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available colours of Lego parts in LDcad - Joscha - 2018-03-21 Hi Maybe this is a very beginner question ![]() Is there an easy way in LDcad to see/switch to the fabricated colours? Regards Joscha RE: available colours of Lego parts in LDcad - Roland Melkert - 2018-03-21 (2018-03-21, 9:15)Joscha Wrote: Is there an easy way in LDcad to see/switch to the fabricated colours? There is currently no filter on colors based on the current (selected) part or something like that. However this is a feature I'm considering for 2.0 I don't remember MLCad offering this option though, it would need some sort of reference db so if mlcad has/had this feature it might be vastly out of date by now. RE: available colours of Lego parts in LDcad - Philippe Hurbain - 2018-03-22 Pretty sure MLCad doesn't have this function, AFAIK LDD is the only CAD editor able to do that (maybe stud.io does too?) RE: available colours of Lego parts in LDcad - Joscha - 2018-03-22 (2018-03-21, 21:11)Roland Melkert Wrote:(2018-03-21, 9:15)Joscha Wrote: Is there an easy way in LDcad to see/switch to the fabricated colours? You and Philippe are right. I tried to find out what I was thinking about MLcad but w/o success. Maybe at that time when I started using MLcad I misunderstood the colour table as the colours in which the part was ever manufactured. But what does it mean practically? Do I have to go for an internet search to find out which colours are available for a specific part? RE: available colours of Lego parts in LDcad - Roland Melkert - 2018-03-22 (2018-03-22, 14:09)Joscha Wrote: But what does it mean practically? Do I have to go for an internet search to find out which colours are available for a specific part? There are the 'physical color' parts but that subset of the library has been abandoned as far I understand it. In general I think most people using LDraw know which colors parts come in from experience. RE: available colours of Lego parts in LDcad - Milan Vančura - 2018-03-23 (2018-03-22, 22:33)Roland Melkert Wrote: There are the 'physical color' parts but that subset of the library has been abandoned as far I understand it. Pragmatically said: maintaining such a database is a huge task, not a "night hobby of one person". So a chance there is such a project on internet but we do not know about it is, approximately, zero. For this reason we have only two options: connect to someone big having such a database (Bricklink, LEGO) or not to have this feature. RE: available colours of Lego parts in LDcad - Joscha - 2018-03-23 (2018-03-22, 22:33)Roland Melkert Wrote: In general I think most people using LDraw know which colors parts come in from experience. I was afraid that you will say this. Unfortunately my experience of brick colours is from about 30 years ago. I know axles are black, pins w/o friction are grey and pins w/ friction are black. Then there are blue, white, grey and black bricks ![]() But it's not a big thing. It would have been nice though to have this information available right away. But I understand that this is a huge task and maybe not worth it. |