As many of you know, I've been working on an online LEGO Parts Guide as part of my brickarchitect.com website.  I have recently announced that I am planning to turn it into a printed book as well, which I hope will become a valuable resource within the LEGO Community.

One of my goals in refining the online guide and preparing it for a print edition is to ensure my part naming strategy is thoughtful, consistent, and aligned with terms used throughout the community.  It's also important to recognize that the shorter part names I use are not meant to be used in isolation, but rather to always be shown next to an image of the part.  (The website also allows me to define a longer version of the name which helps with search functionality.)

In order to create consistent naming conventions, I recently prepared a first draft of the glossary, abbreviations, and naming conventions I will be using in the guide. 

I wanted to share it with this group for two reasons:

1. I would genuinely love your feedback on the approach I'm taking.
   
2. I wonder if there is a similar styleguide for naming parts on LDraw.  (If not, maybe this document would be a helpful starting point in creating one.)
   

Hello,

Thanks again for creating my previous requested parts.

I'd like to request Friends Fawn 13393 for Friends OMR project.
https://forums.ldraw.org/thread-24146.html

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/cat...#T=C&C=150

I've found a raw mesh in digital-bricks
http://www.digital-bricks.de/en/index.ph...part=13393
but clean-up and split patternable surfaces would be highly appreciated.
I'll try to make printed patterns, so the part body is sufficient.

Thanks in advance,
Takeshi

This tile is used on all the new F1 cars for the City Line.

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The pattern is the same for all of the colors. I am not sure how that gets handled on the parts side but I would like to request this gets made. 

Thanks in advance

Hello: I divided part 66237, file from digital-bricks.de, for and to help Gerald Lasser (because is the author of the unofficial part). Due to respect of authoring I choice to not interfere in the work of others.
Attached are the raw parts (only scaled).

Attached Files

  66237s01.dat (Size: 110.42 KB / Downloads: 5)
  66237s02.dat (Size: 92.38 KB / Downloads: 5)
  66237s03.dat (Size: 44.6 KB / Downloads: 5)

Hello,

I have always been confused about how I should update the library. I typically use LDCad and LPub3D with LDView for quick viewing. 

Is there a "best practice" to keep both the Official and Unofficial libraries up to date? 

Additionally I have dozens of custom parts I use for train wheels and other details in my MOCs and I feel like I dont quite understand where to put those. I currently have a "Custom_Parts" folder with a sub "p" and "s" folder for parts that need that. 

Thanks in advance.

Today I released version 1.5.0 of ConvertToLDraw.

https://github.com/Nexusnui/Convert-To-L...tag/v1.5.0

Changelog:

New Features:

• function for generating outlines(LDraw linetype 2 only)
  
• subpart tabs are movable and reflect the order subparts have in the converted LDraw file
  

• loading animation in preview
  

• new edit part area in "Main Part Settings" tab, for edits, that apply to all subparts
  
• "Parent Part Settings" renamed to "Part Metadata"
  

Hello

This is my first dabble into the world of LDraw so my apologies in advance for any errors - please be gentle.

I enjoy creating LEGO sets in Studio - and I recently did so with set 75405 (Home One Starcruiser).

The imported LEGO set model in Studio is missing 6179pb256 and so I created it:



If I needed this it stands to reason others may also. My limited understanding is that the part list for Studio is, ultimately, based off LDraw. 

So I submit here as an .dat file for anyone to use accordingly.

Grateful for any [constructive] feedback/redirection required.

Attached Files

  6179pb256.zip (Size: 1.98 MB / Downloads: 5)

I know you said not to answer in here but is there any change of a description being included?

What do one need to take into account regarding transparent parts?

This thread is just for Information and a monthly collection of new parts released.

And can serve as a source to author the part for the tracker!

Those parts are NOT corrected for orientation and origin

Do NOT answer to this thread.

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