Hey, Could anyone add Edna's hair to the parts list? Thank you in advance

In light of Cams Bricks objection to including their products in the library, which took me by surprise, I'm going to implement a change to the Third Party part policy effective immediately.

Since Third Party parts are often produced by Adult Fan of LEGO (AFOL) community members and in order to keep good community relations, the inclusion of a company's parts in the Official  Library is strictly opt in. You must obtain permission from the company prior to submitting LDraw parts of their products to the Parts Tracker. This permission must be communicated to the library admins by a company's official representative. Since this rule was put into effect after the inclusion of some Third Party parts in the Official Library, those official parts will remain unless removal is requested by a company.

I'm willing to tweak the language of this a bit. This policy and the list of companies that have authorized or refused inclusion will be found in the LDraw.org Library Policies document:
https://www.ldraw.org/pt-policies.html

I will be working to contact all the affected companies in the coming weeks.

Hi all,

A question came up about creating a nice and satisfying knolled layout for a model.
This can now be done in LDPub3D, but the output is either a PDF page or PNG images showing the knolled BOM of a model.

If we want this in an LDraw file, we could be able to do this in a LUA script in LDCad.
There are a few sample scripts that take the bricks of a model and reorder them.
I was thinking about what if we can make something like the Selection Circle script does.

I am slowly learning (self taught) LUA and am trying to modify the Selection Circle myself.
But this is complex.

Maybe a LUA wizard or programmer can shine a light on this?

The steps involved, I think, would be something like this:

1. Select all bricks in the model. This should be done in Nested mode to select all bricks in submodels too. Deleting all metacommands other then the header and bricks (for example steps, LPub commands, etc.) The result is a nice stack of all bricks in just one big model.
   
2. Next we should reset all parts to plane level. So every brick that has a rotation should be reset to default straight rotation level on the y-plane (I hope I explain this correct) and maybe put all parts at the 0,0,0, coordinate. This can already be done with the provide sample script "Copy orientation"
   
3. Then, we will want to sort the bricks based on size and color (or other order?)
   
4. Next, starting with the smallest brick on the 0,0,0 position, rows and columns of the other bricks should be made to get a square or rectangular shape for the layout. You should be able to set the amount of rows or columns or calculate the best ratio for your model.
   
5. After the first brick, the next should be positioned at say 20 LDU from the previous brick (distance between bricks would be 1 stud) either to form a row or column
   
6. Then the next and the next and so on until the first X amount of bricks are neatly positioned and aligned in a row or column
   
7. Then do the next row or column and so on
   
8. A collision check should be done to make sure no bricks overlap
   

Create "Brickmania Track Links" parts from scratch for LDraw Parts Library as "Third Party parts".

•  https://www.brickmania.com/brickmania-track-links/

•  https://www.reddit.com/r/brickmania/comm...or_studio/
  
• https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.p...ack-links/
  

Quote:They are based on Lego piece 3711, but designed in CAD and then transformed to Ldraw. It has fully functional connectivity for use in studio. You can find the studio and partdesigner files on my Bricksafe page. To import them into your studio custom part palette, open the .part file in PartDesigner and then export it to studio.

• https://bricksafe.com/pages/BrawnGP94/br...rack-links
  

• https://brickmaniatoys.com/2013/05/15/br...w-created/
  

• https://www.reddit.com/r/brickmania/comm...nks_ldraw/
  

Recreate "Shupp XXL Train Wheels" from scratch for Parts Library as Third Party parts.

For the "Shupp XXL Train Wheels" (https://www.shapeways.com/shops/shupp-s-...rain-stuff), there was an attempt to create LDraw parts, but its files created with a "CAD->STL->DAT" workflow (not exact LDraw way to model wheels), and this attempt files might not be included into LDraw due to many other issues:

• https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.p...load-link/
  
• https://bricktraindepot.com/resources/
  

Creator 2017 models thread.

Was this set a real LEGO set? According to ID it is "Duck".

• https://blog.prusa3d.com/wp-content/uplo...2/lego.jpg
  
• https://twitter.com/josephprusa/status/1...8273700865
  

• https://ideas.lego.com/projects/4e60af90...9e24b5ae07
  
• https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-38505/A...ickscount/
  

As part of my initiative to simplify things, I'm combining the following documents into one document and removing anything overly obvious:
https://www.ldraw.org/pt-policies.html
https://www.ldraw.org/ptfaq.html
https://www.ldraw.org/authorfaq.html
https://www.ldraw.org/reviewfaq.html

My new draft is here:
https://www.ldraw.org/draft-documents/pa...d-faq.html
https://www.ldraw.org/pt-policies.html

Let's discuss what else needs to be in here.

Years ago it was a joke that "LDraw.org opens to LEGO clone bricks":

• https://forums.ldraw.org/thread-16041-post-16046.html
  

• PT: Part Class: Third Part Parts
  

1. What is the state of Third Party parts?
   
2. May I design own LEGO-compatible part and pull it to Parts Tracker for including into Parts Library?
   
3. What is the state for including non-LEGO-compatible parts from other construction sets now?
   

I just authored draft of 2335pb024.dat part (from 3825-1 and 3833-1 sets)

• Photo of real part: https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn....pb024&in=S
  
• Sticker sheet:
  • https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic...=3825stk01
    
  • https://rebrickable.com/parts/56214/stic...et-3825-1/
    

• https://library.ldraw.org/tracker/41183
  
• https://library.ldraw.org/tracker/41182
  
• https://library.ldraw.org/tracker/41185
  
• https://library.ldraw.org/tracker/41184