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Hi everybody !!!

After more than 2 months of inactivity, here is my new release of the application. Hope it worth the awaiting!

A lot of new functionality added in model management this time. You will find them in Groups context menu and in File menu.
Read the following: You won't miss this !
Available as always from http://sr3dbuilder.altervista.org/

Please feedback for malfunctioning and hints, especially from registered users...

Sergio

0.7.1.5 - Changes to previous version (2012.06.12)

Fixed
- Instruction Miner should now work faster and with a lot of less bugs
- Showing/Hiding the "Model" group with no parts in it causes a crash
- Importing model causes no longer Pause Instructions lost
- Many group management bugs fixed
- AutoOrient option sometimes does not correctly aling grid

Changed
- Importing a model causes a NEW group with the model file name being created
- Some less used Selection Option are now grouped in a dropdown button
- Hierarchic hide/showing model is now faster (and safer)
- The Instruction Miner window is now resizeable

Added
- Save a group/subgroup to model file (registered version)
- Importing model with groups
- Analyze a single group/subgroup into Instruction Miner
- Clone a group/subgroup (registered version)
- Allow the Instruction Miner to show only parts above your curson allowing a better model analysis
(registered version)
- Group Reference Brick to allow quick positioning/connection of a group/subgroup
- You can now move Groups and SubGroup across the Group tree
- Group tracking while hovering groups tree
- Added <CTRL-G> accelerator to show Group tree
- Select parts by shape
- Save your current selection to a new model (registered version)
- Exporting to .DAT functionality including definition for Flex parts.
Notice: a very big file is generated, but you can open it from lDView to create the .pov file for POV-Ray
rendering. The flexs have BAD behavior in lDView but will render fine in PovRay

A manual update will follows in next weeks. Just the time to write it !

Trying to use LPub for my newest instructions, but the submodels in the MLCad
file are not displaying. It only loads the steps for the first model. The submodels
are listed in the drop down menu, but I cannot access them to either add to the
instructions or display them. When I choose one it loads the file properties
on the right, but the instructions display does not change. Really need to know
how to work around this.

Hello,

i Just discovered Lpub a few weeks ago, and it is quite an impressive program, I have been working on a set of instructions, but for some of the steps, the parts are all Black, and it is hard to differentiate between the new parts and the existing parts. Is there a way to Grey out the previous steps bricks in the latest version of LPUB (4.0.0.0.11) I am using LDView as my preferred renderer, if it makes a difference.

Thanks in Advance
Jeff VW

http://peeron.com/inv/parts/x405


(Fixed link added pic. w.)

I was wondering: why is the technic beam orientation the way it is?

Looking at real life models and default grid stepping in mlcad etc, it seems more logical to have the axis holes horizontally.

Just wondering.

Hey,

Here is the new LPC 1.3.7.


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 use the sticker generator for rectangular sticker templates.
  
• "Unificator.exe" is included in the post process.
  
• The post process is customizable.
  
• You can load/​save the colour toolbar settings.
  
• The 2D engine is improved and faster.
  
• The colours from the colour replacer are sorted.
  
• The superfast triangulation is improved.
  
• You can show vertex information of primitive/​group vertices by clicking on it in vertex mode.
  
• A dynamic primitive list "Primitives.cfg" is stored in the application directory.
  

• The LPC-Unificator creates triangles with same points.
  
• Primitive matrix manipulation enables "Cut", "Copy" and "Paste" when "Add Vertex" is enabled.
  
• A primitive is movable in the vertex/​triangle-mode.
  
• The template editor does not read from the "\template" directory.
  
• LPC crashes if you take a hex-colour from a primitive/​group.
  

For some reason I have lost all the colours in MLCad. No matter what I do they're missing.
Nothing happens when I try to load the colours inside MLCad. I think it all started when I tried mlcad 3.4
I'm now gone back to 3.3
I tried to delete mlcad.cfg. I've tried to reset it by deleting the registry settings in Regedit.
I've tried ColourManager. It won't run on my pc.

There is a file mlcad.log in my mlcad folder. In it I can see that it can't find ldconfig.ldr

Quote:Error loading color information from 'C:\Program Files (x86)\LDraw\ldconfig_English.ldr'!
Error loading color information from 'C:\Program Files (x86)\LDraw\ldconfig.ldr'!
Using internal color configuration!

Attached Files

  MLCad.log.txt (Size: 1.87 KB / Downloads: 0)

Daniel sent me recently a bunch of Star Wars figures to scan and convert to LDraw. Unfortunately I am short of time presently, so I am posting here the raw meshes, hoping that someone could help me doing LDraw conversion (scanning parts is relatively fast in comparison!).

Here is the first one, 30371 Gungan head. This zip contains the raw mesh in .obj format, and a conversion to LDraw so that anybody can see it with usual tools. One side of the scan is not very good, but since the head is symmetrical it should be OK.
To do:
- straighten the mesh (it is rotated, and needs to be aligned with XYZ axis). Note that the obj seems upside down, this is because of inverted Y axis in LDraw. After conversion to LDraw it will be fine!
- Cut the stem under head (I leave it in the scan because it helps for mesh alignment).
- cleaning of the mesh needs to be done (smoothing smooth areas, sharpening edges)
I use Meshmixer for these tasks.
- Reduce triangle count. I have already reduced mesh to 100000 triangles, but final LDraw head needs to be reduced again to 3000..5000 triangles. I use Meshlab for that.
- Export the result in stl format (ascii encoding) and convert to LDraw with stl2dat (raw mode).

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Admin edit:
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