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

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 ).

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

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

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?

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.

1. Remove the following sentence from the File Name portion of the LDraw Files section:
   

   Quote:For reasons of cross-platform and cross-(programming) language portability, the use of white space characters (such as space and tab) in filenames is strongly discouraged.

   
   
2. Update the sentence immediately following the above to read as follows:
   

   Quote:Special characters, such as &, #, |, and ?, should be avoided as they may also cause cross-platform issues and create problems when used in URLs.

   Note: the only change to the existing sentence is the removal of the word "Other" from the beginning, and the capitalization of "Special".
   

When using
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I would prefer the system to default to using

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instead of

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because [quote] preserves bbcode whereas the current method makes no guarantee (see this post and others).

Also, reformatting is rather tedious, if you want to quote just a portion of the text, each line could potentially need to be modified in order to justify the text, and any text decorations are applied as they are not intended to be:
> this text has
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Using [quote] would require less work for posters wishing to quote specially formatted text, and

Jean-Philippe Wrote:

Jean-Philippe Wrote:Personally, I think it looks better, wouldn't you agree?

Why yes, I would. (They can also be easily nested.)

When I try to set the LDraw dir in LDView the file dialog pops up for half a second, then LDView closes. I have reinstalled the .deb package several times and a still get this problem. What do I do? In my mind LDView is the best viewer out there I need to get it up and running. I tried using the built in function to download the parts library, but when the file dialog for that pops up, LDView still crashes. :-(

When using LPUB, and there is a ROTSTEP, is there any way to have LPUB add arrows indicating the rotation, or is my best bet to get some arrow images do the "Add image" function on those steps?

Thanks!

Chris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-LSlHdBv4E