I find the docs somewhat unclear, could someone shine some additional light on when and why the '~' and '_' prefixes are used?

For example I used to think the ~ is 'depreciated' and/or 'moved' but looking at 4179 this seems weird because it's a complete (and valid?) part as far i can see.

I'm struggling with this while tweaking the default part bin content of LDCad, currently I exclude all parts starting with ~ and _ but I'm starting to think I might be cutting away too much.

So in short how should these prefixes be handled in means of putting them in a part bin yes/no.

Hi guys it's me (yet) again I've been lurking around here for a while now and thought to see what's new in the tracker and help up with the review stuff a bit and all. I'd get back to authoring if mlcad wasn't as clunky. :/

Though this new account I made on the forums doesn't have review rights and my old arezey account doesn't seem to even exist anymore, can't log into it.

Anyway it's been a while since I've said anything here really so I'd like to mention that the library sure has grown over the past few years and the new CMS is awesome. You guys do a great job.

I'm working on the graphics for a book to be published soon and need to make some pictures which use the new orange brick separator.  As far as I can tell, only the old dark gray one exists in LDraw.  I'd love it if the new one was available to make the book more current.

Thanks,
Eric Albrecht
Blakbird

A few months ago I wrote an LDraw Part Tracker plugin for DuckDuckGo. I've just been notified that is now live!

For example, try this query: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=98263.dat (the plugin generates the box at top)

Some background: DuckDuckGo is a search engine that accepts user-contributed plugins to provide "instant answer" responses for domain-specific queries. See DuckDuckHack for an overview of the plugin architecture. A couple different kind of plugins are possible; mine is a "fathead" plugin, which responds to keywords (part numbers) read from a data source (the tracker's part list). More fathead plugin details and examples are available here. Last but not least, here is the source code for the LDraw plugin.

Please feel free to fork and improve the plugin. The DuckDuckGo team responds to pull requests and may integrate approved changes with their site. (I think they are investing more emphasis on plugins now; the DuckDuckHack overview site did not exist when I first tried writing this plugin.)

I've listed some ideas for improvements under "Limitations" in the Readme for the plugin. The two most obvious would be to support part number-lookup-by-name (right now it's name-lookup-by-number; seems like an easy swap to make) and, especially, support for the full part library, not just the unofficial parts in the tracker. That will be a little more work, since it would need to read multiple sources. However, I think it'd be worthwhile. DuckDuckGo does some clever things with the data output by the plugin, such as auto-generating tables by category.

Hey,

Here comes LPC 1.4.0..


Please uninstall older versions of this software before installing a new version.
Your configuration won't be deleted if you have already version greater than 1.3.1 installed on your machine.

Change log:

New features:

• The spline tool has left the beta stage. Spline vertices are arranged with an equal distance (This feature needs still a bit improvement. I hope to fix it in 1.4.1).
  
• The spline tool was moved to the "Add Primitives.." menu.
  
• Colour changes: Default colour 7 (old-grey) to 71 (light-bluish-grey) and colour 6 (brown) to 70 (reddish brown) [this change will be visible in a fresh installation of this program].
  

• The spline tool is translated (Thanks J.C.)
  
• The triangle chain tool is translated and does not crash anymore
  

Hi all,

With LDCad 1.1 in the beta stage, I'm starting to gather information/ideas for flexible part support (pneumatic hoses etc) in 1.2. I'm mainly thinking about using bezier curves for editing, the generated parts them selves will probably be submodels using official library subparts were available and generated type 2..5 lines for the rest.

I myself have very little experience with LSynth and the likes so if anyone has some different suggestions/ideas?

Hi I needed the vehicle mudgaurd to finish my model and Philippe Hurbain did a bangin job on that part, so I was wondering if he or someone could make the part#4283123 small mudgaurd w detail and 4 studs and the part#4494474 small curve sloped piece w 2 studs. I'm sorry if these are not the formal names for the parts but I don't know where to get the parts list eccept from the Lego manual and I don't see discriptions just numbers. Thanks in advance

Is there a way to draw an arrow in one step and hide it in later steps. Is this done using ghosting and if so how. I just don't grasp the concept of ghosting. any help is greatly appricated.

I'm looking for this part.

It exists in LDD, but I can't use it in MLCAD. Would be great if someone far more knowledgeable than me could help me with the item.

Thanks.

Is there a way in view mode while shuttling through steps can you go to a step in your model then edit it then go back to view mode. For example I create a model using steps. Some of the steps are wrong. I then go through view mode to view my steps. Then I change my steps by going back to edit mode when the faulty step is selected in view mode. Can a user do anything like this. if not will they consider to add this feature in next release. I find myself creating a model making a mistake and having to create it over and over again hoping to make it without mistakes. Any help is greatly appricated. thanks.