I draw and build a lot of cylindrical structures. The builds turn out good but the drawings are not worth much (IMHO). The cylinders are always made up of two brick segments, a 1x2 brick followed by a 1 round brick, with the second and subsequent rows off set by 1 brick. Pretty standard approach.

I would like to programmatically ( spreadsheet ) develop an LDraw file that has better resolution than I can obtain by tweaking individual bricks in a drawing.

Am studying files that I downloaded of small walls both straight and the same wall curved by a specific number of degrees per segment and am working on how the coordinates are computed. Not as straight forward as I had expected.

I am not a math person so the translation matrices throw me. I was hoping that I could find a way that I could calculate the various values for each row. I was wondering if there was an explanation somewhere of how the translation is done. The actual trig would be wonderful.

One other thing,that I was not able to find, was where do the coordinates refer to. The geometric center of the brick? or someplace else.

It looks like there is no spacing between bricks in the computations. Is that correct?

Any help would be appreciated. If anyone else has tried this please let me know. If this is a Don Quixote situation also let me know.
Thanx,
Ed

Shall we create a new Category for the Hero Factory parts:

https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn....93575&in=S

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I've requested (not yet approved) to have a LDraw MOC display at an upcoming AFOL convention. As such, I'd like to get as many images and models file as I can to showcase the efforts of our community at future fan events.

The rules for submission are:
- Must be public display appropriate
- Images must of a resolution that displays well on a 1080p monitor
- Videos are allowed subject to the above rules
- Pre-rendered images are desired but LDR files will be accepted.
- Author's real name (pen names are allowed) and email must be provided (can be done via PM).

Please post submissions to this thread or via PM.

Please create a new topic for discussion of the rules or other items.

Hi,

The release candidate of the AIOI 2019-01 can be downloaded here:

http://www.holly-wood.it/tmp/LDraw_AIOI_...bit_v1.exe

Change log:

* Update to Parts Library 2019-01
* Update to MLCad.ini 2019-01
* Update to LPub3D 2.3.12.0.1356
* Update to LeoCAD 19-01
* Update to Offline Parts Catalog 2019-01
* Update to LDCad 1.6 beta 1c

Your testing would be appreciated.

This will be the last 32bit version. The next installer will 64bit with possibly stripping the current 32bit programs like MLCad, LSynth, LDFind, ... and shipping them in a separate 32bit installer.

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What style is preferred:

Fullscreen:
https://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.c...85p204.dat

or

Fullscreen overlay:
https://www.ldraw.org/hidden-content/pt-...-test.html

or 

something else.

Hello everyone,

On the good advice of Philo, I have started to test the new renderer of Lpub3D 2.3.12 and in deed, it is very fast comparing to ldview.

Therefore I have started to work on a new model using this one.

But I have a problem regarding the size of the model, size of the callout and the pli. I have noticed that the scale is not longer use and is replace now by fov camera and distance camera) but I do not understand how to work with it properly.

For my example, I have set :

• Fov assembly : 20
  
• Distance : -270 
  
• Native factor : -270 (I have found a topic by Trevor which explain that -270 is A4 scale =1)
  
• Fov pli : 30 (I want the part a bit smaller)
  
• Distance pli : -270
  

Is there any way to increase the number of views for the parts bin in LDCAD? There are currently six views but I could do with more! I tend to find I have 3 or 4 set to some fairly common categories (technic, plates, bricks, tiles) but then use the other two for everything else (e.g. slopes, brackets, hinges, search, model content). I'd love to be able to increase the number of available views to "N" and have the tabs (circled in the image below) appropriately arranged in multiple rows.



Regards,

David

Hey guys, I'm pretty desperately in search of a .dat file for the part 28551 or 28768. As the title mentions, it's used as the Joker's hair for Lego Batman Movie sets and apparently a character named Pola from Nexo Knights. I even tried seeing if someone may have ripped it from Lego Dimensions, but had no such luck. If anyone could be of any help, I'd really appreciate it! https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/cat...=6#T=C&C=6

LPub 3D dosen't shows the new Parts in Partlists.

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Hi,

could anybody please post a front/side picture of



https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/cat...86pb02#T=C

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