Someone just posted the following to a local LUG mailing list I'm subscribed to (emphasis added):

Quote:Thinking about it, I can remember what derailed my learning LDraw/Mcad/ et al... it was the parts management system… [T]he hundreds of variations with a surface graphic made the whole stack completely unmanageable.

Hello,

I'm trying to write simple program that parse .dat files and build tree representation of LDraw model in memory. I have problem to read some sub file references. For example line:

Hi all,

I'm playing around with making the difference between plastic and e.g. rubber parts visible in LDCad.

I've found some nice OpenGL material references but was wondering if there is some kind of 'standard' floating around. Especially for determining the diffuse, ambient and specular components based upon the single rgb supplied in LDConfig.ldr

Up to now I'm using the rgb for both diffuse and ambient, and have a static specular of 1,1,1 and shininess of 128 (which is more appropriate for chrome I'm realizing now).

I'm doing this with the standard lighting model (not shaders) for now (LDCad runs on OpenGL as low as 1.1), so I only can play with the base four components for now.

Is there a reason why we don't include the inner-bottom (where it connects with the adjoining part) edgeline on stud4fns's? At least the part I've been using recently (stud4f4s) doesn't include this line, meaning I have to add it individually for each stud, which is a pain and clutters up larger parts which use lots of them. Was this an oversight? If I were to update and resubmit this primitive, would anybody have a problem with it?

Hi all,

I've seen that MagFors has been busy working on some Iron Man parts :-)

I noticed that on the image for set 76007 (Iron Man : Malibu Mansion Attack) that the visor appears to have a hinge. Is that correct? How does the hinge mechanism work?
See images here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebricktime/8459856541/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/porschecm2/8519272619/

BTW I recently rendered an Iron Man using POV-Ray...
http://www.pearse.co.uk/lego/images/ironman_3d_1024.png
A copy of the LDraw file for this figure is available here:
http://www.pearse.co.uk/lego/models/ironman/


I found Captain America's shield here:
http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cg...902p02.dat
Is anyone working on any other Captain America parts?

One final question - what is the correct hair part for Tony Stark?

Bye for now

Reuben
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Hey,

there are a lot of LEGO bricks that are available in the LDD, but not in LDraw. I created a list that compares the design-ids known in the LDD Brickset 1128 with the part-numbers that are currently available in the official LDraw Parts Library (up to update 2013-01) and with the part-numbers that are currently on the Parts Tracker (Server time: 2013-08-22 10:11).

The LDD uses pure numeric design-ids but LDraw sometimes has numbers with an alphanumeric appendix. To compare these two (three) lists I used the following regular expression:

Hi, is it possible to put a background image on MLCad views ? It would be useful for tracing an object while keeping proportions and such, as in many 3d editors (see for example blender).

I am still discovering the programs that are present for all users.
Recently i read a lot of the program quad2dat.
But i am unable to find/download this.
Does anyone else know a solution to have a picture of a part and convert this to MLcad usable file?

Is there a way to have a specific set of parts associated with only a specific model? I keep each LDraw model in it's own folder and would like each model to have it's own unique parts folder. A parts folder that only holds any extra parts that I am using with the model itself. Is there a way to do this?

Are there any DAT file editors that let you view 1 line at a time similar to what the original LDraw's Ledit does? The problem with Ledit is it can't handle type 5 lines if you save the file it will turn them into type 5 lines.