Search the Community
Showing results for tags 'software'.
Found 33 results
-
Official lego set made of what software build drawings?
lster posted a topic in General LEGO Discussion
What software is used to build the building instruction of the lego official sets ? -
[Software] LDCad - LDraw cad
legolijntje posted a topic in Digital LEGO: Tools, Techniques, and Projects
As suggested by papacharly, here's a topic about LDcad to discuss and help each other. What is LDcad? LDcad is an LDraw cad program being developed by Roland Melkert. The current version is 1.4, which can be downloaded here. For more information about LDCad, visit the website (and make sure to read the quick manual!). The features are (copy/pasted from the website): Windows and Linux support. Multi-threaded (background) loading of parts. Fast detailed real-time 3D rendering. Basic part snapping on growing collection of (official) parts. Integrated portable flexible parts support (springs, hoses, bands). Script based animation. Full MPD Support. Part grouping. Part ghosting. Nested editing. Relative grids. Multiple file editing (open as many files you like). Instruction stepping support. Full undo/redo. Copy/paste from to other LDraw software. Highly customizable part and color bins. Growing collection of example models. From my own experience, LDcad is quite difficult for beginners and can be quite unintuituve. This may sounds harsh, but it is (from my experience at least). But, if you get through the difficult part, a wonderdful piece of software is available to you and when you know to do, it's actually quite easy. Almost as easy as LDD (if we use that as a benchmark for easiness). It feels a bit like SR3D builder, but it doesn't have the user-friendly way of animation. It doesn have other nice features. It's really worth to take a look at! Roland is most active on the LDraw forums, so if you want to directly talk with him, I recommend going here. Of course, you can post all comments, questions and disscustions regarding LDcad in this topic too. So, this is the topic on EB to talk about LDCad [continuation from the LDraw sets topic] LDcad is quite nice. I've been using it for the past few weeks and I'm quite happy with it. Btw, make sure to turn on part-snapping if you haven't already, in my experience it makes building a lot easier. I just tried to find this setting, but I can't find it anymore. Maybe it's turned on by default nowadays, I can remember I had to set it on... Oh, and if you set Anti Aliassing on the edges on (AA), it makes the view a lot better -
[Software] Brick Wizard: A tool for saving money on LEGO parts at BL
Rotsiser Mho posted a topic in Digital LEGO: Tools, Techniques, and Projects
Hi everyone! Over the past 18 months I have been working on Brick Wizard: an app for OS X/Windows that helps save money on BrickLink orders by determining the least expensive combination of stores for a given parts/wanted list. It's inspired by the awesome MATLAB scripts written by atxdad but it's much, much faster and easier to use :). Please comment on the Trello board if you'd like to suggest a feature or if you run into any problems! You can also track our progress there. Brick Wizard Brick Wizard consolidates BrickLink orders by taking a BrickStore inventory file and determining the least expensive combination of BrickLink stores that contain all LEGO parts in the inventory in the desired quantities. For example, if you wish to find the least expensive combination of stores from which to buy 100 red 2x2 bricks and 200 1x4 blue plates you would use BrickStore to add those parts to an inventory file and open it in Brick Wizard. The Wizard can then search BrickLink and find a combination of stores that have all 300 pieces at the lowest available price. The idea is to save money on large orders! While a few other apps exist that perform a similar function, Brick Wizard has a C++11 back end that is many times faster than existing apps. In addition, it is the only app of its kind with a native UI on both Mac OS X and Windows. In the future, I hope to expand Brick Wizard and add features that LEGO fans have been clamoring for. Please note that this is beta software and there may be bugs and there are certainly missing features. Bugs can be reported and features can be voted on at the Brick Wizard Trello board. Using the Results Once Brick Wizard has worked its magic, you will see a list of combinations and stores. The cost of each combination is displayed as well as buttons to create BrickLink wanted list XML. You will first need to create an empty wanted list in BrickLink for each store. Give it a name