LDraw.org 2024-05 Parts Update Now Available

[Orion Pobursky]

The 2024-05 LDraw Parts Update has been released. This update adds 609 new files to the core library, including 365 new parts and 31 new primitives.

Thanks are due to all the part authors who created or corrected parts for this release. The small, but dedicated, band of reviewers also play an important role in keeping files moving through the Parts Tracker and deserve just as much credit. This update wouldn't have been possible without their dedication and attention to detail.

You can preview the new parts in 2024-05 here, and download the zip-file update or Windows install package here.

Thank you to all the testers and parts authors who continue giving feedback on the new PT software. This project would not be what it is without your help.

Orion Pobursky
LDraw.org Parts Library Admin

[Jaco van der Molen]

Nice! Very nostalgic feeling on this one.

[Johannes Schauer]

Thank you for this update which made "Brick 1 x  3" available under CC-BY 4.0. Here is an updated list of top-missing parts sorted by aggregated popularity according to how often they are used in models from bricklink.com.

Code:

  parts/3068b.dat   14470 ['87580', '6253']
  p/beamhol2.dat    9238 ['32294', '2905', '32017', '11126', '32250', '32251', '11478', '32449', '2825']
  parts/96910.dat   7065 ['99563']
  parts/s/41770s01.dat 7046 ['41769', '41770']
  p/wpin2a.dat      4714 ['2926', '4488', '2484c01', '30277', '65202', '2441', '21445', '18892', '24055', '4600', '30278c01']
  parts/s/54383s01.dat 3625 ['54383', '54384']
  parts/3873.dat    2503 ['15379']
  parts/s/3678bs01.dat 2417 ['3678b']
  parts/s/92947s00.dat 2220 ['92947']
  parts/s/87747s00.dat 2127 ['87747']
  parts/s/87544s01.dat 1906 ['87544']
  parts/s/3038s01.dat 1883 ['3038']
  parts/3711.dat    1765 ['14696']
  parts/s/30363s01.dat 1656 ['30363']
  parts/s/3648s01.dat 1617 ['24505', '46224c01', '3648b', '6573', '3648a']
  parts/s/3648s02.dat 1513 ['24505', '3648a', '3648b']
  parts/s/30364s01.dat 1479 ['30364', '54671', '47975', '30365']
  parts/s/43898s01.dat 1462 ['43898']
  parts/s/48170s01.dat 1413 ['48170', '48171', '48169']
  parts/s/48170s08.dat 1297 ['48170', '47452', '47431', '47432', '47454', '48171']

The first column has the part that is blocking all parts in the list at the end of each line. The number in the second column is the cumulative popularity of the parts in the list. So according to this data, the top missing part is "Plate  2 x  2 with Groove with 1 Centre Stud".

The remaining parts more and more look like "niche" parts. I'm tempted to drop the non-free ldraw-parts package in Debian and just continue maintaining the ldraw-parts package only containing CC-BY 4.0 licensed parts in Debian "main".

Thank you!

[Roland Melkert]

...... available under CC-BY 4.0.......
parts/3068b.dat 

How would you even remake eg 3068b, you'll just end up with the same two lines?

[Orion Pobursky]

How would you even remake eg 3068b, you'll just end up with the same two lines?

As long as those same 2 lines are arrived at without referring to the original file. Is it ridiculous? Yes. Is it necessary? Also, yes.

[Travis Cobbs]

As long as those same 2 lines are arrived at without referring to the original file. Is it ridiculous? Yes. Is it necessary? Also, yes.

Actually, the quad could start at any point, so somebody doing it from scratch wouldn't necessarily even produce the exactly same file. If you compare 3068b with 3069b, you will see that 3069b chose a different point as the first point in its quad. (3068b starts at -X/-Z, while 3069b starts at +X/-Z.) Since the quad has to be CCW, the only thing an author can choose is which point to start with, but there are 4 options for that, and the fact that these two parts use two different options means that there doesn't appear to be a standard for which one to pick.

[N. W. Perry]

As long as those same 2 lines are arrived at without referring to the original file. Is it ridiculous? Yes. Is it necessary? Also, yes.

Not disputing the necessity, but definitely agree with the ridiculous. If two people can independently create exactly the same file without referring to one another, that's pretty much, by definition, the opposite of intellectual property.

Actually, the quad could start at any point, so somebody doing it from scratch wouldn't necessarily even produce the exactly same file. If you compare 3068b with 3069b, you will see that 3069b chose a different point as the first point in its quad. (3068b starts at -X/-Z, while 3069b starts at +X/-Z.) Since the quad has to be CCW, the only thing an author can choose is which point to start with, but there are 4 options for that, and the fact that these two parts use two different options means that there doesn't appear to be a standard for which one to pick.

That would be about as much of a creative distinction as a phone book that alphabetized by first name rather than last. Actually, less.

[Orion Pobursky]

If two people can independently create exactly the same file without referring to one another, that's pretty much, by definition, the opposite of intellectual property.

I don't disagree but since copyright is a civil matter and neither I nor the organization have the money to prove this in court I'm failing somewhat safe.

[N. W. Perry]

I don't disagree but since copyright is a civil matter and neither I nor the organization have the money to prove this in court I'm failing somewhat safe.

Oh, I get it. I'm not advocating for anything, just amused by the ramifications in some of these cases.