Hi All,
A little background. I'm a long time AFOL train head. I ran BrickFest a few times in Portland. Worked together on the Hobby Train project with Tim Gould... now I run altBricks. I know enough about LDraw / MLCad to get around pretty well when it comes to model making and rendering and laying out instructions. But now I need two custom elements for altBricks so I can make instructions using them and post the .dat files for others that want to virtually build with these elements.






I created them already (linked) but think they need some tweaking from someone who is good at element creation. Here's the list of things needed:
1) Stud holes (tubes) on the bottom. I didn't add these cause for rendering they aren't seen much (but should be there).
2) The thickness on the bottom should equal a tile, they don't now.
3) The width of the remaining 3 sides need to be consistent and equal to the width of the newest LEGO windows.

I would be happy to send some altBricks stuff for the effort, if that's of interest we can work that out offline.
Thanks
SteveB

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  EP_1x2_GriderX.dat (Size: 3.81 KB / Downloads: 0)
  EP_1x3_GriderX.dat (Size: 4.61 KB / Downloads: 0)

I wrote this for myself but I'm posting it here in case it is of use to anyone else.

This is a browser javascript bookmarklet that can be run on an html parts list produced by LDView's "Parts List" function to provide these additional features:

• Dynamic re-sorting of parts list by any column(s)
  
• Repair of missing part images
  
• Color swapping of part images
  

1. Visit the relevant link above.
   (I can't post the script here because this forum damages the script (even using "quote" or "code").)
   
2. Copy the entire contents of the RAW Paste Data box to your clipboard.
   
3. Create a new bookmark in your browser.
   
4. Edit the properties of the bookmark.
   
5. Paste the copied script from above into the location/URL box.
   Verify the paste begins with javascript: and ends with (document); as some browsers will chop the end of the script off rendering it useless.
   
6. Set the bookmark name to something useful, like "LDView Parts List Sorter".
   
7. Save the bookmark.
   

1. Open an LDView generated html parts list in your browser.
   
2. Click on the bookmark to run it.
   

• Click on a column header to re-sort the parts list by that column. Click the same column header again to reverse sort order. Each sort is a result of the previous sort, so multi-index sorting can be achieved - if you sort by color and then by quantity then parts will be primary sorted by quantity and secondary sorted by color whenever the quantities match, and so on.
  

• If a part has no image due to the LDView 4.1/4.2B1 "shortcut" bug whereby LDView doesn't generate an image link because it mistakenly believes the part is not an official part, then clicking on the part number will override this decision and attempt to fetch an image for this part using your chosen color.
  
• If any part has no image due to Peeron not having an image in your chosen color, then clicking on the part number will prompt you to enter a new color number for the image. Colors 0-15 (and especially 7) will increase the chances of an image now appearing, although there are still parts for which Peeron doesn't have an appropriate image to show for any color.
  
• If you click on a part number and enter a new color in the form =7 then the addition of the = causes it to search & replace the images of all parts matching the original color of the part you clicked on with the color 7. Whilst this can be used to swap any color for another globally, it is most useful for models that use color 16, since LDView outputs this as color -1 (which results in missing images) and you can use this feature to generate images with a usable example color. The = feature only works if you had the Color column enabled within LDView when generating the parts list. You can also use the form ==7 to force all part images to color 7 for example.
  

For the last 4 days the LDraw.org site home page has been missing a few sections.

I've browsed this from several countries and got the same result, so I assume everyone is seeing this same problem...

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Hello,

Here is a more secure and more stable LPC release!

If you are already using a version greater than 1.5.0 you can simply update your installation by clicking on "Help -> Install Updates" and choose "Yes"

Change log:

New features:

• Improved security.
  

• Fixed some errors regarding primitives and subfiles
  
• Fixed that one reference line wasn't drawn in some cases
  
• Fixed minor translation errors
  

Following the decision of how to name the stud on the minifig heads 3626a/b/c,
I've found that the same design number is used on more than one part.

We have at the PT six heads with numbers (part alias):
10756, 46506, 86294, 89510, 90787 and 99570

A search on those numbers at Brickset shows cgi-pictures of both 3626b an 3626c heads;
10756 (design number), leads to 6006387, (item number) and shows a 3026c-head.
46506, (4200908) shows a b-head.
86294, (4549621) shows a b-head.
89510, (4578503) shows a b-head.
90787, (4584727) shows a b-head.
99570, (4651443) shows a c-head.

