I just released DATHeader version 3.0.12.0.

The following changed:
NEW:
1) The new folder p/8/ is now integrated
2) "Alias" parts are now checked for: (announcement see here)
2a) Description needs to start with "="
2b) Only color 16 is allowed
2c) It needs to have a comment with the wording Alias of <partnumber>
2d) <partnumber> needs to be the part number of the linetype 1 referrer
3) "Physical_Colour" parts are now checked for: (announcement see here)
3a) The colours used needs to mentioned in the description (f.e. [320] or [4/320]
3b) There should be no line with color 16 and/or 24 in this file
3c) Only linetype 1 and 0 should be used within this file
CHANGE: -
BUGFIX: Wrong brackets around username now mentioned as error. (For error report see this message)

You can download the new version from ldraw.heidemann.org as usual.

Please leave your comments, suggestions and/or error reports as response to this message.

Hi all.

I was poking around in my LDraw installation this evening, and came across LDrawInfoTip.dll in %LDRAWDIR%/Apps/LDrawToolTip/. It doesn't correspond to any tool that I can recall, so I tried to find out what it was.
All I could find of any use (there are a lot of posts to anti-virus forums containing this file as output of some virus scanner or other) was this LUGNET thread http://news.lugnet.com/cad/?n=9289 which at least tells me what it's supposed to do.
However, that thread (and the dll itself) is now over a decade and several OS versions old. Does it still do what it's supposed to do on a modern (read:64-bit) system?

Thanks and regards,
Owen

the funny thing about this is that they chose
to use the historic blue 4.5V train track.

the train took 4 hours to travel the whole track.



http://aboutus.lego.com/en-us/news-room/...nessRecord

here is an imho very interesting history of AFOLs,
including James Jessiman's initial posting that announced ldraw.exe

http://www.suave.net/~dave/afol_history.pl?timeline=1

Hi, I just found Buf3D in Google's Play Store.

It seems to be a 3D viewer Android app capable of showing .ldr and .mpd files.

Haven't tried it yet, just watched its video.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai...plus.buf3d

I'm not looking for any Brickarms guns for LDraw, but simply the Brickarms U-Clip and Monopod parts.

They don't need to be anything fancy, just something that looks similar would be more than enough.

A very interesting -and somewhat scary - article posted on The New Elementary: Bricks, Inc

Hello All,

After four weeks of testing and bug fixing I've decided to release the definitive 1.2 version of LDCad.

Major 1.2 features (still) are

• Flexible parts
  
• Template system
  
• Nested editing
  
• (recursive) Grouping
  

• Smoothing of parts
  
• Up to 30% increase of rendering performance.
  
• Material depended rendering (metal, rubber etc) (*)
  
• Automatic editing plane (*)
  
• Extended search part bin filter options (*)
  
• Building book like parts in step/model overview part bin groups (*)
  

I like to extend the possibilities of DATHeader.
Now I focused on the Physical_Colour parts.

As far as I have followed the last posts and discussions a part with the flag Physical_Colour should have the following:

1) There is only one line (linetype 1) in the wanted color.
1) There are only linetype 1 lines with colors different from color code 16.
2) The colorcode for this color is mentioned in the description in square brackets (fe [320]).
2) The colorcodes for these colors are mentioned in the description in square brackets (fe [320/83]).
2.1) If there is only one linetype 1 line the colorcode has to be mention in the description as follow (fe [320]).

If that is true and nobody claims I like to implement tests based on this definition.

I am sure that this definition is used in the past not correctly if the definition is correct. Please see the following part and references: http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cg...173283.dat

I would like to have the links in the posts to be opened in a new tab/window, so I can close that tab/window and can still read the post to the end.

I know that i can use the back button of the browser, but I think if you use external links, they should never close the calling page.

cu
Mike