[QUESTION] SR 3D Builder

[chiefsalami]

Hello all, first-time poster on here.

I really hope this is no a duplicate post (although I asked in another part of the forum), because I could not find anything through the search. I am building digital Technic models on LDD, and have read that SR 3D Builder is much better for the meshing and bending of parts such as gears and soft axles. I know that tool has not been updated in quite some time, but I cannot get it to run on any machine or operating system, real or virtual. I've tried everything from XP to Windows 10. It installs successfully, but when I try to run it, it crashes with an "unhandled exception", apparently related to the .net framework.

Can anyone help me to get this application running? Or the best option would be to link me to a portable executable version of the latest SR3DB.

Thank you!

[MSc Shobaki]

I think the problem is solved by installing DirectX 9. The program can't run at later versions of it.

This happened to me two weeks ago on my new office laptop and now it works :)

[Tommy Styrvoky]

I got it to run on Windows 10 side of my Mac. So it isn't Windows, maybe drivers for the program?

[Kladovec]

But autor of SR 3D Builder died few years ago. No new update of it I thing.

[chiefsalami]

I knew you guys would help me solve this! It turns out it was in fact the Direct X 9 end user libraries that needed to be installed. It at least starts now... time to figure out how to use it.

Thank you!

[Captainowie]

You may also want to consider looking into LDCad. It's got nearly everything SR3DBuilder has (and a few more things) and is still under active development. One downside (from your point of view, coming from LDD rather than an older LDraw program) is that you'll need to separately download the LDraw library.

See http://www.melkert.net/LDCad and ldraw.org to get started.

Owen.