody do this for me.
Thanks in advance.
Regards

Manfred