I would like to see 41897.
Due to the fact, that I don't own this tire, I can not give a try to create it by myself :-(

Thanks

Max

edit: title changed

1. Is it possible to extract patterns out of LDD files, and if yes, how?
2. Is there a program like LDView for LDD files (so if 1 is answered with no, I could look at the patterned parts, make screenshots and use these as templates).

(coming back from http://forums.ldraw.org/showthread.php?t...92#pid3992
and from BlueBrick software which needs a unique URL of rendered images of official parts

I just noticed that we might be wasting disk space on our peeron.com / ldraw.org server unnecessarily:

We seem to currently host all images duplicatedly, compare these:

http://media.peeron.com/ldraw/images/1/u9234c01.png
http://www.ldraw.org/library/official/im...234c01.png

I think that for rendered images, just 1 instance should be sufficient.
That instance should be a ldraw.org address,
as that is the official part source, and so should be for their images.

I think peeron.com could drop their own renderings then.

Is there somewhere documentation on where official images are located?
For example, are there other renderings available, different than 100 pixels wide?

It also appears to me that the recent out of disk space problems
were caused by the renderings of the new part files:
You can check that by seeing that an image
http://www.ldraw.org/library/official/im...234c01.png
exists and has been created on the server, but another one
http://www.ldraw.org/library/official/im...00/992.png
is missing.

I also feel the color 16 renderings
http://www.ldraw.org/library/official/im...234c01.png
missing.

It appears to me that the image generation has been halted somewhere inmidst the generation
of images for update 2012-01.

For efficiency, I suggest to put all the images to a separate server, e.g.
renderedparts.ldraw.org
, thus, other pages downloading these will not impact the performance of the parts tracker negatively.

Also, the generation of these images should be done on a different machine
and simply be uploaded to the server, instead of generating them directly on the server.

To sum this up:
(1) shall we get of the duplicates?
(2) can the images for 2012-01 be completed, please?
(3) what's the official URL for them?
(4) shall we move the images to a different server?
(5) shall the image generation process be put onto a different machine than the web server for them?

When I'm viewing a model in LDView, there are always gaps between the parts. There are no gaps in MLCad, only when I view models (not only mine, but every model I tried) in LDView. The problem is, that LDView exports these gaps to POV-Ray, too. Is there an error in LDView, or ist something else in my software?

Please vote on the proposal below. Please modify the Subject to include your name and vote, in addition to giving your vote in the text.

Quote:Line Termination

All lines in the file must use the standard DOS/Windows line termination of <CR><LF> (carriage return/line feed). The last two bytes of the file must be <CR><LF>. (In other words, there must be a <CR><LF> line terminator at the end of the last line in the file.)

Quote:It is recommended that all LDraw-compliant programs also be capable of reading files with the standard Unix line termination of <LF> (line feed).

Chris,

I'd like to see "Canvas" added to the !CATEGORY list.

Thx,

w.

Chris,

there are just 4 NonCA parts left. What is their status and when can we expect to get rid off them?

w.

Does anyone know which brown to use for the belt? No brown color I tried fits. How about using custom colors in LDraw files?

The peeron server that hosts the LDraw Parts Tracker is out of disc space. As yet I don't know whether this is something to do with LDraw or the high level of peeron activity we have seen recently.

For now I have suspended access to the Parts Tracker to avoid submit and review failures.

I'll post here when things are fixed.

When I tried to make airplane, I found this part was missing until now.

http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/54097

I hope this part would be released as soon as possible.

Thanks for reading.

KWON