Hi Y'all,

Sorry if this is RTFM, but:

Is there a way to post screenshots as attachments in the forum? Or could we get the .png extension as a legal attachment type? I can host pics on flickr or elsewhere but I hate to have external links go bad based on an external hosting service...

Cheers
Ben

Looking at the radius 4 parts (e.g antenna, tech flex axle endings)

In real life they fit the inside axle holes, but in our library the max radius to fit in axle holes is only 2.8284 LDU ( sqrt(2^2+2^2) ). This seems quite a big margin.

Is this on purpose or is ether the axle hole or the 4LDU bar stuff wrong but accepted over time?

Or I'm I missing something else?

So this one was quite popular in the 90s. 22 sets and 23 different minifigs...

Minifig, Head Glasses with Blue Sunglasses and Wide-Spaced Stubble Pattern

peeron pic

I will try make better renders later

Attached Files

  6279 - Skull Island.mpd (Size: 50.77 KB / Downloads: 39)

I found out that there is no 973p32 part in library. Part with that name has cream stripes. But bricklink and my eyes sayes that stripes are white. So is it mistake in library or i have to upload part with white stripes?
Also Datheader said 486 - wrong color (this is belt), so what is right color?

Hello all,

I made a building instruction with Lpub and I converted it to a pdf file to print it. But the pdf file genrated is too big to be printed. I used different computers, printers, pdf viewers (Acrobat reader, X-change, Foxit reader) but I was never able to print the instruction. Either the printing doesn't start or stops after a few pages.

Do you know a way to reduce pdf size or another way to export the instruction from Lpub ?

Thanks in advance,
Fabrice

Hi folks,

Does anyone have any LDD or MLCAD files of Warhammer 40K models. I'm particularly interested in the 40K Dreadnoughts. Here's a particularly awesome design:
http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/44790

Another cool one is here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/90688613@N08/10307082533

Bye for now

Reuben

Hi folks,

Once more we are rather late with the nominations/election process...

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Could we please increase the number of digits in the reference matrices inside parts?

I was investigating very weird behavior of my part snapping code and it turns out it's caused by inexact rotation matrices derived from primitive references.

It concerned the 120 deg angles connecters (10288 and 57585)

Replacing the rotation matrix with
0.5 0.8660254037844 0 0 0 1 0.8660254037844 -0.5 0

fixed everything, so please don't spare those digits when referring stuff at angles.

Just venting