you can remember. Note the ID of the wanted list. For each store, click Create Wanted List... and enter the wanted list number given by BrickLink. Click Copy (or press Enter). Next, go to the BrickLink wanted list upload page. Paste the XML copied from Brick Wizard and click Verify Items. Next, click Upload File. Next, go to each store's page (Brick Wizard provides a link) and click Show All Items this store has on my Wanted List on the left side of the page. Select the wanted list you created before from the In: dropdown; click Go!. For each item, enter the quantity from the wanted list. Now you can click Add Selected Items to Shopping Cart. Finally, you can checkout! I hope you find this useful! Thanks for checking it out! -
[EV3] Mindstorms EV3 Software (Education vs. Home)
BrickDaddy posted a topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling
Hi All, I want to share some information regarding the LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Software here. The software is available as a 120.-€ education version and as a free "home" version. When I bought the education version, I faced some issues and made some experiences which might be worth to be shared as I couldn't find the information in the www, yet: The 2 software versions are based on the same core software. The education version is enhanced with "data logging" functionality and more than 50 "training" sessions for the programming elements, sensors, etc.. One who is interested in learning to program and a starter (like my 9 yrs. old son) has a real benefit with the education version and I can say that the additional content is worth to spend some money for it. The home version is provided as download in all available languages while the education version is being sold in "market specific" language bundles. I couldn't find any official information about that, but when I bought my software in the Netherlands I got a BENELUX version key which allows me to download the software only in the languages "english", "dutch" and "french". This is somehow strange as "german" is an official language in parts of the BENELUX countries ... Unfortunately, one does not see this "limitation" as the EV3 education software has the same LEGO part number (2000045) in all countries and the available languages can only be seen after the activation / registration of the software. The LEGO EV3 education software is shipped as an activation key which allow to download language specific installation files from the lego education website. After the activation, the LEGO EV3 education software is registered to the user account and cannot be removed any more, which implies that it cannot be resold. Note: Reselling is also excluded in the license agreement. An interesting discussion if this is compatible with the European copyright laws as they generally allow reselling of "used" software. The bricks firmware is also available in a "home" and an "education" version. The education version is enhanced with a "online data logging functionality" which allows to remotely monitor (via Bluetooth/USB/WLAN) the sensor values on a computer. The source code of the firmware home version has been released by LEGO and is available via https://github.com/m...ards/ev3sources. So, that's it for now. If someone has specific questions regarding the software versions, I will be happy to provide an answer, if possible. Cheers, BrickDaddy -
Hi all, So another self purchase and build on the cards. I am going to use this thread as a build journal and a question post because i have one right away! I didnt have the money for this when it came out and I only found out today that you could build it yourself! Fantastic idea and I cant wait to get started on it but even sourcing all the parts is great fun and im looking forward to the adventure :) I started purchasing parts today from BrickLink and while I was doing so I came across a peice of software called brickstore. Great peice of software but I am a tad confused about why it has duplicate entrys of the same item called 'Extra'. At the bottom of the software it says 288 lots which is how many my list says in bricklink so I assume its correct but then when I remove the 'Extras' it obviously goes down in total lots. They seem to be exactly the same, same colour, item number and everything so maybe someone here could tell me what it is for and do i need to keep them or can I delete them? Just as an added thing I thought I would post a pic of my 7965 MF that my GF bought me a couple of years ago for christmas (shes a top girl :) ) Anywho, any help would be great as I dont want to overpurchase anything.
