I think it would be cool to have something like this:

http://isometricland.net/lego/legopanotour.php

except in real time using hardware acceleration. I.e. a view that is "inside" a model, and that you can navigate around using "hotspots", so you don't have to render hundreds of images in POV-Ray.

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I also discovered this today:

https://sketchfab.com/search/lego

Not sure how efficient it is with lots of parts/primitives/polygons.

The LDraw.org Steering Committee is pleased to announce that the 2013 James Jessiman Memorial Award (JJMA) recipient is Magnus Forsberg.

Just as last year the LDraw Steering Committee was keen to award one of what it called: "The unsung heros of the PT " - in short, people who have worked hard to keep LDraw alive. What does add more value to LDraw and keeps it alive than new parts?
Though Magnus Forsberg has joined the LDraw team only at the end of 2009 and could be considered a youngster among LDraw part authors, he has authored 238 official parts and made changes (improvements) to a further 256 official parts. This workload places him among the top 10 of the part authors. Browsing the activity log a the Parts Tracker you'll hardly find a day where Magnus didn't leave his trace. Patterns, highly sophisticated parts, corrections and shortcuts there seams to be no type of parts Magnus cannot master and the LDraw library wouldn't be what it is today without the contribution and dedication of this year's James Jessiman Memorial Award: Magnus Forsberg!

More information on the JJMA can be found at: http://www.ldraw.org/article/222.html

Willy Tschager
On behalf of the LDraw.org Steering Committee

Seems that I missed to announce version 1.3.5.0 of LDFind.

But that is good as there has been an error in that version.

So I just released the bugfix version 1.3.5.1 of LDFind.

The Name: tag is now again available as search word.

LDFind can be downloaded from http://ldraw.heidemann.org/index.php?page=ldfind

Please send all questions, suggestion for this version as answer to this thread.
Thanks.

New revision 386. Not much outwardly different. Get it here:

https://code.google.com/p/datsville/wiki/Downloads

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

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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