The LDraw.org Steering Committee is pleased to announce that the 2017 James Jessiman Memorial Award (JJMA) recipient is LDraw Parts Library Administrator Chris Dee.

There was no discussion over the recipient for the this year's James Jessiman Memorial Award and the SteerCo reached consensus immediately.
Chris discovered LDraw in 1997 or 1998 after abandoning a similar project to build a LEGO parts library in PostScript. The initial motivation was to create replacement instructions for second-hand sets he had acquired, and to produce instructions for the alternative models - this was in the days before the existence of internet resources like PICSL and its predecessors. Frustrated at the very first hurdle by the omission of part 4080 (Tipper Bucket 4 x 6) he set about authoring it and was amazed to see it released in the 1998-03 update. More parts followed, and circumstances found Chris concentrating on the patterned minifig torsos, which had largely been overlooked at that time. The intellectual challenge of part authoring and the then lack of functionally rich model creation tools (like MLCad) overtook the instruction creation idea. He soon installed Steve Bliss' LDraw Add-On program (LDAO) and with L3Lab as a renderer found an efficient toolset for part authoring - a combination he still favours today. Appointment as the a second LDraw Library Admin followed in 2003.
Beside the regular library updates Chris had the enormous task to standardises the headers of more than 3300 files with the primary purpose of aligning the library with the Contributor Agreement back in 2008.

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

I've been reworking the vintage garage door 822 and 823. There have already been one prior atempt to do this, but it wasn't going all the way and in my view, not correct. Using subfiles to create a two coloured assembly.

Here is my suggestion:

   

However, I have some questions to the allknowing community.

• I want to renumber some of the existing subfiles. OK?
  
• Should I "hide" all the Doors and Counterweights using a tilde, ~ in the beginning of their descriptions?
  
• I want to use the Move to-files and give the new assemblies a better origin, in the rotation point of the hinges. OK?
  
• Does my door 822c.dat exist in real life? I can't find any pictures of it.
  
• What type of door is used in the assembly using the Counterweights with Dual Pins? With or without a rear cross?
  
• Is it correct that Bricklink part BB300 is used on both sides in some parts? I think it isn't. I think I can see left/right sided versions, without hingepin, in these assemblies.
  
• Bricklink seems to suggest an all solid part, 823cl, but its not placed in any set number. Does it exist?
  

Is there a stud that is sort of the inverse of 87087.dat "Brick 1 x 1 with stud on 1 side"? I.e. a stud that has a socket instead of a stud, but in the same location? Brick 1 x 2 or Brick 1 x 4 versions would be okay too.

Thanks.

Is it possible to apply the same rotations on more than one part at the same time? E.g. rotate each part around the y axis by 90 degrees for instance, but not around a common center but around each part locally. Can this be done in MLCAD?

Hi,
i started learn LPUB3D. I have request to advanced users. Can you spare your time to make LDraw file after import to LPUB3D look so much close as instruction in attachment ?

Best wishes

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I've finally decided to tackle this bad boy for real. I'm posting this thread in part to post progress on the part and in part to ask for numbers. I generally get the numbers provided on a silver platter, but this is not the case.

So far, the housing is coming up and the trigger has been modeled.

The part is an assembly of 5 parts:

• the black housing, this has the number 60932 imprinted
  
• the silver magazine, this has the number 60931 imprinted
  
• the silver trigger, number unknown, model 100% complete
  
• the spring, number unknown
  
• the red circular gizmo that supports the balls against the spring, number unknown
  

• 62233-f1.dat, with the spring relaxed
  
• 62233-f2.dat, with the spring contracted
  
• 62233c01.dat, shortcut with 62233-f2.dat with 4 balls.
  

After a crazy end of 2016 and the rest of 2017 I have a lot to be thankful for. Bear with me, my free time is starting to increase and I have many plans in store for the website. Thank you for bringing positivity every day and making my job easy. Here’s wishing everyone in the LDraw community a Merry Christmas or Happy Hanukkah and a very Happy New Year.

Couple of questions about LDCad.

* How do I add a part or submodel that is located in the same directory (or some arbitrary directory) as the model I am working on? I can't figure out which menu option does this. Thanks.
* How do I bandbox select multiple parts in a model using the mouse?
* How do I select a part using the mouse if the part has no triangles or quads, and only edge lines?

I just found that the LDraw library on my laptop was outdated and downloaded complete.zip to install a new one. Considering that it's a zip and how LDraw files are all textual I wondered how well 7-zip would recompress it, and pretty well it did: the 36MB complete.zip reduced to a 22MB complete.7z (with -mx=9, i.e. max compression).

Maybe we could compress the complete library archive with 7zip and save bandwidth?

Since we talked about tribal knowledge: I wasn't aware of s\3626bs05.dat - Minifig Head - Half Front Face Optional Lines and it would have helped enormously when working on the western heads. The same goes for the torso subparts.

But there is more: s\45407s01.dat - Wedge  4 x  4 with  1 x  4 Side Plates - Peghole Tube Elbow is used in more than 45407.

I think the main problem is that we do not have a chart for these parts as we have for the http://www.ldraw.org/library/primref/

I propose to convert these useful subparts to primitives.

w.