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Not really sure about what Raskolnikov wants. As far as the instructions go, I think that'll take at least another month or so. It's quite a lot of bricks. The old estimate of ~8000 parts turned out to be very wrong. It's probably going to be closer to ~12K parts. Up to you if that's either good or bad

It's certainly possible for LDraw. I've implemented an LDraw viewer using Brigl on the OMR. Example here. However, the performance of Brigl is not exactly great and it isn't very flexible. I'd love to write my own webviewer, but my knowledge of javascript and webgl is by far not enough. Not to mention the fact that my spare free time is kinda lacking at the moment. Anyway, it's a cool idea, but I'm not too sure if it would work well on a forum (at least with currently available scripts/frameworks)

Oh, wow! That's it indeed. How could I have missed it all this time!? I've been looking for like 30 minutes, haha. Thanks mate!

No. A bit like this: Please excuse my horrible paint skills. Drawing with a mouse is not that easy

I'm looking for a part (number). It's a round part, but with 4 dents. And it has axleholes and maybe pin-holes (not sure about that). I think it's mostly used in Bionicle/Hero Factory, but I wasn't able to find it there either (at least not by quickly looking through the set images). I've searched and scrolled through Bricklink and Rebrickable, but I can't find it. I swear I've seen this part before. Anyone an idea what part number I'm looking for?

I know that Rebrickable has an extensive mapping between LEGO, Bricklink and LDraw. However, I don't know which number LDD uses for a pattern? Your example of 95551 doesn't match anything in the Rebrickable database. Rebrickable has listed 95275 as design id

That's a beautiful picture! Also on another (kinda off-topic) note: I'm not too familiar with the really detailed Star Wars information. So, I was wondering how the Tyrant compares to other Star Destroyers. You know, a bit of background information. So I googled 'Star Wars Tyrant' and if you do that in Google images, most of the results are from Raskolnikov's Lego Tyrant (big version)

Haha, that's a good one! +1 from me

I don't completely agree with their arguments either. I mean, yes, different colors (and single parts per step) makes building easier, but should it be? I mean, the theme is called 'Technic', it's designed for older children (at least, that was what I thought) and is more advanced. Is it really necessary to keep making things easier and easier? And I know, we are adults and it's easy for us to say 'Stop making it easy! It's easy enough!'. But when I was younger, I got an old Technic set from my dad from when he was young (one of the first Technic sets actually, set 852). The instructions back then were a single piece of paper with like 50 parts per 'step'. Much, much more 'difficult' than now. And after a bunch of tries, I was finally able to build a working version of the set. It felt so amazing. Even after all these years I can still remember the feeling of accomplishment, of what I achieved. I was so proud. And I don't mean that we have to go back to the really old style instructions, but I want to say that Technic (and Lego in general too) is not only about the result, it's also about the building (experience). And especially in the Technic theme the building experience is a core part in my opinion. Fiddling around with the gears, making sure everything works, counting the holes in the beam to make sure it's the correct length etc. etc. But they kinda lost that the last decade, the focus nowadays seems to be on the end result: the final model with all the features. And the instructions are just a roadblock, something that's in the way of achieving the result and thus it has to be made as easy as possible. But that's not what Technic is about. If difficult instructions are too difficult for someone, he/she should just try harder, it's not impossible. But that incoherent story is just my personal opinion

Well, I'll try to make the instructions as excellent as possible As far as building technique's go, I haven't build it in real life (and I probably never will, at least not in the foreseeable future), but from what I've seen so far, it's built very well (in my opinion at least). And regarding the pieces... Well, I don't think I've seen any really rare pieces so far, but the amount of certain pieces...

Better late then never I guess

I use LDCad together with LPub3D. And add a lot of time and patience into the mix too But, for this kind of questions, I'd recommend you to post them here. This is not really the topic to talk about instructions-creation

I don't know how much (if any) Raskolnikov wants to keep secret, so I leave all the details up to him. In fact, I personally don't know the size of the build compared to 10030 either. But there's definitely a full interior.

Well, more like Plus-Plus-Plus sized Although, a big chunk of the piece count is from all the inside details I think.

That's an amazing build! I love it! All the details, all the functionality. Great work! I can remember the first images you posted of the chassis and that feels so long ago (and it is). To be honest, I kinda though you stopped building it. It's great that you've had the dedication to work on it for all those years. Btw, the video is also very nice.

Well, if you don't want to use LDD, you could probably import the lxf file in Studs.io and then export to LDraw again. I don't know how good their import/export quality is though.

That's really unfortunate :( C3Powen hasn't been online since 2015 so I don't think he'll see your message. I'll try to contact him, see if we can work something out.

I believe I have his files on my PC. I also have this .zip file on my Onedrive, but I'm not 100% sure if the color file you're looking for is in there. Otherwise, I have it on my desktop at home, but I'm not home this weekend so in that case you'll have to wait

There's also someone here who appears to be testing a new LDraw CAD app for ipads and iphones

I made an LDraw model of the AT-AT using LDCad and Raskolnikov's photo-instructions. I also used LDCad to add the necessary steps. I then loaded the LDraw file into LPub3D and used that program to format and layout the instructions. That's a really short and simplified explanation, but at the very basic that's how they were made

So, I came across some news articles talking about some new 'moto-mods'. For the people not in the phone-world, Motorola is selling some phones which have special connections for so called 'moto-mods'. The mods can be used to enhance your phone with whatever functionality the mod-maker comes up with. Apparently, Motorola showed off some new mods. One of them caught my eye: a Lego Mindstorms mod. Take a look: | Image from here. It's maybe not clear from an image, so here's a video too. Really recommend watching it, because it makes it much clearer how it works. You can clearly see the EV3 module at the 15 second mark, and it clearly shows how it works and also in combination with other mindstorms and Technic parts. I'm not sure if it is just a concept or if it will be an actual product. Nevertheless, it looks really cool and think of the possibilities! I mean, a phone has a lot more power than the ev3 brick while also being significantly smaller. It has a much better screen. And, depending on how they implement it, maybe you could even use the phone as a sensor too, or the camera capabilties. The only 'downside' I can think of is that a 'moto-mod' like this would (obviously) only work on compatible phones from Motorola and isn't a more general device that works with e.g. all android devices. Nevertheless, I think it's quite cool and I'm wondering how much Lego is involved in this. Maybe, they are working on a new version of Mindstorms where you can use any phone as the 'intelligent brick'? What do you guys think about this moto-mod?

Just noticed this topic and I have to see that looks really nice! But, I have a weak spot for excavators anyway Although, there was one thing I was wondering while looking through all your images: where will you put all the cables? Will there even be enough space for that?

LDCad is miles better than MLCad. LDCad has automatic part snapping like in LDD (although a little tip; it is turned off by default) which makes building so much easier. Not to mention all the other great features including a much easier way to create flexible parts. I really recommend LDCad

Well, instead of trying to get LPub4 to work, I think you're better off trying to get LPub3D to work LPub3D is so much better (and a lot faster!) than LPub4.

As far as I know, Stud.io uses the LDraw parts library. So when there's an LDraw parts update, chances are high the new parts will also show up in Stud.io. Maybe they've added some of their own parts, that I don't know. I also don't really keep up to date with their other updates myself. But, if you'd like to maintain a topic with their updates, feel free to create one yourself and share the updates in there