The LDraw.org Steering Committee is pleased to announce that the 2018 James Jessiman Memorial Award (JJMA) recipient is Michael ‚Mike‘ Heidemann (and I beg your pardon that the announcement comes with a 4 months delay).

Mike found LDraw while he was searching for building instructions for a set his wife had bought for his son. Since he already had a little experience with POV-Ray his interest in making some old sets in LDraw was piqued. Soon he discovered that there were some/many pieces missing from the LDraw Parts Library and he started making them himself.

He is also a passionate collector. His first complete range of LEGO sets was the ZNAP theme. Using his experience in computer programming with visual basic he also wrote some programmes which deal with LDraw files among those the ever useful DatHeader for part authors or MPDCenter for the casual user. Many more can be found on his website.

More information on the JJMA can be found at: http://www.ldraw.org/article/222.html

Willy Tschager
On behalf of the LDraw.org Steering Committee


PS On a personal note I‘d like to add that at his site you‘ll also find LDMiniAssi,  a prog he wrote exclusively for me to manage the MLCad.ini file

Hi everyone:

I noticed that part number 4180c04 is missing from the LDraw parts tracker.  On closer inspection, I found 4180c02 (Brick 2 x 4 Black with Train Wheels Small) which is a color-invariant version of the same small train wheel part.

The problem is that both Bricklink and Rebrickable don't use the color-invariant part number in their database; it is listed as a fixed-color black wheel and a separate part for the red wheel.  Consequently, a CAD tool like Studio creates a mismatch when a bill of materials is generated/validated.

I'm not sure what the best approach is to solve this problem, but I thought I would post this query here to start off.  Either a patch in the various Lego databases or a new LDraw part number with a hard-coded color seems in order.

Hello Ldraw

Looking for the new-ish Speed Champions wheel cover inserts (referencing Bricklink #'s):
29117a - the Ferrari F40 wheel with 5 wide spokes
29117b - the McLaren 720s wheel with 5 outlined floral-shape spokes

Also from the early waves:
24308b - the Corvette/Chiron wheel insert "10-spoke Y-shape"

Curious what happened with the still-unofficial 24308a. It appears to have been flagged for Certify back in 2016 but it's not made the jump into official parts. Did it get forgotten or were there issues?

Thank you,
Ryan

Suppose I have installed a wrong part in a model, how can I find and replace it the fastest?

I know which part is wrong, but I know neither the step nor the submodel where it was installed.

Johann

Request the stickers for 8448. Scan can be found here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]

A thread for Technic models released in 1999

Hi all,

Why do we call part 33909 "Tile 2x2 with studs on edge", while LEGO calls this a Plate 2x2 (with reduced knobs).

Same goes for 92593 which we do call a Plate (1x4 with two studs) and so does LEGO (Plate 1X4 W. 2 Knobs).

Shouldn't we describe 33909 as Plate too? I.g. "Plate 2x2 with Two studs on edge"?

Or change the description of 92593 to "Tile 1x4 with one stud on each edge" or something.

I always thought of 92593 more as a tile than a plate though... my 2 cts.

[edit] Same goes for 87580. More a tile than plate IMHO, though LEGO calls this a Plate too (2X2 W 1 Knob)


What do you guys think?
I say we call 33909 a Plate too.

Jaco

Hi all,
I propose to add the following entries to LDConfig.ldr:

Hi.

I have come up with a cunning plan for those parts, so I would like to get it. 

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/cat...P=6469#T=C
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/cat...=6469a#T=C

Christian.

Hi,

Here are some photos of patterned parts from sets 41615 and 41616. Could someone work on these parts? I can provide further photos if needed.

Many thanks!

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/cat...1#T=C&C=11


https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/cat...=2#T=C&C=2


https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/cat...=1#T=C&C=1


https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/cat...=3#T=C&C=3


https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/cat...5#T=C&C=85


https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/cat...=2#T=C&C=2