A search at Bricklink of the item-numbers leads to both 3626b and 3626c heads;
6006387, leads to 3626cpb719 (and a reference to 3626bpb719 as a similar design)
4200908, leads to 3626bpb122 AND 3626cpb122
4549621, 3626bpb366 AND 3626cpb366
4578503, 3626bpb332 AND 3626cpb332
4584727, 3626bpb471 AND 3626cpb471
4651443, 3626bpb633 AND 3626cpb633

Are TLG using the same design and item numbers on more than one part?
How do we handle that in our library?

is there any way to create/insert a deformed tyre in mlcad (or other programs) ?
something like this:

Are there some simple basic models available?
I want to try out simple examples based on standard bricks, which are easy to build by small children.
Thanks!

Basic models: Based on simple brick's with 2x4 or 2x2 or 1x4 or .... Typically from Lego or other addition sets. Not the special bricks which are difficult to find. Simple sets to build a tree, small house, animal.

Hi,

had a discussion about flat surface on a old minifig head part. Philippe stated he is using his eyes to spot un non-flat surface.
This hunting me in my dreams tonight. Because I'm lazy or just have bad eyes - I tried to come up with some coding magic to improve my eyes.

So my idee was to go through a given file an calculate normlized cross product of each plane and print those value

rename CheckFlat.txt to CheckFlat.java
compile a java binary with "javac CheckFlat.java"
run "java CheckFlat ../Downloads/3626p05s01.dat"

it is possible to tweak precision
java CheckFlat ../Downloads/3626p05s01.dat X Y Z
X: output precision (default is 5)
Y: internal precsision for dividing and square root (default is 150)
Z: rounding (default is 5)
possible values are:
ROUND_CEILING 2
ROUND_DOWN 1
ROUND_FLOOR 3
ROUND_HALF_DOWN 5
ROUND_HALF_EVEN 6
ROUND_HALF_UP 4
ROUND_UNNECESSARY 7
ROUND_UP 0

programm is not very error prove since it was written this morning as a prototyp. So e.g. a very complex file will properly result into an error. Also some rounding values may cause an error too.

It also only check one of the two possible triangle of an quad. All other lines are just printed. You will get something like this:



0 ~Minifig Head with Standard Grin and Eyebrows Pattern - Half Face
0 Name: s\3626p05s01.dat
0 Author: Chris Dee [cwdee]
0 !LDRAW_ORG Unofficial_Subpart
0 !LICENSE Redistributable under CCAL version 2.0 : see CAreadme.txt

0 BFC CERTIFY CCW

0 !HISTORY 2014-02-13 [smr] BFC, t-junctions, moved half face from 3626bp05 to s\3626p05s01.dat

0.55561 0.00000 -0.83144
0.55588 0.00013 -0.83126
0.55520 0.00002 -0.83172
0.55501 0.00000 -0.83185
0.55507 0.00000 -0.83180

0.19476 -0.00040 -0.98085
0.19519 -0.00001 -0.98076
0.19548 0.00000 -0.98071
0.19525 0.00010 -0.98075
0.19517 0.00000 -0.98077
0.19594 -0.00025 -0.98062
0.19478 -0.00029 -0.98085
0.19548 0.00000 -0.98071
1 16 3.5 10 -12.304 -1.25 0.2486 0 0 0 -1.25 -0.2486 1 0 4-4ndis.dat
0.19779 0.00000 -0.98024
0.19779 0.00000 -0.98024
0.19504 0.00001 -0.98080
0.19545 0.00022 -0.98071
0.19506 0.00015 -0.98079
0.19504 0.00000 -0.98080
0.19504 0.00000 -0.98080
0.19506 0.00000 -0.98079

0.19548 0.00000 -0.98071
0.19484 0.00000 -0.98084
0.19474 -0.00074 -0.98085
1 0 3.5 10 -12.304 -1.25 0.2486 0 0 0 -1.25 -0.2486 1 0 4-4disc.dat
0.19504 0.00000 -0.98080
0.19487 -0.00041 -0.98083
0.19423 0.00000 -0.98096

5 24 4.975 4 -12.01 4.975 17 -12.01 0 4 -13 9.192 4 -9.192
5 24 9.1923 4 -9.1923 9.1923 17 -9.1923 4.9751 4 -12.0107 12.0107 4 -4.9751

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I want to use those helper parts (http://www.holly-wood.it/ldraw/helper-en.html) on MLCad v3.4, but I don't know how to install them because that article was based on o,design MLCad, what can I do?

I just released a new version of LETGUI.

Flipper and Unrectifier are now supported.
The full installer now includes also version 1.4 of Edger2.

Please leave your comments for this version in this thread. Thanks.

cu
mikeheide

LETGUI website