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Lego parts are little bit flexible and elastic, because it is made of A.B.S. However, CAD part don't consider it yet. I have met this mismatching problem in many models, especially in old technics. Cheers.

I love and recommend SR3D especially for Technic. It's animation function is really fantastic and led me to lego CAD world. Even SR3D will hardly be updated, it's assembling function itself is still enough to be recommended in my opinion. But the most important part is in which interface and commands of any CAD tools you will get a good feeling at the beginning. Recently I try LDcad and get some interest to it's function. If you are a newbie for lego CAD, I recommend SR3D or LDcad rather than LDD. Thanks for reading. Oscar

I am so sorry that Sergio passed away few months ago. You can use SR3D for free, if you had downloaded - official download link is blocked at the moment, but special feature, which means full animation function for registered user, cannot be registered anymore.

NICE WORK +_+ Would you share the tip to make animation by povray like this?

You can ask it at here. :)

This model name is "The Malevolence" and it might be an official model of LEGO according to below links: http://www.fbtb.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2572 http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=33807 I couldn't stop my finger to make this model when I found the instruction. T_T;; It was made by SR3D Builder 0.6.0.9 and rendered by Mega-Pov 1.2.1. It has '0 STEP' and you can see assembling steps through LDview. Error in model : The below parts didn't have correct pattern on it. - 41751.DAT (or x224.DAT) - 3068.DAT - 50955.DAT - 50956.DAT - 30382.DAT You can download at : http://forums.ldraw.org/read.php?17,2444 Enjoy Image Image Image IMPORTANT NOTE: As you can read in the edit note, I converted your images in text links. That's because that images are too big and that violate the rules of the forum. And that's the third time I edit this post, so please pay attention next time. Then resize the images or leave that as text links. Thanks. Calabar.

http://widetent.tistory.com/entry/A-lot-of-LEGO-LDraw-models Here are a lot of models that I have made since 2009. It' over 350 models including many big models, especially Technic, Starwars and Modular Buildings. Anybody want to use it, you can download it at above link. Note that I want to give it 'Free for NON-Commercial Use ONLY' right. :) I hope that these models make someone happy. I have made some serious decision to leave MLCAD, SR3D Builder for 8 months because of personal reason. KWON

Hi, I found a program named Blender today and it's free like POV-RAY. It looks like very powerful rendering and animation capability. Here are the homepage that can download the program, and little bit old version tutorial, and a video tutorials. Is there anybody who have used this program to render LDraw model? I saw the video tutorial part 2 and he recommend to use LeoCAD to convert model to 3DS format, but then it should drop by v2.49 of Blender for latest version Blender because of unknown reason. If I would use LDview to export 3DS file, the latest version of Blender could read my model correctly? In case the model contain only one simple brick, Blender can read, but when I convert my another model 21005 fallingwater, Blender didn't answer, just showing sandglass. I have no idea and newbie using Blender, and any comment will be very helpful. Thanks for reading. :) KWON

Hi, Thanks for comment. But I already tried it as you said. In case that I used 24bit color in BMP file, Sticker Generator worked like below: It showed warning message to ask paletted bmp. It showed incorrect preview. It showed incorrect result file. So I don't think that this problem came from 256 color BMP.

Hi, I have something to ask about making sticker part. This topic is related to MLCAD, LDraw. When I tried to make sticker part, I faced a problem with Sticker Generator. I saved 256 color BMP file from scaned real sticker image like below. I tried to convert it to DAT file by Sticker Generator and got below result image. When I saw this DAT file by LDview 4.1 and MLCAD 3.3, it showed like below. I was disappointed at the result image so much. Corresponding sticker part is here : http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cgi?f=parts/4622303i.dat It shows very high quality like below. It looks like not from BMP image. Here are my questions: 1. Why couldn't I get correct DAT file by Sticker Generator? Did I neglect any important option or anything else? 2. How can I get better quality sticker rather than from BMP file?

Hi, I am sorry for late reply. You can download my model at here or there

Hi, Here is the most huge official technic model ever :) You can download my model at http://pds22.egloos.com/pds/201111/29/09/8110.zip LDR file contain the code line for stickers but L3B file don't, because SR3D couldn't read the file with the stickers to the end. I recommend that if you want to use SR3D, then choose L3B file, and if LDview or MLCAD, then LDR file. Here is the sticker files that I used as reference. (You should download at parts folder and do 'Scan part' in MLCAD) http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptscan.cgi?q=4622303 http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptscan.cgi?q=4631649 Enjoy :) KWON

I tried but couldn't attach the file because of global upload quata. (Used 93.64K of your 100K global upload quota (Max. single file size: 6.36K)) It has a big size, 550KB, because of flexible parts by Lsynth. I am sorry to say that I will attache it later if I found a way.

I have to mention that SR3D didn't show full function yet like real world, for example, pneumatic function. It support only basic gear connection and little complex hinge at the moment. and my model has some location that didn't connect with each other because of tolerance. (in this case, I choose better appearance rather than function) I made this model by alternating SR3D for assembling and MLCAD for flexible pneumatic hose, string, and sticker.

I did it ;) But I face a problem regarding rendering sticker. If you have any idea about this problem, please let me know. My link When I solve this problem, I will show complete 8110 with nice rendering image.