I'm new to LeoCAD, and today I have rendered a few minifigures but never saved them. I wish to go back and edit them but I can't because LeoCAD can't open .3ds files. Is there a way I can convert them back to:

• .lcd
  
• .ldr
  
• .dat or
  
• .mpd
  

Hello everyone,

First off, I wasn't exactly sure in which subforum to post this, so I just placed it in general. I hope that's no problem.

Anyway, as the title already says, I wanted to talk about a website for the LDraw OMR sets. I'm the 'indexer'/'maintainer' of the huge list of user-submitted LDraw models at EuroBricks. I also was the one that started submitting LDraw files from EuroBricks onto Brickset. Due to reasons (which I won't include here now) the Brickset uploading stopped a while ago (for now at least).

And in between all of that and more, is the 'LDraw OMR'. A specification that a lot of people like, but the repository itself doesn't really exist. That's been bothering me since I started using LDraw years ago: everyone keeps talking about this 'Offical Model Repository', but it's nowhere to be found (easily at least). I'd like to change that. I was thinking about a little website which collects all those OMR files and makes it easy for the user to search for the file they'd like to download.

In fact, this morning I already made a prototype website. A little while ago I started experimenting with Python and a web-framework called Django (in my little experience, it's an amazing framework btw) and I saw this as a great oppurtunity to experiment and learn some more.

Well, prototype, it's actually already a fully working website which is just missing a bunch of features and content (and isn't hosted anywhere). As I said before, it's made in python using a framework called Django and it uses a sqllite database. It's fully functional; it has an admin-interface to add files and sets to the database. The only major feature that's missing is a search and listing of all available files. But those things are very easy to add. I just haven't done it yet.

You can view some images of what I have so far, here.

So, I was wondering what you guys think about this? Is this a good idea? Would it be better to be a standalone website or a subdomain at ldraw.org? Also, I have completely 0 experience with hosting anything, let alone a python application... Anyone who has more experience with that?

And, lastly: if this text is kind of vague or has no structure at all: I'm sorry, my writing skills were always very bad :|

Have a nice day!

There are some new features build in now and also (as always) bugfixes and changes.

New
1) Command line option /r changed to ui less version for scanning of files only and write the report to a file in "<userdocuments>\MPDCenter""
2) Command line option /c (correct) in conjunction with /r will correct the file and write it to "<userdocuments>\MPDCenter\corrected".
3) Command line option /l (library) works with both options on the library with report and correction (library will not be touched). (auf Recifier postprocessor achten-erl.)
3) If a conditional line and a line have the same values, the conditional line will be deleted.
Changes
1) Message for wrong comment lines changed.
2) Message for not corrected triangle because of colinear vertices changed.
3) If you "Save as" then the new name is written to the "Name:"-tag of the new file.
4) the application has now a new icon
5) There is no test for flat files scaled in the flat direction.
Bugfix
1) Correct colinear quad sometimes bring wrong lines.
2) Check on file name ending ...s01 or ..p01 could generate an error.
3) using of rectifier postprocessing gave wrong messages.
4) parsing of the author line improved.
5) If a subfile could not be found the boundingbox is set to all zero.
6) If the entire file will be flushed, also the picture will be flushed and the new header

You can download the tool as always from http://ldraw.heidemann.org/index.php?page=datheader

Hello all,

I've finally managed to finish beta 2.

It mainly fixes some minor and some potential very annoying things.

It also introduces some minor new features, namely:

(sub)model duplication.
New path part skin options (to better emulate LSynth behavior if wanted).
Part bin search tweaks (you can now search for e.g. 2x4 and it will find "2 x 4", "2 x 4", "3 x 2 x 4" etc).
New/updated snap info (mostly done by Philo, thanks to him for that).

If no major problems are found / reported based on this version I'm hoping to do a final 1.5 version in a couple of weeks.


As always the latest version can be found here:
http://www.melkert.net/LDCad/download

the page
http://www.ldraw.org/parts/latest-parts.html
shows the error message

Please vote on the following change to the LDraw Primitives Reference.

Update the following text from

Quote:must be given a scaling factor of 1.

Quote:must be given a non-zero scaling factor.

Hi,

You can find in attached the official model 10018 Darth Maul.

Regards

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We are aware of the problems with the Main Site. It is due to a software upgrade and will be fixed shortly.

Hello,

as promised, here is the new feature release 0.8.4
In the meantime, I prepare the migration to Java 8. Later releases will require Java 8.


You can download LPE from this page:
http://nilsschmidt1337.github.io/ldparteditor/

Changelog:

With this release you will be able to...

• ...use the new "MeshReducer" tool, to simplify generated CSG meshes.
  
• ...use a more "aggressive" T-junction-finder (can destroy the mesh geometry under some circumstances!)
  
• ...use the "Move on Line" function, to move a vertex on a line between two vertices (its a beta tool! Soon I will explain how to use this.)
  

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 LPE.
   
4. On linux/mac, you have to excecute the shell script "run.sh" to start LPE.
   

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

• Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.7
  
• OpenGL 2.1 compatible Graphics Card
  
• Operating System (32/64bit): Windows [XP; Vista; 7 or newer], Mac OS X [>=10.6], Linux [e.g. Ubuntu Linux >=10.4]
  
• CPU: Multicore-Processor e.g. Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon II (>2.0Ghz)
  
• RAM: 2.5GB
  
• Video-Memory: 512 MB
  
• Free Disk Space: 100 MB
  

• Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.8
  
• Operating System (64bit): Windows 7, Mac OS X [>=10.6], Linux [e.g. Ubuntu Linux >=10.4]
  
• CPU: Multicore-Processor with 4 cores (or more)
  
• RAM: >4 GB
  
• Video-Memory: >512 MB
  
• Free Disk Space: 512 MB
  

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