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Hi,

a new month starts with a new version!


As always, you can download LDPE from this page:
http://nilsschmidt1337.github.io/ldparteditor/

Changelog:
(7 new features and 2 bug fixes)

With this release you will be able to...

• ...use a tool that creates a vertex on line intersection.
  
• ...use a "Create Copy" button for the transformation tools (translate / rotate / scale selection / set X,Y,Z)
  
• ...see the manipulator while using the transformation tools (translate / rotate / scale selection / set X,Y,Z)
  
• ...set the translation to the manipulator position (translate selection)
  
• ...use "Set x/y/z" to set the origin of subfiles and primitives to x/y/z
  
• ...benefit from the fact that colour changes to the main colour are updated after leaving the options menu.
  
• ...benefit from the fact that the dialog for local rotation and scale transformations now initialises the pivot point with the manipulator position.
  

1. "Moved to" reference resolve function for subfiles, 8- and 48-primitives was incorrect.
   
2. "More Colours..." did not work after the colour palette was reloaded.
   

1. Download the zip-Archive
   
2. Extract the archive content to the location of your choice
   
3. On windows, double-click "run.bat" to start LDPE.
   
4. On linux, you have to excecute the shell script "run.sh" to start LDPE.
   

1. On windows, double-click "update.bat" to search for updates.
   
2. On linux, you have to excecute the shell script "update.sh".
   

• 64-bit Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.8
  
• OpenGL 2.1 compatible Graphics Card
  
• Operating System (64-bit): Windows [7 or newer], Linux [e.g. Ubuntu Linux >=14.4]
  
• CPU: Multicore-Processor e.g. Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon II (>2.0Ghz)
  
• RAM: 4GB
  
• Video-Memory: 1 GB
  
• Free Disk Space: 100 MB
  

• Operating System (64bit): Windows 7,8,10, Linux [e.g. Ubuntu Linux >=14.4]
  
• OpenGL 3.3 compatible Graphics Card
  
• CPU: Multicore-Processor with 4 cores (or more)
  
• RAM: >4 GB
  
• Video-Memory: >1 GB
  
• Free Disk Space: 512 MB
  
• For a faster start, LDPartEditor and the LDraw™ library should be installed on a SSD.
  

Since we had only 5 confirmed nominees, no election is necessary

Therefore, the 2017/2018 LDraw.org Steering Committee [1] is:


Philippe Hurbain
Roland Melkert
Orion Pobursky
Max Martin Richter
Willy Tschager



[1] Try not to confuse the LDraw.org Steering Committee (SteerCo) with the LDraw.org Standards Board (LSB). The Steering Committee sets the course for the LDraw Organization while the Standards Board deals with the LDraw File Format.

Congratulations to the reconfirmed and new members!

Max Martin Richter
On behalf of the LDraw.org Steering Committee

With the completion of the 8860 animation I think the latest build of LDCad is good enough to be the Beta 2 release.

It includes numerous bugfixes, some minor tweaks and extensions. Most of the extensions are the direct result of me working on the 8860 animation and thus mainly oriented on scripting and animation playback.

http://www.melkert.net/LDCad/download

It also includes the backbone framework aniTools.lua, as used in the 8860 animation. So maybe others want to give animation a try too

This should be the last beta of 1.6 , so I don't plan to make any big changes anymore before releasing the final 1.6 version.

I'm going to concentrate on updating the documentation for now.

Any suggestions for the next major version (ether 1.7 or 2.0, not sure yet) are welcome though.

I finally completed my most complicated LDCad animation to date

It is a fully animated 8860 LEGO technic 'super car' set.

You can watch it here (2:15 long).

https://youtu.be/Ea1iHCSPbqo

It is an OpenGL export, I was originally planning to do a POV-Ray rendering (I've got the POV file) but it would take over 200 hours to render as it would need very high radiosity settings to prevent background flickering.

This would result in 3750 frames of this quality:



If anyone know of a way to reduce that flickering without having to crank the radiosity settings to 11 please let me know.

I just found this very interesting article about
LEGO's arch part redesigns:

http://www.newelementary.com/2014/03/you...-arch.html

After making the 27255 hexagonal (with triangular symmetry) plate, I couldn't resist...

Attached Files

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  polyhedra.mpd (Size: 22 KB / Downloads: 7)
  rhombicuboctaedron.mpd (Size: 17.8 KB / Downloads: 5)

Figure parts:



19201pb01


19206pb01


19833


19832


FTFpb066c01


FTFpb099c01


FTFpb065c01


20377c00pb01

Stickers:


41073stk01a


41172stk01

Other parts:


19118


18970


sailbb59

Would an web based part/model checker in the vein of DATHeader be useful to anyone?

I recently came across an old project of mine for parsing LDraw code (in PHP). It seems it would be fairly straightforward to put it on the website somewhere and add some validation code.

Greetings,

I would like to get the temperature of resistance to deprecating L3P focusing new development around POV-Ray file generation using LDView ? 


L3P source is not publicly available; therefore, it is not possible to maintain or enhance going forward. On the other hand, LDView, 4.3 will provide every bit of functionality and flexibility currently available from the L3P module. So focusing my enhancements on the LDView/LPub3D integration, I believe, will be time and effort better spent.

The L3P integration code will be removed, if and after a decision is taken, at a future point in time to be determined.

Please let me know if you have any objections to this road-map direction. I will consider the poll closed and take a decision in approx 3 weeks from the date of this post.

Cheers,