LDraw Pattern Creator/ LDPattern Help

[Christian Neumann]

As far as i know, you can't create them directly. LPC uses Philo's Rectifier tool to merge adjacent triangles to quads under some circumstances, when exporting to .dat. Personally i don't like that, because i have no control of this "optimization". It works fine on flat patterns (e.g. torso, flag), but if you project the result onto a formed surface, these quads possibly are broken back to triangles. For me that's a reason to use LDPattern, although it has only very basic functionality and some bugs...