At long last, LDView 4.2 is available. I'm going to be honest here, and warn that I gave up on getting it out the door with all the bugs fixed that I could fix. I decided that having it released was more important than fixing all the known problems. I believe that it is better than either 4.1 or 4.2 Beta 1. Having said that, if you have problems with this release, you'll probably have to go back to one of the earlier releases, because this is likely to be the last release I make. (Anyone who wants to take over is welcome to contact me.)

You can download this release from the LDView Downloads page.
The Change History is here.
The main LDView page is here.

Hi,

a few days ago I utilised my CAD program for a very different job :)
It is still WIP... Unfortunately, my time is limited for this kind of 3D modelling...
I will use LDView to convert the *.dat file to *.3ds and then blender for smoothing, UV mapping and animation.


   

Hi Trevor,

I'm selecting the menu option "Configuration/Generage Fade Colour Parts List" (yes "Generage" - a typo I suspect). After a long time, just aster displaying the message "Writing Colour Part List" in the LPub3D window status line, I am seeing LPub3D crashing. Refer to the attached screenshot.

Any suggestions as to what might be causing the problem?

Regards,

David

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You'll find the latest release discussion in this forum thread.

Hi all,

I've released LDCad 1.6 Alpha 3.

Quite a few bugfixes and general tweak/changes in this one.

But it also introduces some (hopefully handy) new features, like:

- Selection MPD embedding.
- Selection MPD detachment.
- Full LDraw org header editing (Including full history and help).
- LPub, LSynth, MLCad meta are recognized and highlighted / editable in the source window.

It also vastly improves the new region selection feature, it is actually usable now

And I finally got to include a 64 bit Windows version as the mingw-64 now includes a suitable threading model for use with my static linkage setup.

I'm not sure if and how I will include the 64 bit version in the installer though, any thoughts on that are welcome.

This is still an Alpha version so it might be (very) unstable use it separate from your normal LDCad installation and make backups of the files you want to edit.

Download it here:
http://www.melkert.net/LDCad/nextVer

I again only made the 64 bit Linux version as the 32 bit VM is currently (way) out of date. Nobody seems to need the 32 bit version anyway but if you really do need it please let me know.

Any feedback / thoughts / suggestions are welcome.

ps: Fun fact I've passed the 1000 commits mark in svn

Hi all.

Following the changes in the Sticker Specs discussed in this thread we now need to deside how to change the round 3D primitives without conditional lines. Most of them are now obsolete.

Currently available primitives - without conditional lines :
Regular resolution (n-fcyli2) : 3-16, 1-4, 5-16, 2-4, 3-8, 4-4
High resolution (n-fcyli2) : 1-4, 2-4, 5-8, 4-4

Currently available primitives - without conditional lines:
Regular resolution (n-fcylc2) : 1-4, 4-4
High resolution (n-fcylc2) : 4-4

Should all of these simply become Move to-files?
Or should we add condlines to all of them?

nb.
The info on the prim ref page is not correct. There is no 48\5-8cyli2.dat

Hey :)

this month I am a little bit late, but anyway.... I found and fixed a lot more bugs!  0.8.16 has new features, too.


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

Changelog:
(3 new features and 14 bug fixes)

With this release you will be able to...

• ...benefit from automatically deselection of a construction tool (create quad/line/triangle...), if you select a modification tool (select/move/rotate etc...)
  
• ....use a shortkey to move the manipulator to the selection center (the "A" key)
  
• ...use linear interpolation for a complete vertex selection with the "Move On Line" feature
  

1. Invalid parsing of 0 BFC INVERTNEXT (the parser implementation was wrong)
   
2. "Conditional Control Point Vertices" caused flickering on multiple views.
   
3. The behavior of automatically selecting as well the neighboring line when clicking in the line numbers bar was incorrect.
   
4. Flipping two triangles was only possible with a different triangle colour than colour 16.
   
5. While are able to select a surface by clicking on it, even if only a small portion is visible, you were able to select only lines/condlines if BOTH end vertices were visible.
   
6. Rounding issues (NullPointerException)
   
7. Helper function issues with vertices and their relationship to LDraw data (NullPointerException)
   
8. "Hide & Show" issues (NullPointerException)
   
9. Clipboard issues (NullPointerException)
   
10. Colour change issues (NullPointerException)
    
11. Cut and delete issues (NullPointerException)
    
12. The subfile compiler meta command (" 0 !LPE INLINE") created sometimes a new virtual part file, but it did not remove the old one!
    
13. There was a synchronisation bug regarding the 3D manipulator.
    
14. When you mirrored a selection, the winding of triangle/quads was correctly inverted. But primitives in selection were not BFC inverted!
    

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/mac, 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/mac, you have to excecute the shell script "update.sh".
   

• Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.8
  
• 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: 4GB
  
• Video-Memory: 512 MB
  
• Free Disk Space: 100 MB
  

• 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: >=1 GB
  
• Free Disk Space: 512 MB
  

I'm brand new to LDraw and I'm confused before I got started.  I successfully downloaded and installed the two files noted on the home page.  When I clicked on the installed shortcut I found several files but nothing that I could run or open.  Obviously I'm missing something, can someone tell me what it is you need to do to access the LD program?
Thanks,
Peter

Hi Trevor,

I'm encountering unexpected behaviour where the fading is not being applied to step 2 but it is applied from step 3 onwards. If you take a look at this PDF, you will see that wherever a step 2 occurs (e.g. within a sub-assembly, a callout), the prior parts have not been faded. For steps 3 onwards it applies the fading as expected. I've attached the LDraw mpd file used to create the PDF to this thread.

Do you encounter similar behaviour for this LDraw file?

Regards,

David

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  zigzag stairs.mpd (Size: 22.97 KB / Downloads: 4)

I've installed LPub3D version 2.0.2.721.2_20160624) and I'm attempting to generate a PDF. The PDF that is generated is empty. The behaviour I am encountering is;
(a) after trying to generate every page, it displays a dialog window titled "LPub3D" containing the message "Failed to create CSI".
(b) said dialog window is actually hidden under the "Print pdf" dialog window. You can't ALT-TAB to the dialog window in (a) nor can you actually see it unless you cunningly move the "Print pdf" dialog window. I say "cunning" because there is a limited time window when you can move the "Print pdf" window. Once dialog window (a) is displayed, it is too late to move dialog window (b). But, unfortunately, dialog window (a) is displayed underneath dialog window (b) and can't actually be seen!

I've attached a screenshot to try to illustrate what is occurring.

   

Two questions;
a) any suggestions as to what might be causing the "Failed to create CSI" dialog window and
b) can you somehow make the "Failed to create CSI" dialog appear on top of the "Print pdf"dialog so at least it can be seen.

Regards,

David