More than a year ago I jumped into a MOC project (my second one, please be lenient) which was initiated by a planned village festival with the motto Bear, including a small Lego exhibition. Spontaneously I decided to go for a MOC based on a memento from a earlier U.S. trip, a Ironwood carving "Mother and Baby Bear".



Some of you helped to tackle the project and bring it forward

Project "Transparent Envelope"
XML to LDR

And this were the steps we were going through:

(1) Laser scan (STL mesh) done by a third party
(2) LSculpt from Bram Lambrecht (converts a triangle mesh into a skin of 1x1 plates)
(3) Splitting up Mother/Baby, remodeling the cutting region and artefacts with MLCad
(4) Coloring all visible bricks with MLCad, throwing away all needless inner parts
(generated by LSculpt, reducing the total number of bricks to one third !)
(5) Organizing skin plates to "layers" with MLCad
(6) With MLCad for each layer: Replacing skin markers by bricks/plates
(in addition constructing a inner structure to stabilize the model)
(7) Visualizing building results stepwise with LDView (MLCad didn't the job well)
Producing partlists and snapshots with LDView
(8) Generating building instructions with LPub
(not too perfect, working doc to build the Bear Group in reality)
(9) Building the Bear Group in reality by my wife Laura
The virtual cobbling together of 25,825 Lego bricks not succeed without errors,
so I had to do some corrections following Laura's advises :-)



MPD File

Bear Group Instructions: Packed PDF 1.1 GB !

I would like to thank you all for your kind support and wish you all the best for 2014 !

NB: Donation done to Peeron 18. Nov 2013 :-)

Anyone know what the official file names are for these minifig parts? Google doesn't turn up much that is useful. Thanks.

This is not directly a part request- more a request for a clarification of this issue:

I find 3741 Plant Flower Stem as 3741A.DAT, but no 3741B.DAT or so in the library. There is also no other version existing in real life. And there is 3741.DAT which seems to be obsolete (it also in the part name). But why is this obsolete part still existing?
And in all models where I used 3741.DAT this remains this version. But I think when there is only one real life version this should be used.
Short: Shouldn't  the obsolete shape replaced with the actual one?. This would mean deleting 3741.DAT and renaming 3741A.DAT to 3741.DAT.
Why has this not happend? Is there a good reason?
When modeling official sets, should then always the 3741A.DAT be used?

Hope this can cleared up

Life Size Lego Car Powered by Air

Something to do during the hollidays?

The link to LDraw organization "The LDraw Parts Tracker is maintained and developed by voluntary members of the LDraw organisation. " is dead (http://www.ldraw.org/article/84)

Guys,

I'm looking for this kind of screenshot:



on a Win 7 machine. The shot should also comprise the start button. Ideal would be if you've got running a Win 7 Enterprise in order to have also a German and Italian version of the screenshot.

Thx, w.

delete-post on wrong place

Datsville revision 328 is out. There are several added buildings and vehicles, including a depot for city-owned vehicles and an airport.

The latest city map can be viewed here:

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

The model files can be downloaded here:

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

Enjoy!

Hello,

Here is an overall faster and more precise LPC release
If you are already using a version greater than 1.5.0 you can simply update your installation by clicking on "Help -> Install Updates" and choose "Yes".

Change log:

New features:

• The projection quality is improved.
  
• Improved performance of the projection matrix calculation.
  
• Improved performance in "Add Vertex" mode.
  

• Fixed a bug that displays the wrong version number.
  

Hi at all,

I know there are bigger fish to fry, but I would ask to modify the part geometry of 54200, if anyone considers this to be relevant enough: Slightly rounded edges and remarkable rounded upper two corners, if that would steel not too much of your rar and worthful time.

50746 is declared as an Alias of 54200 with the following remark: 54200 is used for moulding opaque parts, 50746 for transparent parts. Following Brickset's Parts Browser I can see no such affiliation for older (no more manufactured) parts, also 50746 had opaque surfaces.

http://www.brickset.com/parts/browse/cat...th%20Slope

Thanks,
Arthur