The peeron server that hosts the LDraw Parts Tracker is out of disc space. As yet I don't know whether this is something to do with LDraw or the high level of peeron activity we have seen recently.

For now I have suspended access to the Parts Tracker to avoid submit and review failures.

I'll post here when things are fixed.

When I tried to make airplane, I found this part was missing until now.

http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/54097

I hope this part would be released as soon as possible.

Thanks for reading.

KWON

Hi folks,

I just updated the MLCad.ini file accordingly to the latest LDraw.org parts
update 2012-01. The .ini file defines (among other things) the parts available
in MLCad's minifigure generator.

Download the file from my website: http://www.holly-wood.it/mlcad/ini-en.html

A direct download is available at: http://www.holly-wood.it/files/mlcad/MLCad.ini

Bye, w.

Folks,

we still have tons of parts we've got from the LU team awaiting cleanse:

http://wiki.ldraw.org/index.php?title=Ca...positories

please take a look and don't forget to check the PT before working them. The list at the wiki looks a bit outdated.

w.

Please vote on the proposal below. Please modify the Subject to include your name and vote, in addition to giving your vote in the text.

Quote:The sticker is a 0.25 LDU thin box (or whatever shape sticker is in), oriented such that the top face is at -0.25 Y and parallel with the X-Z plane. The pattern is on the top face; the other (five) sides of the box correspond to main background colour of the sticker pattern (i.e. the predominant colour of the pattern at its edges). If there isn't a predominant colour at the edges of the sticker, the actual colour of the sticker material should be used instead (usually white).

Quote:The sticker is a 0.25 LDU thin box (or whatever shape sticker is in), without any linetypes 2 (edgelines) and coloured with main color 16. The sticker is oriented such that the top face is at -0.25 Y and parallel with the X-Z plane. The pattern with the hardcoded colours is on the top face.

Quote:The sticker pattern is modelled by real colour; they are not modifiable from the outside. All printed colour of the pattern must be matched. Mimicking a colour by blending in the background colour of the part underneath using colour 16 is not allowed. Colour 16 is exclusively allowed for a transparent portion of the pattern, so that the sticker can be attached to any color parts and still blend in. Since edges are forbidden in sticker parts, colour 24 is not allowed.

Quote:The sticker pattern is modelled by real colours; they are not modifiable from the outside. All printed colours of the pattern must be matched, and the background (non-printed portion) of the pattern must use colour 16. Mimicking a colour by blending in the background colour of the part underneath using colour 16 is not allowed. Since edges are forbidden in sticker parts, colour 24 is not allowed.

How are we going to name Hero Factory specialized parts? Previous equivallent range was named "Technic Bionicle", but it's now a bit wrong... Maybe "Technic Figure"?
Case in point is http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cg.../92218.dat. To make things worse, this particular part is not truly "Technic"...

Practical Example: http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cg...6bpx83.dat

This part is on hold for over 3 months, the author not responding (to reviews) for over 6 months. I don't know if the author is still active and/or just has lost interest in working on this part.

I'd like to make this part from scratch. What would be the right procedure without stepping on the toes of anybody? And how would I submit it if the partnumber is already in use?

[EDIT] Okay, I've just seen, that Stan is still active in this forum. So, Stan, would you mind if I give a try in making the Leia head?

BrickPad 1.3.3 has been submitted to the App Store. This version includes bug fixes as well as new features:

- Support for Retina display on the new iPad.
- Advancing through steps will now traverse into MPD sub models automatically
- Help/Manual
- Parts of current step indicated by a neon green edge highlight.
- UI is only hidden if viewing the "All" step.
- Fixed a bug where if BrickPad wasn't already running, BrickPad wouldn't open a custom URL.
- Fixed a bug where if "Get more models…" was selected, went offline, then selected one of the models a crash would happen.
- Fixed a bug where on a slow network connection, we would set the cell's image to a prior dequeued cell.
- New model number badge is now updated when coming back into BrickPad.
- Files calling out other files in the same directory now work properly.

Dowload/update in the App Store.

Enjoy,

Ken

Hello people/LSC

Since it is perfectly possible to make the x/48 (eg. 7/24, 1/6 etc.) primitives on a 16-sided polygon (using eg. my little perl script) provided care is taken (another approach would be to make 1/48 and 2/48 wedge parts that fill in the gap) I was thinking it might be nice to cut the restriction to using 48 sides for such fractions.

In particular parts like 30632 would not need such a huge number of faces.

What do you think?

Tim

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