It is with sadness and a heavy heart I share the news that our friend and former [color=#365899][font=system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui,]LDraw.org webmaster Jacob Sparre Andersen passed away Sunday after a brief but difficult battle with stomach cancer. He leaves behind his wife Christina and young daughter Lea.[/font][/color]
If you have memories of Jacob and would like to send condolences, please share them here. After a time I'll kindly pass them to Jacob's wife Christina, and will share additional details such as a contact address or obituary site according to her wishes.
EDIT: Funeral details from Christina:
Dear All.
The funeral of Jacob takes place on Saturday, December 22 at 13:00 (cet) in Hoersholm Church,
Hørsholm Kirke
Barakstien 2,
2970 Hørsholm
Denmark
You are very welcome, but I know that many of you do not come,.
Perhaps you can send him a loving thought or whatever you feel is right to do ..
Since Jacob has a huge circle of people, I have not had time to read and answer everyone yet. It will come.
Sincerely Christina
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[color=#1d2129][font=system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui,][font=system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui,]Here are a few thoughts and memories I wrote about Jacob yesterday upon learning the news:
It is with sadness and a heavy heart I learned that my collaborator and friend of twenty years Jacob Sparre Andersen passed away after a short battle with stomach cancer. My heart [/font][font=system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui,]goes out to his lovely wife Christina and young daughter Lea.
Jacob and I have been in touch online since the late 1990s, when we were both active in the LDraw community and the online LEGO hobby. Jacob was one of my first international collaboration partners when I was still in my teens. Our different perspectives challenged me and spurred my personal growth.
We first met in person in 2002, when I was visiting Lars C. Hassing in Aarhus, and Jacob visited for dinner. We reconnected in Copenhagen in early 2012, after I began working for LEGO. First, he took me to a favorite cafe Obelix, and later invited me to lunch at his home. We've met for drinks, new Nordic cuisine, and walked around town a handful of times since. Most recently we grabbed burgers in Christianshavn and caught up on work, life, and my recent cross-country move to California.
Favorite memories include a tour he gave me of the Niels Bohr institute (including Niels Bohr's private office), stories of the Faroe Islands, and his ideas for extreme bicycle designs; like one that generated electricity by pedaling, which would power a motor on the rear hub through a wire instead of using a chain, just because it was possible. He got such a kick out of the idea. I'll miss meeting him for a bite and our talks about LEGO, bicycles, physics, politics, places in the world he's lived, and his work engineering complex systems. I'll remember him as kind, fair, consistent, ethical, caring, creative, passionate, interested in the world, and therefore interesting to be around.
Attached is a photo I took of Jacob at lunch in September, because I was laughing at the irony of his sweater. He said his daughter Lea got it for him, because she liked the bird. I remember how much he loved his daughter. Every time we met, he was so proud to talk about what they were building with LEGO or something she was into, like the sweater. As much as I will miss my friend, I cannot imagine the loss Christina and Lea are feeling now, and I keep them in my thoughts.[/font][/font][/color]
Work has begun on changing the main site theme. Right now I'm focusing on cleaning up and consolidating the code. Later I will rearrange the page elements. The end goal is to have a unified look across all LDraw websites. The main site is first since its the easiest to change. The forum will most likely be the last since the templating engine will change with MyBB 1.9 and I don't really want to duplicate effort.
If you are a website expert or otherwise, I want to hear from you. Now is the time to make suggestions, desires, ideas known. If possible, show me an example of what you mean. If there's a site you really like, let me know and I can try to incorporate the elements of the design that work well.
Hey guys! I'm new here! I am a former stop motion maker and I have plans to make Lego films in auto desk's Maya. I haven't seen any new Star Wars episode 7 and 8 material (yes, I can understand why) but I have a really funny script I want to use to kick off my channel. If any of you guys would like to help make a Kylo Ren helmet (Part 6124603) that would really help me out! I would make it in Maya but I'd like it to be more to scale so I figured I'd ask. If the helmet is too much, if anyone would like to do just his face and maybe torso? That would also be amazing. I would only need it in a few months, no deadline, I can make other films while waiting anyways. Thanks guys!
I have created several huge models (10,000+ bricks) using Lego Digital Designer. I have converted those files to .ldr files and can open them individually in LDraw.
Here is where i need help. I want to combine many of these HUGE models into one Epic File. In case you are wondering, i am creating a model of our hometown and am building the sections in Lego Digital Designer. However LDD will not allow me to have more than one of these behemoths in one file. it will crash if i try to combine.
that is where i am hoping LDraw can Help me out. IS THIS POSSIBLE?
If so would someone be willing to walk me through the process. I have tried for several hours on my own but i am new to the LDraw and and unable to fine the magic command. I think it has something to do with sub-models but have not been able to import my existing models as a sub-model in a .mpd file
I will offer a $25 reward via PayPal for help with this. Awarded to the person with the clearest instructions.
i have attached two of my large sections as attachements in case you where wondering what i am working with.
Hi guys
And the next question:
According to 'LDraw.org Standards: Official Model Repository (OMR) Specification Version 1.0.3', each OMR compliant file consists of several .ldr files nested within a .mpd file.
What if the model is just a .ldr file.
Does the single .ldr file have to be nested into a .mpd file? --> like the attached .mpd file
Or may the single .ldr file be uploaded?
If the .ldr file is allowed to be taken, how must the header look like?
Does the header have to start according to the .ldr specification with 0 FILE .... ( like the attached .ldr file)
or is it allowed to be built like a .mpd?
The 2018-02 LDraw Parts Update has been now been released. This adds 1019 new files to the core library, including 540 new parts and 21 new primitives.
Thanks are of course due to all the part authors who created or corrected parts for this release. 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 2018-02 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.
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