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  Part 87580 Naming
Posted by: Orion Pobursky - 2011-12-05, 4:51 - Forum: Parts Authoring - Replies (5)

Why is part 87580 called Tile 2 x 2 with Groove and 1 Stud? I feel it should be Plate 2 x 2 with 1 Stud to be consistent with Plate 1 x 2 with 1 Stud.

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  LEGO bike head badge
Posted by: Jim DeVona - 2011-12-04, 20:24 - Forum: Off-Topic - Replies (3)

I've posted this before elsewhere, but I thought this crowd might like it too. Using SketchUp I designed a 4x6 brick with a smooth concave back as a head badge for my commuter bike, and had it printed by Shapeways. It's not perfectly compatible with LEGO - fit is a little loose, unless a regular 4x6 plate is attached, as shown below - but not bad for a first try.

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Anybody have similar hood ornaments, etc.?

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  Leading or trailing white space characters in file names
Posted by: Willy Tschager - 2011-12-04, 16:30 - Forum: Standards Board - Replies (51)

Since the whitespace is out of the door I'd like resume this:

Travis Cobbs Wrote:In addition to the above, I also feel we should codify MLCad's behavior, since it appears to be the de-facto standard. This can be done by adding the following sentence to the end of that paragraph in the spec:

Proposed LDraw Specification Addition Wrote:Furthermore, filenames must not contain leading or trailing white space characters.

However, if there's any disagreement about the above at all, then I think we should vote on the first two changes immediately, and temporarily table discussion of leading and trailing whitespace in the same way I'm proposing we temporarily table discussion of Roland's point.

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  Re-centering model (in Bricksmith)
Posted by: Ramón Figueroa-Centeno - 2011-12-03, 22:50 - Forum: LDraw Editors and Viewers - Replies (10)

Aloha,

Is there any way that I can change the origin's coordinates in Bricksmith (or somewhere else)? I have models whose origin is nowhere near where I would like it, so it makes it hard to, for example, rotate them. It would be nice if one could see the coordinate axes and one could manually drag the model relative to them.

Mahalo,

Ramón

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  LDView current version
Posted by: Christoph Mierowski - 2011-12-03, 19:34 - Forum: LDraw Editors and Viewers - Replies (2)

I want to ask, if Version 4.1 of LDView is still the officially current one. - This one has today its second anniversary.....
Will there be a next version?

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  LDraw.org Forum Usage Guidelines and Administrator Policies
Posted by: Orion Pobursky - 2011-12-03, 14:47 - Forum: LDraw.org Announcements - Replies (1)

LDraw.org Forum Usage Guidelines and Administrator Policies

Every forum needs rules in order to maintain some semblance of civility. We try to keep them to a minmum as to encourage the free flow of ideas. These have been around for a while and a link has been posted on the sign up page since August. They have recently been added to so everyone please read. If you ever want to reference them in the future, there is a link at the bottom of every page.

Posts like this are a trend. In an effort to remain as transparent as possible, anytime we change, add, or delete something from these guidelines/policies, we will post a notice like this. Additionally, future posts will quote exactly what changed, including the text before and after the change as appropriate. Since this is the first post of this type, a simple link to the page is sufficient for now.

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  Spaces in filenames no longer discouraged
Posted by: Travis Cobbs - 2011-12-03, 2:43 - Forum: Standards Board - No Replies

As detailed here, the LSC voted to remove the text discouraging spaces in LDraw filenames. The LDraw specification has now been updated accordingly.

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  LDCad 1.0 Beta 2 available (incl Linux version)
Posted by: Roland Melkert - 2011-12-03, 1:02 - Forum: LDraw Editors and Viewers - Replies (14)

Hi all,

2nd beta of my editor is available at

http://www.melkert.net/LDCad

Some fixes (Improved stability, file handling), Some user friendliness improvements and a couple of new dialogs I kinda forgot to add in beta 1 (grid stepping management and LDRaw config file location management).

The biggest addition by far is Linux support. For now it's 32 bit only and some what experimental (distro wise, the application itself has the exact same features as the windows version).

The Linux binary should have very little decencies and runs on 'out of the box' Ubuntu 9.04 and 11.10 (these I test with, everything in between should work too).

Any recent distro should work as long GTK 2.x (Gnome) is available

I'm very interested to know if en on what people can get it to run, so please let me know ether here or directly.

When the application runs it seem to run very well, I edited the 5550 model using the Windows version for the first half and the Linux version for the second half (can you guess where I switched Wink ).

ps: The site itself isn't completely up-to-date yet, I'll fix that this weekend though.

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  LDraw App for iOS
Posted by: Renaud Breard - 2011-12-02, 20:10 - Forum: LDraw Editors and Viewers - Replies (17)

Hello,
My application for iOS (iPad and iPhone running iOS 5 or newer) is in AppStore today. It's a very basic application now, you can view a ldraw file full and step by step. It's called brickView. Files can be loaded from "iTunes files sharing" or from other application (ex : mail, dropbox ...), from safari I have some issues that depend how the web server send the file.
brickView is a free App, development is not my job, and development of brickView is just a hobby. I have developed it because I want to view my ldraw models on my iPad, but there is not app until now for that.
I hope that you have fun with brickView if you try it...

Renaud

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  Admin question
Posted by: Orion Pobursky - 2011-12-02, 18:49 - Forum: Standards Board - Replies (1)

Admin here,

Would it help you guys if I enable the poll module for your forum? Or would you rather stick with the current system of replies?

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