[LDView] LDView 4.6 Released

[Travis Cobbs]

LDView 4.6 is now available.

You can download this release from the LDView Downloads Page.

The main features of this release are:

• Ability to specify a zip file containing the LDraw library instead of a directory if desired. Point LDView to complete.zip.
  
• Support for https for downloads from ldraw.org.
  

You can see the full Change History here.

[Rene Rechthaler]

Nice! The "download unofficial parts" function works again (due to the https)

[N. W. Perry]

• Ability to specify a zip file containing the LDraw library instead of a directory if desired. Point LDView to complete.zip.
  

It looks like you have to specify both…I tried pointing to the ZIP and deleting the path to the folder, and that led to "Error loading model…" messages. Adding back the directory path fixed it (so I can't be sure whether it's reading from the ZIP or the folder).

[Travis Cobbs]

It looks like you have to specify both…I tried pointing to the ZIP and deleting the path to the folder, and that led to "Error loading model…" messages. Adding back the directory path fixed it (so I can't be sure whether it's reading from the ZIP or the folder).

That's not supposed to happen. Which specific LDView package are you using? (For example, LDView64-4600.exe.) Also, just to confirm, you pointed it to an up-to-date complete.zip?

[N. W. Perry]

That's not supposed to happen. Which specific LDView package are you using?

LDView_4.6.dmg

Also, just to confirm, you pointed it to an up-to-date complete.zip?

Yes, from the recent library update (dated May 5th).

[Travis Cobbs]

LDView_4.6.dmg


Yes, from the recent library update (dated May 5th).

Thanks. I was able to reproduce this. I have no idea how it didn't show up in my earlier testing, but I will be releasing a 4.6.1 patch release fairly soon to correct the problem. For now, you need to specify a directory with parts and p subdirectories in it, but those directories shouldn't need to contain any files.

[Travis Cobbs]

Thanks. I was able to reproduce this. I have no idea how it didn't show up in my earlier testing, but I will be releasing a 4.6.1 patch release fairly soon to correct the problem. For now, you need to specify a directory with parts and p subdirectories in it, but those directories shouldn't need to contain any files.

I had forgotten how I originally intended it to behave. It turns out that the current behavior is (sort of) intentional. It's even documented in LDView's Help.html. So, technically, the bug is that it shouldn't allow you to clear the LDraw directory, since the documentation states that you have to select that so that LDView knows where to put Unofficial downloads. Having said that, I don't feel that the old documented behavior was reasonable, so I will still be releasing a patch release that correctly behaves when no LDraw directory is selected. It will then put the Unofficial directory next to the LDraw zip file.