-
Brickrake: Command Line Tools for Saving Money on Bricklink
duckworthd posted a topic in Digital LEGO: Tools, Techniques, and Projects
Hi everyone, A few weeks ago, I came across a METAL GEAR REX build on Reddit that inspired me to jump into the LEGO community. I was amazed to discover how dedicated the community is to making the most of those little plastic bricks of my youth. I wanted immediately to buy up the pieces I needed, but soon discovered that for a project the size of METAL GEAR REX, selecting individual parts from thousands of sellers could take days! Brickstore said I would need to spend roughly $1,000 USD if I followed the average price -- surely there must be a better way? And so I thought, "Why not build a better way?" Brickrake is the fruition of that thought. Given a BrickStore XML or BrickLink XML parts list, Brickrake will scrape store information and parts prices, find the cheapest stores to buy from, and give you a one-wanted-list-per-store BrickLink XML file you can upload. Then, using Brickrake's javascript bookmarket, you can select exactly the amount you want from your wanted list -- no more, no less. While Brickrake works for me, it's far from user friendly at this point. It's no more than a suite of command line tools, is doubtless full of loose ends, and requires Gurobi, which is only accessible to students and faculty at academic institutions. For those familiar with programming, I hope this tool will be of great use for you. For those not, I hope to create a nice GUI in the near future. Cheers! -
Hello all, i'm new here so hopefully i post this in the correct place. I like to work with Lego Digital Designer but finding of parts is very limited. Because of this i wrote myself a little tool wich make working with LDD better. Because the tool is better working than expected i want to share the beta version already with you all. If anyone found a bug or a feature request, let me know. LDD Part Finder 1.0.0 build 4 final features Index of all (available) parts of LDD 4.3.5 Fast search on partnumber, design id or description keyword, wildcards or regular expression (PCRE, use :your RegularExpression in front of a search) Show the partnumber and a preview image of the found LDD design part Show the itemnos and a preview image of the itemnos variations in official LDD colors Copy the item description or design id/itemnos to clipboard option Copy the item description or design id/itemnos DIRECT to the stringfield of LDD option Main window Stay on front of all other windows option Bring LDD to front after a clipboard or DIRECT copy option Minimize and Maximize button to make the main window small or default. This is handy when used with stay on top and working in LDD. Auto minimize after clipboard or LDD Direct copy. All options (including selected font) can be saved in the .ini file and will be loaded by program start. Option to choose another font for easy reading at your own comfort. Low memory usage and working on WinXP/Win7 x86/x64 (minimal required screen size = 800x600) Contains 14.490 LDD itemnos and 13.877 NON LDD itemnos (but official Lego numbers) Easy LDD Yes/No column to show if your selected itemnos/Lego part/variation is known and supported in LDD Key in your itemnumber from an Official Lego building instruction inventory and pronto, with ONLY ONE mouseclick it's into LDD, the end of searching is near! extended_images_lib.bin, this library contains 12.455 official Lego part images with or without decorations. This library is optional and you can download this separately. Place it in the same folder as LDD PF and the program will automatically use it when you click a itemnos. Downside is that not all parts are available as extended image, if so then the standard image will be used. - It's free Current download location and Google project site http://code.google.c...ldd-partfinder/ Greetings from The Netherlands, DrFalken
-
I am sure there must be topics on this, but I think I'm using the wrong search terms! I recently bought a job lot of Lego, which came with no instructions and no indication of which sets might be in it (or how complete they may be). I have discovered a few unique bricks whilst I've been sorting, and using those, I've been able to establish a couple of sets that must've been owned at one point. I've been trying to work out what the most logical way of cataloguing these pieces would be. Currently, I have accounts on Peeron and Brickset, and I have got the, "I own this set," markers. I know on Peeron, that enables me to see if I am able to build other sets from my collection, but I don't really use that function as all of my sets are complete and built. What I would like to do is catalogue the entirety of this jumble (I might be slightly mad, there's tonnes of it) so that I can see which sets I could build out of the pieces, preferably without requiring pieces from my existing complete sets. I'm guessing this might require a new account that's separate to my own complete sets? Or would require me to delete my complete sets from my collection? I think it would also be handy to have a record of which bricks I have, so that when I want to build an MOC, I can check on the computer to see if I have the parts required. So, how do you guys do it? Do you use a website such as Peeron, or do you have a spreadsheet, or is there a special programme that you use?
