It's time again to discuss an update to the forum software.

Development on our current software, Phorum, is effectively dead as there are only 2 primary developers and they really don't do any work on the project. PHP is progressing, and for security reasons I feel we should be on the most current, stable version. We have had some problems (not insurmountable) with newer PHP versions and the Phorum software. Also, the back end admin console is a bit clunky and image handling in posts is terrible.

A while back I found what I thought to be a suitable replacement, myBB, but there were some shortcomings that lead me to abandon the conversion project. The major shortcomings being no native "real name" support, and no hybrid threaded view. I'm willing to live without the latter but the former is nonnegotiable in my opinion. However, "real name" support can be built in.

I'd like to open discussion up to the community on thoughts and suggestions.

I have a few specific questions for LDCad use that I haven't (yet) found answers to:

- Changing part colours
If I make a mistake or simply want to try a different colour scheme, I need to change the colour of parts that are already in the model. So far the only way I have been able to do this is to select the part and then double click on the new colour in the colour wheel.
Depending on where the colour is in the wheel this can be tricky. Is there a better way to do this? Is there a way to turn the wheel so a specific colour is more accessible?

- Moving parts to a submodel
Occasionally after building a digital model I realise that for the sake of clarity in the instructions it would be easier to move a number of parts tu a submodel (e.g. either to create a callout). Is there a way to easily move parts to a submodel that doesn't involve deleting them from the main model?
I'm thinking of an option that would allow me to move parts to (and from) submodels in the same way I can now move parts from and to steps

- Substituting parts
have just found I need to change a 6L axle for an 8L axle. Is there a simple way to substitute one part for another, without removing one and reinserting the next? MLCad has a dialogue for that.

Hello Trevor.

I tried to compile LPub3D on Linux but no success so far. Please, what's the proper way?
(I can compile old LPub4 with no problem.)

My attempt: qmake && make

Problems:

1. some files and directories have wrong case in their names, usual problem with sources coming from Windows. I fixed that.
2. qmake warns and make of some files reports an error that I do not have windows.h - what to set on unix-like systems?
3. build.h is missing, how/where I can get it?
4. are there more changes since LPub4, which may cause problems? More libraries etc.?

Thank you,

Milan

I'm working my way through the Mixels sets and I'm missing some parts.
Not that I don't need all of these immediately, I just post them here in advance.

Some are probably quite easy, some are possibly more difficult:

• 59233pb01 (if you make this, you can easily add pb02 and pb03 too).
  
• 11601
  
• 3626cpb1112
  
• 11439pb04 (again, if you make this one, you can easilly make the other color-versions).
  
• 98348
  
• 14769pb026 (very easy)
  
• 15064
  
• 14769pb027 (also easy)
  
• 11100 (also used A LOT in Chima sets)
  

Hello,

I love this LDCad. But with Windows 10 I always need to reduce screen resolution in order to see the menu text in LDCad.

I am using a Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro notebook. Standard and recommend screen resolution: 3200 x 1800.

Is there a trick or a setting, so that LDCad plays nice together with High Resolution Screens (sometimes also called 4K).

Thx,
Manfred

Hi,

I have copied Philo's wiki OMR tutorial to the main site.

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Hello All,

I think the last beta was stable enough to allow a definitive 1.5 version.

Therefore this version only includes some minor bug fixes / tweaks.

I did manage to add MSAA anti-alias support though by merging it in from the 1.6 alpha version.

MSAA will only be applied on the LDraw renderings not the gui overlay. I've found out myself this can cause problems on some VGA drivers so make sure you have the latest ones installed. the old edge only aa is also still available but aa will default back to none when upgrading to this version.

I've also managed to add part snapping info for the new 2015-02 library, the car and support category bin groups parts.

The latest LDCad version (like always) can be downloaded from

http://www.melkert.net/LDCad/download

With this release done I'm going to concentrate on 1.6 which will include the following:

• Region selection.
  
• Macro scripting.
  
• More animation scripting.
  
• ROTSTEP support.
  
• Hotkey management / reassignment.
  
• Multi layer groups.
  

• Buffer exchange support
  
• Povray animation export
  
• Blender animation export
  
• Additional things suggested in the 1.6 suggestions thread.
  

Someone on sourceforge.net reported that they are unable to generate pdf output beyone 96 dpi - even with the following settings:

When I choose "Add assembled image to parent page" at the end of a submodel a rotation icon is added to the callout.
Deleting or hiding it does not work.

The code seems to add correct:
0 !LPUB CALLOUT ROTATE_ICON DISPLAY LOCAL FALSE

Hi

I was wondering if there are any patterned versions of these parts?

50995.dat - CLONE TROOPER HELMET 2
11217.dat - MINI FIGURE HELMET NO 14

These parts are both available here:
http://www.digital-bricks.de/en/index.ph...ddp&mg=244

Thanks

Reuben