The LDraw.org Steering Committee is pleased to announce that the 2016 James Jessiman Memorial Award (JJMA) recipient is Nils Schmidt.
Like last year the SteerCo reached consensus very fast over the recipient for the this year's James Jessiman Memorial Award.
Nils left his Dark Ages in 2009 when he used the LDraw System of Tools for the first time. Later on, he missed nearly all patterned parts from his favourite space theme UFO (1997–1998). He decided to built them all alone with a complex tool chain involving a commercial 3D editor from a Gaming-IDE, MLCad, SlicerPro and the LDDesignPad.
While he progressed on his apprenticeship as a professional software developer, he developed LDPC - the LD Pattern Creator, nowadays commonly used by part authors all over the world to create patterned LDraw parts.
Also the next program came immediately a standard application for LDraw part authors: LDPE or LDraw Part Editor, a platform independend CAD editor written entirely in Java, which turned a laborious fiddling with various programs into a piece of cake. Suddenly manipulations could be done with the a mouse-click, which previously required complex maths.
More information on the JJMA can be found at: http://www.ldraw.org/article/222.html
Willy Tschager
On behalf of the LDraw.org Steering Committee
Like last year the SteerCo reached consensus very fast over the recipient for the this year's James Jessiman Memorial Award.
Nils left his Dark Ages in 2009 when he used the LDraw System of Tools for the first time. Later on, he missed nearly all patterned parts from his favourite space theme UFO (1997–1998). He decided to built them all alone with a complex tool chain involving a commercial 3D editor from a Gaming-IDE, MLCad, SlicerPro and the LDDesignPad.
While he progressed on his apprenticeship as a professional software developer, he developed LDPC - the LD Pattern Creator, nowadays commonly used by part authors all over the world to create patterned LDraw parts.
Also the next program came immediately a standard application for LDraw part authors: LDPE or LDraw Part Editor, a platform independend CAD editor written entirely in Java, which turned a laborious fiddling with various programs into a piece of cake. Suddenly manipulations could be done with the a mouse-click, which previously required complex maths.
More information on the JJMA can be found at: http://www.ldraw.org/article/222.html
Willy Tschager
On behalf of the LDraw.org Steering Committee
LEGO ergo sum