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  Newbee looking for basic tool set for part authoring
Posted by: Steve Barile - 2012-09-26, 22:30 - Forum: Parts Authoring - Replies (2)

Hi All,
I'm a long time MLCad, LPub, ... yada yada yada user and pretty familiar with 3D concepts etc… I’m playing around with making custom parts and would like to model first in 3D. I have had limited success with Notepad and MLCad. It’s nice that MLCad can move primitives but sucks that you can’t scale them (at least I don’t know how to scale in MLCad).

Is there an LDraw part authoring tool chain for part dev that is more 1990’s rather than 1970’s text editing! ;-)

Thanks Guys!
SteveB

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Thumbs Up Parts preview catalog
Posted by: Celeyron - 2012-09-25, 7:44 - Forum: Part Requests - Replies (5)

Hello everyone,

First of all, a big "Thank you" for these programs : you made a little boy's dream real !

I've a simple question concerning the list of official updated parts . It's hard, sometimes, to find the part we need in the preview corner of MLCad. Is there any catalog of parts preview, any PDF wich lists all the Official parts with their name, number and little preview ? It could be easier to have it on paper.

Thank you one more time for your answers !

Dom

PS : Sorry for the language errors, i'm French !

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  Those ever-lasting moments of head-desking
Posted by: Santeri Piippo - 2012-09-25, 0:27 - Forum: Parts Authoring - Replies (2)

I was collecting parts from my container thingies so that I could put together a jetrax for the sake of 2008 (which was IMO Bionicle's gold year).. noticed I had one of the engine turbine parts missing. Took quite a few days of looking around everywhere until I finally found it in the only place I had forgotten to look at.

So there I was sitting on my bed and thought about those past attempts I had made to make another LDraw part again (stuff like modeling the teeth of the rotating blades, staff of fragmentation, etc) with the turbine part in hand and a wild idea caught me. LDraw's parts tracker revealed that there was an earlier attempt, but being 16-division-circles and lacking some geometry (like the fan interior details), I decided to give my own attempt on the part instead of trying to finish the existing one. Changing resolutions in circles tends to be pretty bad on one's hairs.

So I got the main skeleton done, along with the outer fan blades (which were challenging but doable with a bit of philotools), when I suddenly realized -- those smaller, outer fan blades weren't as systematic as the inner ones. My usual tricks (or at least the ones I still remember) couldn't really help this time around. It was at this point I remembered the LDD/LUT parts that were around when I was active last time around. After a bit of searching, found the LUT version of the part, complete with the outer fans. Just as I was already hoping to be able to finish the part, I noticed to my shock...

[Image: arrrgh.png_thumb.jpg]

Yeah. the blade was too small. If I had remembered the LUT version from the beginning I probably wouldn't be feeling as foolish as I do now. What do?

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Thumbs Up 64179 Technic Beam 5 x 7 with Open Center 3 x 5
Posted by: Remco Canten - 2012-09-24, 19:38 - Forum: Part Requests - Replies (15)

can someone make this part usable?

many of the technic sets contain this part. also if possible

64178 Technic Beam 5 x 11 with Open Center 3 x 5

greetings rempie

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  The LDraw "Community"
Posted by: Martin James - 2012-09-24, 8:37 - Forum: Website Suggestions/Requests/Discussion - Replies (13)

Help! I'm lost, confused, and not sure what to do first/next/last.

Somewhere in the great rewrite of this site I seem to have disappeared, as do most of the things I used to recognize under the umbrella of "Community". I used to have an account ("Emjay") but it doesn't work any more. I managed to create a new one, with exactly the same user name and details, to give me access to the Forums so I can at least get this far.

But my main problem is this:

My "Virtual Minibrix" parts library survived the rewrite, and now appears under "Parts" then "Other Parts Libraries". This is fine -- it is still very popular, and has a large and still-growing user base. However, somehow I need to get the entry on that page changed, as the site is moving to a new URL.

So how do the "Community" pages now get updated? And does the concept of user contributions still exist?

--
Martin James

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  Lego Lord of the Rings
Posted by: Reuben Pearse - 2012-09-22, 20:46 - Forum: Parts Authoring - Replies (2)

Hi guys,

Has anyone started creating parts for the new Lego Lord of the Rings sets? Some of the new minifigures are really cool!
I recently got my son set 9471 (Uruk-Hai Army). The Uruk-Hai swords and shields are really neat!

Some of the new LOTR sets feature a new version of the 1x2 brick that has indentations in the piece. See here for more details.

It looks like some of the minifig patterns will be fun to create. Any takers?

I look forward to seeing some LOTR parts on parts tracker soon.

Bye for now

Reuben

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Download 3D Lego models and other resources from:
http://www.pearse.co.uk/lego
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  Space Police II Prison Train
Posted by: Steffen - 2012-09-22, 17:30 - Forum: MOCs (My Own Creations) - No Replies

I liked the design and playability of David Glenn Simmons' "Space Police II Prison Train":
http://davidglennsimmons.com/archive/MyL...0Train.htm

I stumbled over it while researching for the existence of the 3x3 plate questioned here
http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cg.../11212.dat

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  LDPatternCreator - Release 1.4.3
Posted by: Nils Schmidt - 2012-09-22, 16:50 - Forum: Parts Author Tools - Replies (2)

Hey,

Here is the new LPC 1.4.3!


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 DAT file header parser is improved.
  • The T-junction detector is improved.
Fixed bugs from 1.4.2 and older:
  • LPC crashes when a subfile gets imported as part and then exported as DAT (only for non-standard subfile names like XXXpXX[a-z].dat).
  • Blank lines in part metadata are not deleted.
  • The object mode (tringle, vertex, primitive) is not restored after closing the preview mode.

(see full list of tickets for 1.4.3)

I included a short readme.htm in the installation directory.


Cheers & Leg Godt


Nils

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Thumbs Up 88516
Posted by: Stan Isachenko - 2012-09-20, 16:51 - Forum: Part Requests - No Replies

http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=88516
You can convert it from LDD. I can't subpart it on segments.( So I ask someone to do this part.

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  Help with parts creation
Posted by: Stan Isachenko - 2012-09-19, 19:10 - Forum: Parts Authoring - Replies (20)

I need help with this part. Please redo condlines and edges. I am not well with edger toolSmile



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