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  LDView 4.7 Released
Posted by: Travis Cobbs - 2026-02-24, 4:03 - Forum: LDraw Editors and Viewers - Replies (2)

LDView 4.7 is now available.

You can download this release from the LDView Downloads Page.

You can see the Change History here.

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  Part request for Set 42055-B
Posted by: Alfred Schmitz - 2026-02-22, 15:10 - Forum: Part Requests - Replies (7)

Hello everyone!

After completing set 42055-A some time ago, I started working on set 42055-B and
noticed that I could only modify part 24121d02.dat in this model.

I then tried to create part 24121d03.dat, but failed when mirroring
sticker 6155286wc01.dat.

.dat   24121d03.dat (Size: 602 bytes / Downloads: 3)
   


Would anyone be willing and able to complete this part and submit it to Parts Pracker?

Best regards, Alfred

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  Dropping Frame Rate when MPD View is open in Part Bin
Posted by: Gerald Lasser - 2026-02-21, 23:16 - Forum: LDraw Editors and Viewers - Replies (5)

I had an intermittent issue with LDCad where i experienced an incredible drop in the frame rate, down to 1 fps from a 20 fps rendering.

This is with a file of 25.000 parts, many of them technic beams. I first thohought that the increased accuracy of the npegholes contributed to this effect, but now I found the real reason.

I use a number fo subfiles in this MPD and whenever I switch to the MPD view, because I need a file or want to select one and I stayed there, the framerate was very sluggish.

switching back ti a "normal" parts bin e.g.used parts or "brick"increased the frame rate massively.


Are you rendering the content of the small tiles inthe MPD view kind of real time? would there be a way to avoid this behaviour?

thansk

Gerald

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  LDCad 1.7 Beta 2a (win+linux)
Posted by: Roland Melkert - 2026-02-21, 20:13 - Forum: LDraw Editors and Viewers - No Replies

Someone reported a semi severe bug in beta 2 concerning file reloading.

This version will fix that and a couple of other minor issues reported so far.

No new features though.

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As always you can get the latest version at:
https://www.melkert.net/LDCad/download

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Star [LDPE] 1.9.01 Released ('Java 25' / rounding bug-fix on text editor UI)
Posted by: Nils Schmidt - 2026-02-20, 17:34 - Forum: Parts Author Tools - Replies (2)

Hey,

this release 1.9.01 updates the Java version from 21 to 25 (LDPE runs on its own Java Virtual Machine, you don't need to install Java).
It should improve the performance a little bit and also fixes one rare "text editor UI update" bug in combination with rounding.

This version will also reset the editor size of the GUI because I needed to change the format which is used to store this information internally.
The config file for version 1.9 is not compatible with version 1.8.

[Image: attachment.php?aid=12753]

As always, you can download LDPE from this page:

http://nilsschmidt1337.github.io/ldparteditor/

Changelog:

(1 new feature and 1 bug fix)

With this release you will be able to...

  • ...benefit from a little performance improvement because of the new integrated "Java 25" runtime.

The following critical issue is fixed:

  1. Rounding didn't update text editor when a vertex was selected in the 3D editor in rare cases.

The program was tested intensively with "real world" files.
However, something can go wrong in about 140.000 lines of code.

Installation on Windows:

  1. Download and extract LDPartEditor_win32_x64.zip
  2. Run LDPartEditor-1.9.01.msi
  3. Start LDPartEditor from the start menu
Installation on Linux:

  1. Download and extract LDPartEditor_linux_x64.zip
  2. Install ldparteditor_1.9.01-1_amd64.deb
  3. Start LDPartEditor from the menu or via launcher
Installation on Mac OS X:

  1. Download and extract LDPartEditor_mac_x64.zip
  2. Mount LDPartEditor-1.9.01.dmg
  3. Drag LDPartEditor.app to the Applications folder
  4. Copy ldparteditor.sh to your home folder
        4a. Open a Terminal.app and run ./ldparteditor.sh
        4b. Or open a Terminal.app and run /Applications/LDPartEditor.app/Contents/MacOS/LDPartEditor

I listen carefully to your requests and possible complaints. Please leave me a message, with your thoughts and wishes to further improve the software.

LDPE is a 3D CAD application: The overall system requirements are higher. While I recommend to use a powerful 64-bit multicore system, it could be possible, to run LDPE on older machines as well.

