Hi all, I'm at the (GUI only for now) rendering engine building stage of LDCad 2.0 and was wondering which minimal requirements to target.

OpenGL 3.3 has a couple of handy things over 3.2 (e.g. attribute layout etc), and 4.x has even cooler stuff but support for that version seems low unless I go into the extension soup.

So I was wondering which version of OpenGL do people currently using LDCad have available, you can see this by opening any log file

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which usually can be found in: C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Roaming\LDCad\logs

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and do a search on "OpenGL" this should give you a line like:
00144 | 2017-10-03_20:06:49 | Info     | Initializing render manager | OpenGL platform information: vendor "ATI Technologies Inc." renderer "AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series" version "4.5.13431 Compatibility Profile Context 16.150.2211.0".

In this example the OpenGL version supported is 4.5


LDCad 1.x can use OpenGL as low as 1.1, but I'm not planning to go that low for LDCad 2, currently I'm thinking 3.3 or maybe 3.2 depending on the answers on this thread.

Ok, I've hadn't any bug reports for awhile so I'm releasing the 1.6a version.

It's mainly a maintenance version but as there won't be a 1.7 version it also includes a couple of minor new features, namely:

- Direct color selection by number. This is done by typing the number followed by enter while the mouse is over a color name inside any color bin. Or click that text to open a input dialog for typing the number/hex code.
- Transparent color indication inside the color bin history bar.

It also includes a couple of new templates and a handful of snapping corrections etc.


Linux note: It might be needed to delete the whole partBin location before starting the program to really fix some of the template group problems resulting from the (now fixed) dos folder seps inside dirList bin groups bug.

   

Hope it's worth the upgrade
http://www.melkert.net/LDCad/download

Please support my project that it may become an official LEGO model.  It cannot be done without all of you!

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/3c759d2d...mments_tab

A special thanks to LDraw & MLCad, without which this project would not be possible!  It has truly make LEGO limitless and the dream of LEGO dreamers a reality!

I managed to build a very smoothly operating articulated shaft (constant velocity joint) using only lego parts. See my project page at http://rcvj.reininghaus.org for details including a HD youtube video https://youtu.be/okMCTcgzmAw.

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How in mathematician way I can detect angle of rotation? From Line type 1 as simple|primitive file reference. The generic format is:

LeoCAD offers to save lcd file. I assume this is the LeoCAD format, because LDView shows parsing errors when opening this file. The file->export menu offers formats 3D Studio, Bricklink, CSV, HTML, POV-Ray, Wavefront. Please guide me how to export in LDraw format.

Hi all,

I have a model that features 2 minifig chains, one gold with 5 Links and 2 with Light Bluish Grey with 21 links.
These:


We had some discussion earlier about the short one here here https://forums.ldraw.org/thread-20396.html where Philo points out that the short one is probably better modeled by hand rather the LDCad do the curves and calculations.

The template in LDCad only has 4 links. I am unsure how to add a fifth, let alone make one of 21 links.

I'll try to model by hand, but any help there would be appreciated ;-)

Perhaps a template with both ends can be made with 5 and 21 links?
Are there any other lengths? I thought there was another available, but might be mistaken.

Perhaps add this one too, while we are at it?
https://brickset.com/parts/design-15532

Thanks!

Hi folks,

Has the wheelchair been made?
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/cat...T=S&C=86&O={"color":86}

Before uploading files to the OMR site I let mpd center check for OMR compliance and apply corrections as needed.
From time to time there is an annoying message "False - unresolved reference free", which means that the file contains unresolved references. But that's all, there is no further information given by mpd center about these unresolved references. So I struggle kind of bit, respectively fail sometimes to localize and correct these unresolved references.

Question: Is there a way to exactly find / display / determine unresolved references?

As an example you may have a look to Philos Frankie:

Hi all,

I would like to use the 322 color (medium azure).

According to here, it should be available, but it is an "unused" color in MLCAD and it shows as brownish in ldview.

What am I doing wrong?


Thanks for the help.