(2020-11-03, 21:34)N. W. Perry Wrote: Honestly, you could create a simple part using your computer's basic text editor (and it would be instructive to do so). Definitely read Willy's tutorial—he uses MLCad for the examples, but that program is somewhat deprecated—as well as the documentation at ldraw.org itself.
The "gold standard" parts authoring program is LDPartEditor, but it doesn't play well with my Mac system somehow. So the first parts I authored from scratch were done in LDDesignPad (a text editor with some extra features specific to LDraw) and viewed in LDView, back and forth with manual reloading. :-)
Ok. Where can I get this LDDesignPad program?