(2022-04-01, 19:19)Orion Pobursky Wrote: If you are looking to get into authoring, there are quite a few Constraction/Bionicle parts on digital-bricks.de that haven't been processed for the library. Note that these pulls from LDD are quite rough and may require extensive editing to get to Library standards. You are right in that Constraction/Bionicle are are not easy to model, hence the conspicuous absences of these parts from the library.
For primitives, if you can make a case for a need, pretty much anything goes.
For optimization tools, have a look at DATHeader. It's the tool most of us use to combine triangles into quads.
The issue is the fact that a lot of high quality parts exist already, but having been traditionally 3d modeled, are not up to spec with LDraw. Is there a way to take these models and introduce primitives where connection points exist without remodeling the whole thing?
Also, I'll definitely want to raise a few questions regarding the next spec revision. Apologies if this is a stupid question, but where can I go to propose additions to the standard? I'm new to this forum, and having a bit of a tricky time navigating it!