I found a new theme for the forums that might be liked better by some. It's a bit less white and more grey like the old forums software.  I still have to do some modifications to it (e.g. some images are broken) but you can give it a test drive.  

- Go to User CP
- In the sidebar under "Your Profile" click "Edit Options"
- On the right under "Other Options" change "Board Style" to "stb"
- Click Update Options

Please let me know what you think and if you notice any broken images which seems to be the biggest issue right now.

Has anyone taken a crack at making the #16477 Windscreen 16 x 8 x 6 Curved with 3 Pin Holes? 

Bricklink.com #16477 Windscreen

Guys,

is this:

www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=973pb0926



a bigger (mirrored) version of the dragon pattern used on this torso:

www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=973pb1200



If so, who could make me a shot with a 20 megapixels camera of the golden dragon?

w.

How come only color 16 shows up when an LDraw file has been exported to STL using LDView? All other colors go invisible. Is that intentional? (The data is still there though, since the STL file is good for the 3D pinter anyway).

And no, it's not a BFC issue; all I have to do is change the color to 16 and it shows the surface again.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5oxvdy4qrks5xww/LDView_STL_Export.jpg

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I'm interested to understand the licensing arrangement for the LGEO library, especially as this is different to the LDraw library

The statement at the top of each of the LGEO inc files says:
"It is provided for private non-commercial use only."

I'm curious to understand this limitation, as the majority of the LDraw parts are released under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence 2.0 which allows commercial use.

Is Lutz Uhlmann still the primary maintainer of this library? What are the options for requesting a less restrictive license?

BTW: I noticed that the main reference on the LDraw website to the LGEO library is currently a dead link:
http://www.digitalbricks.org/lgeo.html

How do the parts created by Darats relate to the original LGEO library? Could these potentially be re-released under a different license?

I'm also curious to know why I keep spelling licence differently every other sentence

Hi folks,

I just updated the MLCad.ini file accordingly to the latest LDraw.org parts update 2016-01. The .ini file defines (among other things) the parts available in MLCad's minifigure generator.

Download the file from my website: http://www.holly-wood.it/mlcad/mlcad_ini-en.html

Bye, w.

I'm looking for an LDraw version of this part: http://picclick.com.au/Lego-batman-slope...86812.html


I found this part (973pb0a.dat) that has the Batman logo, but how do I extract just the Batman logo from the dat file (I was thinking I could just create a sticker part and lay it on top of the slope brick).

I also found this sticker part (4297014a.dat), but the logo is to big for the slope brick - is there a way to easily scale this logo to make it smaller?

What's the best tool for selecting/extracting certain parts of an existing part file? (other than Notepad++)

Happy new year everyone! I'll try to actually make a part this year.

The 2016-01 LDraw Parts Update has been now been released. This adds 572 new files to the core library, including 475 new parts and 43 new primitives. This update also includes updated versions of the colour configuration files (LDConfig.ldr and LDCfgalt.ldr) thanks to enthusiasm of Sven v. Beuningen and the co-ordination of Willy Tschager and Magnus Forsberg.

Thanks are of course due to all the part authors who created or corrected parts for this release, including several first-time authors. The 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 2016-01 here, 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.

Please accept my apology for this being the only parts update of 2016. Increased free time, in semi-retirement, should allow me to  restart more frequent updates in 2017.

Hello,

I would like to use the last day of this year to publish a new version of LDPE
...and I thank you very much for this award! Its my pleasure to play around with LDraw and to develop highly useful tools for
the community. I am an agile software developer. I am a big fan of extreme programming, kanban and kaizen.
LDPC and LDPE are perpetual beta versions. They will stay at the development stage for an indefinite period of time.


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

Changelog:
(3 new features and 7 bug fixes)

With this release you will be able to...

• ...choose whether or not "Merge to Nearest Edge" splits the edge on merged vertices.
  
• ...limit unrectifier to only inline rect primitives (hold Ctrl and press the unrectifier button).
  
• ...adjust the direction of the manipulator to the direction of an edge. I changed the behavior of "Move Manipulator to the Nearest Edge"!
  

1. Fixed an endless loop on the first start (affected 0.8.26 only).
   
2. Rectifier added the same edge line into two adjacent rectangle primitives.
   
3. Toggle comment / TEXMAP didn't adjust the text selection.
   
4. The new render engine is now optional. Its automatic hardware detection was broken.
   
5. When you inserted a protractor, the order of the vertex triplet was not deterministic.
   
6. Unrectifier inserted an extraneous empty lines where rects were previously.
   
7. The quick fix of "invalid use of 'BFC INVERTNEXT' / Flat subfile" only removed the BFC INVERTNEXT statement. It should also invert the direction of the flat subfile in flat direction to keep the same BFC winding.
   

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, 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, 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]
  
• 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]
  
• 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 a SSD.