Hi everyone. My name is John and I just joined the forum. I didn't get into Lego's until I was in my 40's (I am 66 now and still playing with Lego's).
I saw the 8480 Space Shuttle when it came out and had to get it. I've been hooked on Technic ever since.
I am also into the Mindstorms/NXT/EV3 sets. I recently reverse engineered the program for the EV3 Puppy from the Lego EV3 Education set.

I haven't done any Lego cad work in quite a while and used MLCad. I just recently found out about LDCad.
I saw the 42110 Land Rover on the Lego Shop web site but wasn't interested in it at first.
Then I saw a you tube video of it showing the drive train. I decided to make a you tube video of how the drive train works.
You can see it here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3TfZbrkDfY.

I was told I should make an animation of the drive train, but haven't learned scripting on LDCad yet.
I also just found out about LDPE. I was using L3Lab, but wanted something with more features.

I am making the 42055 Bucket Wheel Excavator with LDCad, but didn't have the curved gear rack.
I decided I would try a hand at making it. In the past, I made the 32186 Steering Arm with 3 Balls and the 64394 Panel Fairing #13.
I made the steering arm when I was building the 8448 Super Street Sensation on MLCad.
I did an animation of an 8 cylinder engine using MLCad too.

On my you tube channel, I have videos of some robotic stuff made with Robotis Bioloid system. 

I guess that's enough for now.
Hope you find this short bio interesting.

John 

I can't get 6179.dat to load properly in Studio—its subfile 6179s01 is invisible and only the quad of the tup surface is rendered. (Interestingly, the one patterned version of the part does load correctly.) Can anyone reproduce?

EDIT: Definitely an issue on my end, and not a bug at all. I don't want to cast any undue criticism on this very fine program! 

I'm having a little trouble with the interface, and I'm guessing it's because I'm running LDCad on MacOS under Wine, but maybe it's a known bug, or perhaps my own error. There are two symptoms that appear to be related:

• Selecting: Normally, [left-]clicking a part will select it, or if it's already selected, will deselect it. Also, if a part is selected, clicking a different part will select that part while deselecting the first part. But quite often, these behaviors will stop working, and the only way I can proceed is to "force" deselect everything by pressing ESC—sometimes more than once, and even if nothing is currently selected. This doesn't happen every time, and seems to occur more often in certain models than in others.
  
• Rotating: Normally, dragging the empty part of the edit window will rotate the camera. But again, sometimes this stops working and I have to hit ESC to proceed (when this happens, dragging the edit window will simply scroll/pan the view). Often, it will still be possible to rotate the camera by dragging the edit compass, but other times, neither the compass nor the window works; and again, sometimes it's necessary to hit ESC multiple times.
  

Hi,

I just authored a sticker for the 364 - Harbour Scene:

   

which has been split off into subparts for reuse in other parts. The first candidate would be:

   

https://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.c...03829a.dat

Which uses a TEXMAP while mine is made of prims for primitive substitution in a viewer. Question is: Shall I rework 003829a substituting the TEXMAP with the subfiles from 004488a?

w.

I want to keep the camera on target. What do I need to do？thanks
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Today I wanted to update the LDInspector wiki page, but after login I get "Internal error" and "Fatal exception of type "Error"".

Did I something wrong?

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While working on snapping data I noticed the duplo engine hood top (u9507)  pin won't fit 6409.

One of them might be using the wrong radius?

There are only a few small sets I played with in my childhood that are not already in the OMR. In this thread I like to share those small sets - at the moment 1972, 6235, 6245, 6805.

1972: Go Kart of 1985
6235: Buried Treasure of 1989
6245: Harbor Sentry of 1989
6805: Astro Dasher of 1985

All files are done with LDCad 1.6c (Linux64). They should be OMR compliant and are without known issue.

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Hi
Part 52031 have following description:
Slope Brick 45 4 x 6 x 0.667 Double Curved

and part 45677
Wedge 4 x 4 x 0.667 Curved

In my opinion, both should have Wedge as description.

Johann

VW Beetle 1960 - Charlotte

   


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File is not OMR compliant
Missing stickers and the big sign.