OMR specification requires to include unofficial files (a very good thing!), but what to do when this unofficial part contains TEXMAP images? Can we imagine a way to include these images in MPD? How to make this compatible with applications that support TEXMAP (afaik LDView, LDCad, LeoCAD and Bricksmith)?

And a 2016 good new year's resolution: have TEXMAP images on Parts Tracker !

All models of official models should go here.

Couldn't find part 92220 anywhere so I figured I'd add it to the request list. Thanks to everyone contributing to the libraries, it's super helpful.

I like to express my happyness if I look back and see what has been done on LDraw in the past year. I think it was a great year and I like to say "Thank You" to all volunteers.
Let us go forward this way also in 2016

cu
(next year)
mikeheide

When doing the 30398 I stumbled over a strange behavior in LDView.

To conclude:
If a file uses a cone larger than 9 from the Hi-Res primitives, i.e. starting from 48\4-4con10, AND LDView is set to use Primitive Substitution, the curve is not smoothed.
However if the file uses the standard primitive, 4-4con10, the smoothing works.

Anybody noticed this as well?

This code

The 2015-02 LDraw Parts Update has been now been released. This adds 439 new files to the core library, including 218 new parts and 15 new primitives. This update includes another batch of improved and corrected parts. This is largely due to the work of Roland Melkert with the 'libfix version' of LDCad. Significant effort has also been expended by Magnus Forsberg to inline dithered colour subfiles (a now obsolete technique).

Thanks are once again due to all the part authors who created or corrected parts for this release. The reviewers also play an important role in keeping files moving through the tracker and deserve just as much credit. I am pleased to see that some attention has been paid to the backlog of parts held for further work.

You can preview the new parts in 2015-02 here, download the zip-file update or Windows install package here. Alternatively you can use the LDView menu option File | Check for Library Updates... to install the update.

The old / vintage sets should go here.

Hi all,

As the current 1.5 beta 2a version seems to be reasonably stable I decided to start work on the 1.6 version. I have a number of personal targets for this version, namely:

"must have's":

• More scripting (macro's, model generation through script etc)
  
• Allow hot key customization (this is also needed for my macro/script extension plans)
  
• Region selection (2d/3d rectangle/circle)
  
• Part bin group management / creation.
  
• MSAA LDraw rendering (this actually already works, so I might include it in the definite 1.5 version too).
  

• POVRay animation export.
  
• Blender animation export.
  

Lego star wars lightsaber of kylo ren is beautifully light up by Liteupblock

This is a bit of an odd request so bear with me.

I'm working on starting a business that would rely heavily on LDraw/MLCad. As such, I'd like to discuss some payed opportunities for part authors. Most emails here on the forums are hidden and the lack of a private message system is the reason I'm reaching out in this way.

If you are interested in finding out more about it please email me: tclites[at]gmail[dot]com

Thanks for taking time to indulge my odd request.
Tyler