Many LEGO pieces have "LEGO" molded on every knob. (I think it is with every solid knob which seems to affect "System" pieces as opposed to "Technic" pieces.) In fact they happen to have other things molded as well but those are usually hidden and very across the same type of piece.

But it seems to me that LDraw somehow doesn't include that. Or at least not as "first class citizen". MLCad doesn't show such molds at all. LDView does.

So how is that stored? Judging by how LDView shows it it is not part of the 3D object but rather a "texture" (that would also explain why MLCad doesn't show it).

Why is it so? Would that be too complex to model that as well? Or is it just for historical reasons?

I surly do see potential opportunities. General building guidelines forbid some constructions as they stress the pieces too much. Among them are such that are allowed with pieces without molded "LEGO" and disallowed with others. Having the "LEGO" in 3D model would allow automatic recognition of touching edges (and thus unadvised build).

Hi,

This is a rookie question :-)

I have created a simple model in LDD 4.3.8. The model base on EV3 set (31313). Because I don't like the format of building instructions from LDD, I wanted to try LDView and LPub. So I have done an export from LDD to LDR file.

I have installed LDraw_AIOI_2013-01_setup_32bit_v1.exe , plus the latest complete.zip and ldrawunf.zip . I run LDMakeList.exe as well.

When I try to open exported LDR (attached to this thread) in LdView, I get below errors:

Quote:Error loading submodel x933c01.dat.
File: C:\Lego\Tata\Smietnik\auto01.ldr
Line #74
Line: 1 47 79.982009887695312 -170.532470703125 -10.602602958679199 0 0 1 0 -1 0 1 0 0 x933c01.dat
Error loading submodel 59158.dat.
File: C:\Lego\Tata\Smietnik\auto01.ldr
Line #3
Line: 1 4 80 -30.000028610229492 -39.999992370605469 -1 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 1 59158.dat

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This thread is intended to collect queries for help needed by parts authors on the parts tracker.

People owning certain parts, please check this thread from time to time to see if you can help us!

We need your help to be able to solve some of the problems of files on the parts tracker.

For example, a scan or photo of some real life part might be required.

http://divnull.com/blog/2013/lpub-transparency-hack/

In many cases (for example when modeling parts for our LDRAW library),
it is important to have some information about historic differences
between part versions or sets.

this post is intended to collect links to sites providing such information.
maybe some forum admin can make it sticky.

Maybe all those models here

Some features that would be useful to me include:

1. print a list of author fields

I'll think of more later.

Many thanks in advance!

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