System Requirements:

Minimum System Requirements:
  • OpenGL 2.1 compatible Graphics Card
  • Operating System (64-bit): Windows [7 or newer], Linux [e.g. Linux Mint >=22], Mac OS X [>=14]
  • CPU: Multicore-Processor e.g. Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon II (>2.0Ghz)
  • RAM: 4GB
  • Video-Memory: 1 GB
  • Free Disk Space: 150 MB
Recommended Requirements:
  • Operating System (64bit): Windows 7,8,10,11, Linux [e.g. Linux Mint >=22], Mac OS X [>=14]
  • OpenGL 3.3 compatible Graphics Card
  • CPU: Multicore-Processor with 4 cores (or more)
  • RAM: >4 GB
  • Video-Memory: >1 GB
  • Free Disk Space: 500 MB
  • For a faster start, LDPartEditor and the LDraw™ library should be installed on an SSD.

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  What to do with Stippling / Crosshatching?
Posted by: Peter Grass - 2026-02-19, 18:12 - Forum: Parts Authoring - Replies (4)

I bought part 3245cpb035 since the pictures of it online sucked and I was going to make it, and took some high res pics for reference. The part has lots of tiny red and white boxes inside the white rays.

So do I

A) make a jillion tiny quad boxes in white and red respectively
B) Make them diagonal lines instead
C) Make the rays pink since thats the average between red & white
D) Ignore the stippling entirely
E) Some other solution like making it a texture instead

?

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Thumbs Up SF90 XX tires 5810 to go with 7834
Posted by: Ryan Hicks - 2026-02-19, 17:09 - Forum: Part Requests - Replies (3)

Saw the 77254 SF90 XX 7834 wheels are into raw-mesh state on the amazing https://forums.ldraw.org/thread-29267.html thread, curious if their tires part 5810 are in the works as well?

Cheers,
Ryan

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  Incomplete image of two minifig heads
Posted by: Alfred Schmitz - 2026-02-18, 9:56 - Forum: Website Suggestions/Requests/Discussion - Replies (5)

Hello!

For quite some time now, there has been an incomplete image of two minifig heads (3626cpx0 and 3626cpx3):

   

Best regards,

Alfred

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  Enabling 'reactions' to posts in MyBB?
Posted by: tom alphin - 2026-02-18, 4:43 - Forum: Website Suggestions/Requests/Discussion - No Replies

I'm not an expert in MyBB platform, but I know that it is a pretty oldschool forum platform - which to be clear, I do not mind at all!  It absolutely works well for this group.

That said, the ability to react to posts has become widespread on various platforms including slack, teams, facebook and others.  I do think that this would be a nice thing to allow peopel to do, since it is a way for people to interact in a low-friction way without polluting the conversation with 'me too' style responses.  A good example is in this thread where I want to give a thumbs up to folks who contribute positively to the effort without replying to each new part with a 'thank you' message.

I have not looked into it closely, but I think this plugin would be a good fit for this use case.
https://community.mybb.com/mods.php?action=view&pid=795


Sincerely,
---Tom

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  Decorated Part: 21560 - Looking for artwork
Posted by: Paul Haan - 2026-02-17, 18:56 - Forum: Part Requests - Replies (2)

The part exists and is in Studio but the decorated part is not.  I have been looking for an image to use to create the decorated part in Part Designer on my own but haven't found one that looks close enough to the LEGO Version.

If someone has a workable image, I can try to merge it with the part in Part Designer.  Also happy to accept a fully formed part file.

Bricklink:  21560pb07 - Black Large Figure Armor, Round, Smooth with White Venom Eyes Pattern
BrickOwl:  LEGO Black Large Round Shoulder Armor with White Flames 2 (21560 / 45898)

  • Design ID: 45898
  • Item No: 6253008
  • BOID 819579-38

EDIT FOR EXAMPLE:
I tried applying this image:

.png   venom_eyes_v1.png (Size: 9.67 KB / Downloads: 80)

The mapping didn't look very good though: 

.png   Venom_21560_Mapped.png (Size: 47.46 KB / Downloads: 80)

After some Trial and error, I arrived at this:
   

I would still like to find the proper art but I think this works well enough for now.

This is the original part:
[Image: 81213.webp]

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