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When the auto-buy feature was new, I remember there being a setting to let it favor either as few stores as possible or as low cost as possible. I can't find that setting anymore, which is a shame Yeah, it's true that there are a bunch of sellers with (relatively) really high prices but also a huge stock. If you look on Rebrickable sets/mocs on the Buy Parts tab, it always lists stores with the highest percentage of parts in stock and it's almost ALWAYS the same few shops which have the highest percentage. But their prices are really high too. For example, they might have 95% for €200 while number 3 might have %90 for €50. But I don't think I would necessarily call them greedy and I don't think they're taking advantage of the system either (at least not on purpose) as most of my blacklisted stores were already expensive before the auto-buy feature. I guess it's, in a way, paying for the convenience of not having to shop around multiple stores. If you don't want to pay for that, just blacklist 'm (I have indeed blacklisted a few expensive stores too) and fiddle a few minutes with the easy-buy. What about this setting (never used it myself)?

Certainly true. But at the time of making these building instructions the fade feature wasn't working very well yet in the software being used. Nowadays it works quite a bit better and it's used for example in the building instructions of this moc. Regarding the random colors inside: that's definitely a thing that can be used in future models. In the past, it was often not used because random colors in the parts list were far from user-friendly. It made buying the parts so much more work. However, these days Bricklink's auto-buy feature can actually do that for you. If you use the auto-buy feature on a BL wanted list that contains parts with the color '(Not Applicable)', the software will search for the cheapest combination of those parts regardless of color. That, too, is used in the moc linked earlier. I hope to be able to apply those things, where applicable, to any future projects

Semi-important note for people planning to build the model and buying their parts on Bricklink: As Onecase said, all red parts in the parts list can be any color. If you export the parts list to Bricklink, I highly recommend to change all red parts to Bricklink's (Not Applicable) color. To my positive surprise, Bricklink's auto-buy feature 'understands' the (Not Applicable) color and will search for the cheapest combination of stores and parts regardless of color (except for the other parts with an explicitly stated color obviously). It saves a lot of manual work and money. During development of the instructions I ran auto-buy on the parts list (with red parts being (Not Applicable) ) and it was around €600 in Europe excluding shipping. Not too bad for 5000 parts. As a sidenote: the reason the parts are Red in the Rebrickable parts list is because Rebrickable does not have any color that correctly exports to Bricklink's (Not Applicable) at the moment. Happy buying building!

You can use LDView to create nice looking 'instruction-style' images. Though, you have to improve the settings quite a bit, the default looks really low-quality.

AppData is a hidden folder. You have to turn on hidden folders in Windows Explorer. Here's a quick guide how to do that. If that isn't the problem (another folder doesn't exist) then... I have no idea

Like Roland said, LPub3D has a confusing library usage. I'm not entirely sure how it works either. In any case, if parts don't appear in the PLI you gotta update LPub3D's own library. There's a option for that in the menu, but it never worked (very well or at all) for me. If it doesn't for you either, you can go to C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\LPub3D\data and update complete.zip and lpub3dldrawunf.zip. Both zipfiles can be downloaded from the LDraw.org website. I should probably sticky this at some point, it's pretty much the most common LPub3D question

How in the world did I not notice that. Wow, haha. Nice catch!

They are certainly not in the exported file. But I guess something is just broken with my LDD installation. When I wanted to update the ldraw.xml file, there was none to begin with (at least not at the path specified in the top post; the whole path didn't even exists, let alone the ldraw.xml).

It seems part 24299 and 24307 don't export at all from LDD. Is this a problem with my setup, or are they missing from the ldraw.xml?

LDraw has a special color for rubber black: color 256 Rubber Black. As long as the software supports the LDraw materials (which LDView does I believe) it should look less shiny. So if you change the color of your tires from color 0 Black to color 256 Rubber Black it should look better Btw, welcome to Eurobricks! And your English is perfectly fine

I use the mirror function all the time. Great feature! Though, it would save a ton more time if it would also (optionally) mirror the ROTSTEPs

Please note that this topic is years old. First and foremost reviving such old topics (without adding anything substantial) is something we don't like here on EB. And besides, I don't think user Whup is gonna send out any test-links either. I'll lock this topic now.

@Scrubs @anothergol Please keep the discussion here about Blueprint. If you really want, you can discuss further via PM or in a more appropriate topic. Thank you.

Hey @Shroud! Please note that this is not really the place to post (digital) MOCs. Digital MOCs go into the other subforums here on EB. In the forum here we discuss the tools & techniques, ask for help etc. Normally I'd just move mocs out of here into the correct subforums, but since you made your title and content specifically for here, I think moving it as is would just cause confusion. So, I'll just lock this one and let you post a new topic for your moc(s) yourself

You're kidding right? That's not a render!? Seriously though, that looks amazing! TLG should hire you I wanted to say here that if you had LDraw import support you would probably have a new regular 'customer'. Well, I just noticed you (finally) actually have LDraw import support! Since when? Couldn't you have notified me?

The parts list at Rebrickable is now updated with the findings from @rockpig. Nothing major, just the ones he reported: +2 LBG 1x2 plates +2 LBG 2x4 plates -2 LBG 2x3 plates A small update to the instructions should come later this week, fixing the issues mentioned by @rockpig. If anyone else has found anything, now's the time to report

Thanks for the thorough look at the instructions and parts list! Much appreciated. I'm currently on vacation so I'm not able to take a good look at your reports and fix them. So, I can only fix it in a little more than a week at the earliest. Regarding the 2 LBG 2x3 plates: it could very well be that the parts list is wrong. There were some last minute changes with plates and I might have forgotten to change the 2x3 plates in the parts list. But, I don't know out of the top of my head if those changes included 2x3 plates. Again, I can only be 100% sure when I get back from vacation... In any case, many thanks! Even though I can't fix it immediately, I'll surely fix them (wherever possible) when I get back

If a part can be in any color, I usually choose the cheapest color on bricklink (while maintaining some sort of logic and color coding). This makes it easy for builders to buy parts (all cheapest colors are already selected, no need to do extra work).

You were not the only one

I don't know out of the top of my head if it was 10188 or 75159, but one of the two had a transparant sticker sheet, thus the background of the arrow-sticker is transparant on one of those sheets.

There is an LDraw part of the SBrick available. It's not in the official library (as it is not an official Lego part), but it should be floating somewhere around the web (it used to be on sbrick's own website, but not sure it's still there).

Yup, instructions were made using LDCad and LPup3D

Isn't that cool to see?! Madoca based his FJ40 Crawler model on your RM8 FJ40 and then you based your Jeep MOC on a model designed by Madoca. What a teamwork! Nice work!

There might be people following this topic who have missed that Onecase posted the instructions in a new topic here: Please keep further discussion about the instructions in that topic

We (well, mostly Onecase) tried to remove as much of the rare and expensive parts as possible. The original first design was much more expensive, haha. There are still a few rare parts left, especially the LBG barrels and cylinders. They can be changed for DBG. Of course it won't look as slick as LBG, but they're all on the bottom side of the model so they're not directly visible and DBG doesn't look that bad. Especially the cylinders are largely covered by other LBG parts.