(2025-01-10, 20:55)Gerald Lasser Wrote: Use an Asset Browser to look for the mesh, export the mesh as obj. And then use obj2dat to convert it.
In all seriousness, couldn't the LDraw project automate that process and add thousands of (provisional) parts to the database overnight? It's really remarkable that The LEGO Group is giving us the meshes for almost every new part!
Automating that process could benefit the LDraw community greatly, allowing the LDraw community to use it's limited resources to focus on fixing bugs and creating 3d models for vintage parts. It might require evolving the 'good enough' criteria for inclusion in the parts database, or introducing a middle tier of 'provisional' parts that are 'unofficial' but installed automatically as part of app installer, or by making it easier to download unofficial/provisional parts within the LDview tool or even as part of the installer.
It's likely this has been discussed in the past, but maybe with a track record of TLG giving us good quality meshes we should rethink the strategy going forward?
---Tom