I embarked on a Minifig Head design spree... after starting the figs from the Batman movie, I photographed around 300-400 heads in my collection. I have a pretty good workflow now with a proper template that does the projection and a template of cond-lines in LDPE to finish the file.

Nowadays most heads come in the "3626c" variant, not too long ago the main head was the"3626b" variant, however out in the wild there are also patterns that come in both "b" and "c".

Here I started to sort through the library and noticed that a few codes sport a different pattern in the "b" and "c" variant. Except for one already official (p8d), all of those are still on the PT (p02, p80, p8e, pap and pb3)

There are also designs that are the same already in the "b" and "c" variant. Here is the overview of all the numbers that exist in both variants: (yellow = official; green = on PT, seems ok; red/salmon = official/different pattern; light blue = on PT/different pattern
   

Now what do you think:

• If available in the real world, should we have a "b" and "c" variant in the Library?
  IMHO, I don't think so, as the difference is usually not visible, and it would inflate the library.
  
• Should the numbering be consistent for both variants, i.e. different patterns get a different numbers?
  In my opinion, a "3626bp8e" and a "3626cp8e" should be the same, even if it means there would be gaps in either the "c" or "b" pattern overview.
  

• The sheer number of heads, some of the allocations are not enough, e.g. Star Wars, there are several hundreds patterns, but we do have only space for 2 x 36 (r and s space)
  
• Also to verify if a pattern is already on the tracker gets difficult over time, there was already a proposal to improve the search for MF-torsi done, may be for the heads it could be an idea as well.
  

Hi

Could you please make 18675pb15

Thanks
Knud

Currently I've been using Buf3D+ on my Google Pixel 2 XL but I was curious to know if LDraw team has any plans to release a dedicated mobile client in near future.

Hi All, 

finally decided to migrate to LPub3D, but having some issues with new parts.

They appear on the rendered model, but they won't appear on the Parts list, any help will be appreciated

The part I'm missing is 25269.

my root library is my Stud.io root library, haven't had any issues with part till this one

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Hi Orion,

a favicon for the LDraw Wiki server is missing, so bookmarks etc. don't get a proper icon.

Can we copy the icon
http://www.ldraw.org/favicon.ico

to
https://wiki.ldraw.org/favicon.ico

?

Hi

I could really use the Dr. Strange Minifig sh509 from set 76108
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?M=sh509

I cant seem to find any of the parts in the library.

Kind Regards
Knud

Hello
i'm using MLCAD and LPUB3D.
Is it possible to insert the full assembled callout as you can see in the last callout step, near PLI in the first callout step like LEGO do, so you can see what are you building when you start a callout?

thanks 
regards

at the review of 15396c02.dat

http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cg...396c02.dat

a discussion started about which shortcuts should be in our library and which not.

let's continue the discussion here

I copied the comments from that part's review to here, see below:

Anyone know of a good free png editor capable of (also) editing the alpha channel.

I need to create stacks of small images for use in LDCad 2 but the transparency stuff is taking way too much time using GIMP.

In my model, I placed two instances of a submodel. Now I need tweak those instances (rotate and shift pieces along pins) to make them fit within the main model. The problem is that I need to tweak them in different ways, in a mirrored fashion to be specific. I have studied the advanced editing tutorial at http://www.melkert.net/LDCad/docs/advEdit but the nested editing is not sufficient here. Whatever changes I make in one submodel instance, have exactly the opposite effect of what is necessary in the other instance.

Is there a way to decouple submodel instances from their original so that changes in Nested mode don't affect the original or other instances? Or do you have any other ideas? The mirroring feature by the way did not help either.