Tool to combine/reduce the number of parts?

[Lasse Deleuran]

I am creating a large mosaic image. Unfortunately, the largest plate in MLCAD's generator is 2x4, and the largest in LDDMC is 2x2. So this large mosaic has many many small parts. Is there a tool that can, say, combine two 2x4 plates to create one 4x4 plate, etc.? Thank you.

Mike

In LDDMC under "Settings" -> "Export" you can set it to substitute parts according to your "part_types.txt" file. Enabling this will cause the generated LDraw file to use larger plates when possible.

If you really want to just build with 4x4 plates, then I can add that as an option to "construction techniques" as well.

You can also create the mosaic with 1x1 plates and simply use 4x4 plates when building. It all depends on your use case.