Update:
Thank you to all who contributed. This year's fundraiser was a success in less than 12 hours. We truly are grateful for all of our supporters.

Original post:
As some of you may know, last year we switched to our own server after 14 years of having server space donated to us by Peeron. We humbly ask our users and project contributers to help defray the server costs. In the interest of full transparency, here are the details:

Server host: Dreamhost
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We are asking for $345 in total and have chosen GoFundMe as the donation method. Since we do not have a registered organization and no bank account, Orion Pobursky will be handling the funds after the campaign ends. The campaign will end as soon as we reach our goal and we do not want to collect any excess.

Thank you to all those who contribute.

LDraw.org Team

https://www.gofundme.com/f/ldraworg-server-costs

When I did the Quantum Realm Explorer and rendered it, I came across the Barrel (2489) that looked awful in the rendered image.

I then made the new barrels for comparison based on the 2489 that we have in the official library.

I rendered the image and due to Prim-Subst there were gaps in my barrles, but not in the 2489 (which Stud.io took from its own library)
Examining the part then revealed that someone has changed the top Quads to Ring-Primitives...
The history section in the file still was the same as in our library.

Did you come across such edits with other parts?


BTW: Which barrel shall I upload? the one with rectangular cuts between the single staves (middle) or triangluar cuts (right one)

   

Could it be possible to color code the result of PT submit?
"1 file has been skipped due to errors." in Red
"1 file has been submitted successfully." in Green

That would help, especially for multiple submit...

Is there a way to change output resolution of LPub3D to generate the same building instructions with a low resolution for web usage, and high resolution for printing purpose?
Configuration -> Build instructions setup -> Project setup -> resolution almost does the trick but completely changes the layout because font and image sizes are changed too!

Hi,

Is anyone here currently authoring or intend to author the following baseplates?

http://peeron.com/inv/parts/2552px3
http://peeron.com/inv/parts/2552px4
http://peeron.com/inv/parts/6024px2
http://peeron.com/inv/parts/2359px3


I've only recently submitted my first part and all the parts I've done via LDraw I do manually and, as you can imagine, is very time consuming.  For those experienced in designing official parts, is there a more efficient way to author elaborate parts such as these (with heavy detail), such as 3D scanners or some other software?  Thanks.

hej,

would it be possible to add 1 more column to this page
https://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/tracker/myreviews.cgi
?

It would be nice to see the text of the review.

This would facilitate the task "check my old hold votes from many months ago"
a lot.

The 2019-01 LDraw Parts Update has been now been released. This adds 667 new files to the core library, including 498 new parts and 27 new primitives.

Thanks are of course due to all the part authors who created or corrected parts for this release. The small, but dedicated, band of 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 2019-01 here, and 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.


There is an impressive level of enthusiasm surrounding LDraw at present and this is reflected by the large number of files on the Parts Tracker which, prior to this update, stood at an all time high of 4640. Whilst this reflects the effort that is going into creating new parts, and the increase in active authors, it also hides a significant number of 'problem' files which fail to meet our standards. As a reminder, if these have remained untouched by the original author for three months, they are considered 'fair game' for any author to correct.

Although I have posted quite a lot of admin certifications over the past few weeks, there is still a backlog which I am addressing. I hope that my prioritising this Parts Update over further admin certifications is welcome. I am still hoping to get back to a two monthly update cycle and with the current level of authoring and reviewing activity, I am optimistic that the next Parts Update can be issued towards the end of August.

Hello all,

Opening this thread because of a debate we have with Magnus on the PT for the part I submitted 6126972a.dat and the color I used.

I went with Ldraw Medium Dark Flesh (84) because having the part and its sticker in front of me this looked like the best color. However, Magnus rightly reported that this part is Lego Medium Nougat which corresponds to Ldraw Dark Flesh (86).

The reason I open this thread is that I believe the hex code for the Dark Flesh is too dark when compared to other websites and also my part. Here is a color comparison between Ldraw, Brickset, Bricklink, and the color I took from a photo of my part:

   

The comparison was based on the color links done by Brickset: https://brickset.com/parts/colour-Medium-Nougat

Then I went further and compared other colors from the same "family" and noticed the Lego Dark Orange is linked to two different colors in Ldraw LDConfig.ldr maybe there is a good reason for this but I was not able to find it after looking on the forums. Here is a larger color comparison:


  WjN10A8.png (Size: 69.52 KB / Downloads: 128)

Also, I found out on https://rebrickable.com/colors/ that Ldraw Medium Dark Flesh (84) is linked to Lego Medium Nougat which for me looks more logical when compared with other websites.

What do you think?

Yikes. Hopefully everyone has access to AC. 

   

I decided to release LDCad 1.6c early 

I was planning on some more scripting examples and maybe a new animation but unfortunately I can't seem to find the time needed at the moment.

Also the 1.6c version has been long overdue

This version includes mostly (minor) bug fixes and some tweaks to existing behavior.

It also includes some new stuff, namely:

• File cleanup templates
  
• Part bin export
  
• Scripting api extensions (I also decided to open up the lua 'io' module.
  
• Some new scripted macros including some MLCad 'HIDE' tools.
  
• New, 1802, templates, also tweaks some existing ones to be more consistent with their static counter parts.
  
• Snap and mirror info for, most of, the 1802 library.