String reels and holders in Stud.io / LDraw

[nwbricks]

Hey, 

I've just started getting to grips with Stud.io and rebuilding some of my own mocs to release instructions for and so on. 

There doesn't seem to be a way to add "proper" string to models, as far as I can tell? In particular, I'm after part 4209c07. But Stud.io is also complaining that the yellow nozzles don't exist, because (I guess) they only ever came attached to the string 

Does anyone have any experience with using a custom part for the whole assembly? I can't find a model anywhere. 

Furthermore, the hollow stud version of the holder itself doesn't exist in the parts library. There is a discussion on the LDraw forums about this where they concluded (wrongly) that the hollow stud version doesn't exist "in real life" - I can confirm it very much does as I've got one in front of me. 

Any help or pointers would be massively appreciated! 

Cheers

Edited July 22, 2020 by electropie