For the last 8ish years I've been occasionally tinkering with my own instruction generation program. Not that I ever found anything wrong with LPub, as a developer I just like rolling my own solutions to problems that interest me. It was a cool little hobby project that I would improve a bit every time I created new instructions. It has evolved over the years, and it's finally reached a point where I feel other people might be able to make use of it.

Note that I just wanted a program where I could hit a button and get a PDF file. If you want to be able to fine tune every step/page this won't be for you. Right now the output is configured specifically for how I wanted my instructions to look, but I have designed it to be extensible, and eventually I hope to add more overall layout options. I have also only tested it with my own files, so who knows what you might get out of it. Please consider it as alpha software.

If you are interested in trying it out you can download it here:
http://truedimensions.com/lego/instructo...14_394.zip
Edit: Forgot to mention, the readme.txt file in the archive has instructions on how to configure it.

It has the following dependencies:
Windows
LDraw
LDGLite or LDView (for rendering)
FOP - http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ (only required for PDF generation, you don't need to install this if you just want to test the program and look at the images it spits out)

You can also just check out some of my instruction files to see what it outputs:
http://truedimensions.com/lego/instructions

So, I'm just curious if anybody else might be interested in this, or what it might become with some improvement. If so, I'd love to hear feedback. I have some time over the next few months where I could do some work on it. If not, no big deal, I'll keep using it for myself.

Jason

I just found this

I just released a new version of LETGUI.

Now with Selector 1.0 included.
Rectifier has been updated to version 1.9.
Also some changes are made for the call of windz (still version 0.1.2.0). Hopefully it now works on all windows versions.

Please leave your comments for this version in this thread. Thanks.

cu
mikeheide

LETGUI website

So i'm also having a go at a WebGL LDraw editor.
Which you can try out here www.mr-bucket.co.uk/TestWebGL.aspx

I was going to update the LDraw editor i last worked on way back in 2004 www.mr-bucket.co.uk/GLIDE/ The old discussion on GLIDE can be found here if you are curious.

Then i discovered WebGL. I figure the best way to make a multi-platform app these days is to make a web app.

Mine is a bit behind the renderer made by Nicola but im putting my rainy weekends into it.

Any feedback please let me know on the LDraw forums.

I am working on a new tool. By trying different possibilities I found that currently 638 files contains ~Moved to.

JFYI
mikeheide

This is now the first.

Form is in complience with OMR specs.

Attached Files

  0112 - Locomotive with Motor.mpd (Size: 73.89 KB / Downloads: 16)

Mike,
Could we also have an updrade of LETGUI?

Philo have added Selector and improved Rectifier.

I can't run windz through LETGUI, for some reason.
It works fine when I run it separatly.

The "output" text entry box is often blocked by the "settings box".

I am working on an import feature for LDraw models, and when I tested it on the Front End Loader model that comes with the LDraw download (model 8464.mpd), I encountered a line with a very large colour code:

just to let you know, l just noticed this Eurobricks official LEGO sets LDRAW contest:
http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.ph...opic=77949

A quick reference to the candidates for the 2013/2014 LDraw.org Steering Committee (SteerCo) election. The information is drawn from the nomination process and corrections are welcome, please email the webmasters.

Candidates are listed in alphabetical order by last name and no ranking or endorsement should be inferred from their position on the list. The following table summarizes the status of each candidate in the format:
Nominee name : Nomination Status (Nominator, Second)

Chris Dee : Accepted (Michael Heidemann, Philippe Hurbain)
Michael Heidemann : Accepted (Philippe Hurbain, Travis Cobbs)
Orion Pobursky : Accepted (Michael Heidemann, Philippe Hurbain)
Max Martin Richter : Accepted (Michael Heidemann, Philippe Hurbain)
Willy Tschager : Accepted (Orion Pobursky, Michael Heidemann)

Magnus Forsberg : Declined (Michael Heidemann, Philippe Hurbain)
Tim Gould : Declined (Orion Pobursky, Michael Heidemann)
Steffen Lohse : Declined (Philippe Hurbain, Michael Heidemann)
Scott Wardlaw : Declined (Orion Pobursky, Philippe Hurbain)

Replies to this have been disabled. The nominations thread is where they belong.