Hello!

I'm just going through the tutorial for Ldraw, and making the blue car, and it mentioned setting a keyframe by clicking on the blue key icon.

There is no blue key icon to be found. My tool bar is also missing the stop and play buttons, and the animation icon (film strip). Do I need to activate or add them somehow? Or did I install LeoCAD incorrectly?

Oh, and my version is 0.80.2.

Thanks!

-Tommy

So why you might ask, to be honest I'm not quite sure. Nevertheless, it happened and you can find a very early version here: http://webldraw.spillerrec.dk/ (Source on Github: https://github.com/spillerrec/WebLDraw )
I have only spend a week on this so far and this is the first time I done something more advanced than a triangle with OpenGL, so this is very rough implementation. This is also written in Dart, which again I have never messed around with before.

Quick overview:

• Understands all the basic LDraw stuff, i.e. anything else than META commands
  
• Basic controls, left-click rotates, middle click moves and right-click zooms.
  
• Fullscreen support, hover over the canvas and press 'F'. Want to have a button, but not sure where I should get the icon from... Seems only to work in Chrome now that I tried it again, I have to check up on that.
  
• MPD support
  
• Simple to embed on a page, add: <div class='webldraw' data-file="X.ldr"><canvas width=X height=X>fallback message</canvas></div> and the script will do the rest.
  

• No rendering of optional lines, I have to learn more about OpenGL to figure out how this should be done
  
• Transparency is buggy
  
• Zooming with scroll-wheel doesn't work because a bug in dart2js
  
• It looks absolutely horrible in Opera 12, and I'm not really sure why. Looks much better in Firefox and Chrome. Anti-aliasing is turned of in Opera, but I wonder if that is the only cause.
  
• Some lines are not clearly visible
  
• Potential race-condition during loading when having multiple models on one page.
  
• No progress bar when loading, that is next up on my list. Also I suspect the conversion can be a bit slow, but I need to profile it.
  

A new version of Selector (V1.2) is available:

• Bug correction: using discolor (-d, -d+) previously implied -m option
  
• Bordering condlines are no longer selected if -b option is specified.
  
• Condlines and edge lines are now sorted separately when -s option is specified.
  

• -x++..-z-- are similar to -x+..-z-, but use an offset parameter to be able to use any plane in main directions, not just origin planes. "-x++ 0" is the same as "-x+".
  
• -i inverts direction of split. No need to invert winding of elements in splitter file. This is active also for main plane splits, so -i -x+ is the same as -x-
  
• -d0 options deletes nothing. This allows to snap elements of a file to splitter plane(s). Warning: splitter planes are infinite, so snapping may occur in areas far form the area you want to modify!
  

http://www.ldraw.org/library/tracker/ref/catkeyfaq/

Quote:If you have more questions, please ask! You can post to lugnet.cad.dev, or email Steve Bliss.

I am trying to motorize my train so that I need to draw removing original parts for space to assmbler battery and receiver, I am not sure how to substrate parts from train, I only know how to add parts to train, can you help me?

Hi all,

How many of you have seen that Sergio has a new release of SR 3D out?
How do we convince him to announce it here, at our forum, the next time?

Hi all, in light of the last few voting periods I'm proposing the following changes to the LSC Charter. The SteerCo has control of this document but in the interest of community input and transparency, I'm posting my suggested changes here for discussion prior to the SteerCo voting any change.

The reference document is here: http://www.ldraw.org/article/382.html
My proposed changes are listed below:

Nominations

Rename to Election Candidates

change text to:
Candidates for the election will be:
- The currently sitting LSC
- Any person who volunteers and meets the LSC eligibility requirements
Candidates may withdraw their candidacy at any time before and during the election cycle.


Elections

change text to:
Elections will be held according the the schedule listed in the Recurring Dates section. Only LDraw organization members will vote on the candidates by privately listing the five (5) nominees they select for the position. Votes will be received and tallied by the LDraw.org Steering Commitee, who will be accountable to each other and to the community for accuracy. In the event that the pool candidates is less then or equal to the number of available positions on the LSC, no election will be held.


Inaguration

Remove this section


Recurring Dates

change text to:

October 1: Annual summary published. Call for candidates.
October 14: All petitions for candidacy must be received and recorded
October 17: LSC Elections begin
October 31: LSC Elections end
On or before November 7: LDraw.org Steering Commitee announces election results
November 15: New LSC Members take office
* The dates may flex a few days in either direction due to the personal schedules of the site admins.

Hi.
I need part 11295 for a project.

Christian.

Hi,

I compiled LPub4 in Linux which runs fine. I render with LDView.
I used three version of LDView: a 4.2 under wine, a Linux-native 4.2 installed from the debs on sourceforge and a self-compiled Linux-native 4.2

Problems:
- with Wine-Version and Linux-natives I get different results by using the same args
- the problem seems to be the -ca and -ca arguments. Without it, both LDViews gave the same view on screen
- other arguments probably are not affected (but I didn't tested it a lot)
- the Linux-version-problem does happen both in the installed Ubuntu-deb and in a self-compiled binary

Question: are the -ca and -ca arguments in the Linux-versions inactive or is the syntax somehow different?

(there is a problem with the alpha-channel in the Wine-Version as well which prevents me from using the wine-LDView as renderer for LDPub, but this is another topic

Im running it under Linux Mint Maya (pretty much a Ubuntu 12.04)

thanks for a reply and best regards, Ingolf

Hello all,
This is my first post to this forum, so my apologies if this is not the right spot for this question, or if it has been asked previously.

My question is about part 4070, aka the Erling or "headlight brick". The brick seems be modeled such that it "fits" in a perfect 1x1x1 stud opening, however this is not the case because the open stud on the face of the brick actually extends slightly out beyond the 1x1x1 footprint of the brick (I hope I have expressed this clearly). Needless to say, this inaccuracy in the dimensions has bitten me on more than one occasion when trying to build a model I've designed in MLCAD. As a side note, LEGO's own LDD (not a fan but I have tinkered with it in the past) - also seems to allow an adjacent brick in front of the studded facet.

Has this ever been discussed before or are there any plans to address this?

Thanks for any help!