Just so no-one worries, I'm on vacation until 3/3 so the 2026-02 update will be about a week late.

Thread for Friends 2026 sets

LDView 4.7 is now available.

You can download this release from the LDView Downloads Page.

You can see the Change History here.

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.

  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

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

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

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.



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.
  

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

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

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
   

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
   

• 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
  

• 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.
  

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

?

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

Hello!

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

   

Best regards,

Alfred