Hey,

on Magnus' and Steffen's workstations the "fast triangulation" feature was not working as expected.
I corrected the implementation and now it works better on all machines.

Download and install the latest LDPatternCreator release directly from sourceforge.net.

Change log:

New features:

• Fast triangulation will now find the nearest edge not the nearest vertex pair. It is also more responsive.
  
• Auto-corrections for primitive data when loading a file
  

• Fast triangulation did not work on some machines
  
• Undo/redo with primitives broke sometimes the stored primitive data
  

Hi,

with this release I replaced the http-interface to ldraw.org (required for the download of ldconfig.ldr and parts from the tracker) with a solution which uses https.

I also provided an alternative 64-bit linux release since I had some problems with LDPE on another linux distro.


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

Changelog:
(1 new feature and 3 bug fixes)

With this release you will be able to...

• ...see some hints on the configuration screen when you are launching LDPartEditor for the first time.
  

1. The PartReview tool got broken by the introduction of HTTPS on the Parts Tracker.
   
2. The access to categories.txt and ldconfig.ldr got broken by the introduction of HTTPS on LDraw.org
   
3. The program did not really quit when the configuration screen was cancelled.
   

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.
  

Hello,

About Lpub3D bug

When I choose either Convent to callout or Assembled image to parentpage,
Next page nothing is showing on the screen!!
It would be greatly appreciated if someone could solution to this problem?

Kind regards,

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Anyone interested in offering a MOC for the Wikipedia page? The current one is too dark IMO, and I can't re-render it because the author did not link to the model file or POV-Ray source code.

Ideally, a nice radiosity render. It needs to have a compatible license, too, such as one of the Creative Commons licenses. Please also upload the actual model and POV-Ray source code somewhere people can access them (maybe github?) out of courtesy.

If no one has an alternate suggestion I will use a render of Datsville. It would show off the fact that you can create "BIG" models using LDraw, as opposed to LDD where you run into issues faster. But a radiosity render will take a lot of time. Maybe more time than I have. We'll see after I do some test renders.

Hello,

Would someone be kind enough to try to author this one : 25111 ?



It is available on digitalbricks.

Many thanks!

I’ve started a mock-up of the theming for the PT:
http://www.ldraw.org/pt-detail-mockup.html

This is a static page (i.e it won’t change based on votes, etc.)
I chose this one because the link in the comments is breaking my formatting.

I’d like feedback from the regular PT users.

If you have not seen this, you have to watch!

https://www.facebook.com/tina.kendall.26...f=mentions

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=930TWN-_6og

After seeing this in LEGO House: https://photos.app.goo.gl/bAAXaEebvrTMJfZZ6... I feeled urged to create a LDraw model!

I was too lazy to create a flexed axle template for LDCad so I used 12L rigid tubing instead, but it does the job!

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As promised, here are minutes from the informal discussions during the Billund meeting. Per our bylaws, in person meetings are always informal and no policy can be formally determined. Discussion on some of these topics has already begun here on the forum. If you see a topic that you wish to discuss further, please start a new thread in the appropriate forum.

Wiki
 - Shift stuff that changes (like tutorials and third part software) to the wiki
 - Re-enable account requests to cut down on wiki spam (this is done)
 - The wiki is easy to edit for a reason. IF you find a topic that need work, edit it. We can always revert if it doesn't work. Be bold

LDraw.xml (for LDD)
 - Contact Silvan to mirror ldraw.xml on ldraw.org. Make is process automated

Forums
 - Make more moderators (this is done)

Main site
 - Change news to a "give back" (this is done)
 - Fix the images on the front page
 - Move tutorials to wiki

PT
 - The held part backlog is a concern
 - Periodically have a "held parts" week where those who want to will focus on held parts
 - Shorten the time between a hold and when a part is open to everyone to edit to 3 weeks (instead of 3 months)
 - More clearly delineate when someone can become a part reviewer
 - Have a header edit admin and a parts release admin (could be the same person) to alleviate the amount of things Chris is responsible for.
 - Have an online parts validator (Santeri has this mostly complete)
 - Online multi word part search of both the PT and official library (this can probably be done from within the main site CMS)
 - Part review tutorial/checklist
 - What should cause a hold/warning?

Org
 - Make plaques for the JJMA recipients who didn't get one (either ask Tim Courtney for design or take an existing plaque to a shop)

I may have left some stuff out. The others who were there can chime in. As a reminder, please start a separate thread for things you may wish to discuss.

Guys as you know there are several missing patterns, to coordinate the effort and make it more useful the work we do.


I noticed that when you look a brick like 3010 on rebricable it says the amount of sets that its being used with its pattern. As an example, Some patterns are used in 1set other like in 10

So i was thinking in asking them to send us a list of the most used bricks with patterns and if they are listed or not at ldraw .

Benefits.
1 we will know which bricks patterns are missing
2 we will be willing on the most used patterns and not on a single brick that was only used at 1980 in 1 set.
3 save time will looking what to draw and dont re make a pattern that was all ready on the ldraw gallery.

This can be done by hand but it's a hard work, as rebricable or otger sites has this information on their db may be easy for them to send us the list.

This also can be extended for the bricks minifgs, 3d objects that are not yet available at ldraw.



File example
Brick number; amount of set, ldraw available?,brick descrption, url on the site.... Etc

Probably some of you may know the owners of those sites they may be able to help.