I was wondering if there is a utility that can generate a cylinder of a given radius, centered on the line between two points. If I had this would be so helpful. The cylinder result would come out as an n-ncyli.dat file. Generated from the first point with the same orientation as the line.
Here is the "answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything": LPC 1.4.2
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:
You can deselect objects with the selection rectangle while pressing CTRL.
You can copy+paste the transformation matrices or vertex coordinates with 1 click.
You can toggle the visibility of the BG image (with Ctrl+B).
You can use a shortkey to dis-/enable the grid (Ctrl+G) / axis label (Ctrl+L).
The previous mode will be restored after closing the preview.
You can use a recent file list.
The French language file is improved.
Fixed bugs from 1.4.1 and older:
The file loader crashes because of side-effects from 1.3.8.
Zoom with +/- does not work in preview mode.
The program crashes when a single group was created, deleted and saved.
Hi there... I'm working on designing a Graveyard to go with the Monster Fighters Haunted House.
I'm using the "Gate" that came with the set... but LDraw seems to be missing the curved gate pieces.
I'd appreciate them getting onto someones "to do" list!
95229 - Bar 1 x 8 x 3 - 1 x 8 x 4 Curved (Image)
x230 - Door 1 x 4 x 9 Arched with Bars and Three Studs (Image)
I became slightly confused today. There are parts that I pulled off your website many years ago. Now it seems as if they don’t exist. They are parts for the Train Track 9v Points. They were authored by Soete Ludo. I submitted one thinking it was an update. Only it was treated as if I authored it. Could you please explain?
This is the part list:
2864.dat
2866.dat
s\2864s01.dat
Hello Travis,
I just discovered that sometimes LDView creates syntactically invalid .pov files on export.
The problem seems to be triggered when you're rendering a file from your LDRAW "models" folder
which references a primitive located in a folder called "48" inside that "models" folder.
What happens in that case is that the resulting .pov file contains a line
Note the leading "48/" in the identifier, which is illegal.
Note that LDView seems to substitute the substring _slash_ for / already,
but that seems to fail in some cases.
I've attached my test file plus its .pov output file here for your reference.
I'm trying to work out the command line parameters to render a snapshots of different models files.
I want a fixed camera position regardless of the model size or location. I've tried all manner of combinations of -ModelSize -Autocrop -FOV -ZoomToFit -ModelCenter etc. etc. but cannot seem find the right combination.
I thought the -cg45,45,1000 would do it (lat,long,distance) but this seems to get different results depending on the size/location of the model in question.
I would like to see Bricklink parts 3003pb035 (2x2 brick with number 1) to 3003pb065 (2x2 brick with number 31) created. At first they don't need to be accurate.
They can be found in set 853195 Brick Calendar.
I've decided to wipe the dust of my LD4DStudio project and spend some time on creating a maintenance update for it next month or so.
Although I do have some issues collected already, I would welcome any additional issues people are having with the 1.2 version, so I can fix as much as possible in the new version.
If you not familiar with LD4DStudio, feel free to take a look at it here:
I am curious if any other frequent Bricksmith users can confirm encountering the crashing bugs reported here, especially the one that occurs when closing documents, which has been a real thorn in my side the past few months: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_i...tid=762990 (If so, please consider commenting on the sourceforge bug tracker as well.) Thanks.
I've released a maintenance update for the 1.1 version of LDCad.
Do note, an uninstall of a pre 1.1 version is highly recommended (windows only). It isn't necessary for an >= 1.1 beta 1 upgrade though.
This release features the first native 64 bit Linux version. Do note the 64bit version is some what untested. As a result it might be less stable then the 32 bit variant. If you got any issues please report them here or directly to me (contact info is on site).
I also noticed the 'out of the box' vga drivers for AMD cards might have issues rendering the edge lines correctly. This issue seems to be a specific oss driver bug because the software mesa and proprietary AMD driver render everything as it should be.
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