I just noticed that in the forums some roles are displayed for some users, for example:

Orion Pobursky
Website Administrator
LDraw.org Steering Committee Member
James Jessiman Memorial Award Recipient

That's nice, as it gives the readers and posters more context information of the poster.

However, I am missing that all part authors do not get such an attribute:
There should be an attribute "Part Author".

While adding this, I'd like to request a little cleanup. The attributes are not coherent currently:
some have a leading "LDraw.org", some don't. So for example one attribute reads
"Website Administrator", and not "Ldraw.org Website Administrator",
and the other reads
"LDraw.org Steering Committee Member" and not "Steering Committee Member".

As everything which happens on this site automatically and impliticly is ldraw.org stuff,
it is not necessary to precede each Attribute with "Ldraw.org ...".

So I suggest removing that prefix from all attributes.

I think the file attachment rules are too restrictive. At http://forums.ldraw.org/showthread.php?t...29#pid2129 I wanted to attach a list of files. I didn't want to embed the list in the message for readability reasons, yet attaching "colour_metallic.txt" was not allowed.

Is it possible to allow .txt files to be attached?

I want to take multiple models in one file (6 of this, 3 of that, etc) and save a big old master parts list that doesn't break it down by model, so that I can buy them all at once. This is a bunch of miniature game pieces that someone designed, and I want to buy enough to play a game with. The problem is that when I save a parts list, it's just one of every model and none of the parts are consolidated (lots of similar parts). Also, I would have to go in and manually edit the parts list by multiplying pieces by how many I need, ad nauseam. I was doing this, until 3/4 of the way through I realized I'd marked a color improperly, and had to generate all new parts lists. Can anyone help me out?

For simplicity's sake, let's say I have 50 different models.
I need 6 of some, 3 of some, 4 of some, and 5 of some others, while only 1 of a few of them. I want a master parts list, all consolidated, that I can use for ordering parts.

Aloha,

I have added to Jim DeVona's ldraw.plist, found in TextWrangler LDraw Kit (see below). So that it would do syntax highlighting in BBEdit.

Save it in text file, named ldraw.plist in

~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Language Modules/ldraw.plist

I would like to know how to get it to do code folding on the steps of an LDraw file.

Mahalo,

Ramón

A while back I rerendered the LDraw brick as I needed a large version of it (found here). As you can see I've now used this new version to generate a new version of the main logo as well as a possible forum logo.

These were generated in GIMP which means that I can upload the source file to the website so that anyone can edit it with free software. The brick is also released under a Creative Commons license. I think this is important.

Anyway, I'm no graphic designer so I thought I'd see what people thought about these images, and the change to a full open source design framework.

Tim

Hello all,
I'm new to the forums and digital lego drawing and have a question regarding the ray tracing side of things.

I've installed the latest all in one installer from ldraw.org. I then downloaded l3p and l3pAdd-on. Upon running LP3Add-On GUI, it asks for the path for LEdit.exe. I'm trying to follow the ldraw.org tutorial, but I can't seem to find where this file goes. Is this the older dos program, of which doesn't get installed in the modern Windows installer? Is there a work around for this?

I tried to open the irunin.dat file to see if I could trick it, but it looks like it's not completely text.

MLCad, LEODraw, etc. all run fine - I'm running Windows 7 64 bit.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Personally I find it really frustrating that the LDraw.org logo in the top left corner links to the main website and not the forums. But I suspect that its 'natural destination' might vary depending on who you are.

So I'd like to take a poll of people here to see what users think. When it comes to UI issues like this I figure the users are collectively more accurate than the webmasters.

So please vote. I've left it open indefinitely but the sooner we get a bunch of votes (and a trend) the sooner decisions can be made one way or another.

Tim

A cursory scan didn't turn up 'Minifig Torso with Jacket, Zippered Pockets, and Classic Space Logo Pattern' (973px423).  Request that this part be authored.  I have a reasonably high-res scan if it would be of use.

Here are the files for:

• Cafe Corner
  
• Green Grocer
  
• Market Street
  

Attached Files

  10182-07.mpd (Size: 258.81 KB / Downloads: 7)
  10190-07.mpd (Size: 99.76 KB / Downloads: 6)
  10185-09.ldr (Size: 138.31 KB / Downloads: 7)

I am building the 5763 Dune Hopper.

In step 16, it says to insert a rubber band like so:


Then in step 20, it says to stretch the rubber band like so:


Creating the rubber bands themselves shouldn't be a problem, I can just use LSynth. The problem arises when I need to stretch the rubber bands.

As far as I can tell, there is no provision for modifying or removing parts already in a model.

My first thought was to simply insert the rubber bands for the first time in step 20, but if you were to build this model with real legos, inserting them in step 20 would be impossible because they are attached to 4623 ("Plate 1 x 2 with Arm") which has a plate at the top of the arm, thus making the closed loop of the rubber band inside the closed loop formed by the bricks... it can't simply be slipped in.

What is the proper way of accomplishing this?



Also... How do we remove parts from steps in general. If my memory serves from helping a friend build the 8053 Mobile Crane it requires you to build an assembly to place on the axles of the vehicle while building the transmission to ensure that the wheels are all aligned while you assemble the transmission, and then remove the wheel-alignment assembly, and re-use those parts later. It would be easy enough to simply ignore the assembly entirely as it is not part of the final model, but I believe people should be able to build a real-lego model from the steps in the models in the OMR the same exact way as if they were following the actual instruction booklet.