Bricksmith and Allen Smith

[Eugen]

Regarding github, Bricksmith is already there, twice! I've been using GIT to track the official SVN repository for years, so when I found I had to build on an older Mac that I don't use to model, I got fed up and used github to 'port' the code over.

https://github.com/bsupnik/bricksmith

Turns out I'm not the only Bricksmith developer to do that - Robin beat me to it. :-)

https://github.com/robinmacharg/Bricksmith

From what I can tell, there's nothing stopping us from doing this (or releasing binaries), as the code is under a BSD license.  I would like to get Allen's blessing on a binary release though; Bricksmith is his brain child.

I forked Bricksmith to GitHub as well but haven't done anything with it. I'll abandon that fork in favor of yours.

I would duplicate from my previous comment, that Michael Gale also is working on his own fork of Bricksmith, so as for 2024 LeoCAD is not the only actively developed LDraw editor for Mac.

• https://github.com/michaelgale/BricksmithApp
  • support for dark mode theme
    
  • axis lines from origin in all viewers
    
  • different LDraw syntax highlights in model tree view (with differentiation of submodels vs. parts)
    
  • different style for parts browser
    
  • menu command to insert step at current step (rather than append to the end)
    
  • navigating the tree view in step mode also changes the current step
    
  • almost all math computation converted to double precision floating point
    
  • favorite colour list added to colour picker inspector with a button to mark favorite colours