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Your work is over the top. Will you be posting the LXF file? The twin color schemes are well worked out, awesome.

Construction photo update. Now Zurich informs the construction astronauts that the communication dish will be relocated before the fusion reactors are fueled and powered up. The next step will be loading the sodium into the MSS. Rockets with the sodium are on the launch pads. 11956 bricks and growing

Thank you for the comment. At this stage of construction the ship is 255x139x90 studs. The plans from Zurich show the length to get 5 studs longer but all else will be within the present dimensions.

So you want to build a space ship. When finished its mission will be to mine Helium-3 from the one of the gas giant planets Jupiter or Saturn. Space headquarters in Zurich will make the decision after the testing of the Magnetic Shielding Sphere. The MSS is the last hope to protect astronauts from radiation outside of Earth orbit. This project is build in LDD and now contains 10009 bricks and growing.

My new year wish for 2015: User Decorations Folder (MAC), User Decorations Directory (PC). This would be where User created art work (decorations, stickers & decals) would be placed and where LDD software would search after all of the LEGO provided decorations are searched. Much like the UserPalettes works now. The decoration tool does not need to work with the User Decorations Folder or the user created art work. AFOLs would accept the fact that editing the LXFML will be required to place a decoration on a brick. Knowledge of graphic creating software will be required. Standards will need to be followed. But intellectual property rights may prevent this software upgrade although the infringement would be the action of the user not LEGO. Just proofing that fact would cause LEGO to spend money.

Thank you Zblj for the comments. Are you talking about add rendering software to the process? If so it is on the long todo list but behind some other tasks

This one is all digital. Shut the door...Turn on the fans. Raise the leg.....Attach the hoverboard Rack it.....Connect the hoses Strip the right side....Sent the components to the refurb shops From up top Galaxy You can join the team when you stop flying in my hangar....maybe. Credits: Walls look and feel....Peter Reid Exo Suit LDD file....Vean and Stephan D-09 Rover (truck)....Commander Betar

Part 23306 Light Sward Shaft has been modified in a good way. We can now copy Peter Reid's floor robots from his Turtle Factory.

Yes to more information and I will be waiting. Thanks for the work you have done

I have uploaded some files to BrickShelf Cartesian fig3.gif reworks the standard axis to LDD axis. http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Oldnut/Sphere/cartesiam_fig3.gif Cartesian.rtf is the notes (rough) for the study to date. http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=544802 Sphere_w_axis.LXF is a complete sphere with spears on the three axis. http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Oldnut/Sphere/sphere_w_axis.lxf

The source for most of this study was: Appendix C Coordinate Transformations from the book, Global Positioning System, Inertial Navigation, and Integration, Mohinder S. Grewal, Lawrence R. Weill, Angus P. Andrews When time permits I will be setting up an account on BrickShelf to post notes and files.

The pic is the final result of a study into the transformations twelve CSV. This study is build on the knowledge supplied by the contributors to Gnac’s post. The sphere is 202 1x1 round brick with hole #85861. It confirms my suspicions that CSV twelve are nine trigonometric functions and three real coordinates. I used a spreadsheet to make the calculations and generate the LXFML file. Thanks to bbqqq for sharing the process he uses to generate the random min figs with decorations.

I show 3265 total parts in LDD Extended mode for a increase of 157. This would show five parts were removed? No new colors.

Works fine in US. Just tested it. I'm in Florida maybe parts of the US only

Camera Exercise for Beginners: Start LDD with new file and place a red 1x1 plate at the center of the scene and black round 1x1 next to it but not attached. Save as “cam.lxfml” Open the LXFML file with a text editor (Note Pad or TextEdit). The red plate will have material=21 and the black plate will have the material=26. Copy & Paste the “<Camera fefID=”0” transfromation” to the black plate’s transfromation. Save as “cam1.lxfml” You could also delete the lines between <RigidSystems> Open cam1.lxfml with LDD. I keep both LDD and the text editor open for this exercise and just go back and forth. You should see the red plate and note a change in the stud grid. Now use the Camera control command “Reset view” You found the black plate and will need to rotate the view and reset a few times to get both the red and black plate in the scene at the same time. The black plate is where the camera was at the beginning (in cam.lxfml) and we have move the camera to a new location. Now we have all kinds of questions to work on. If this does not go smoothly and you get errors the tricky parts are in editing the LXFML file. All the little symbols (< > “ / , ) must be in the right place.

On the MAC US version of the Wireless keyboard the one without the number pad it is Shift+Control with the Mouse held down. BTW, Control+Command with the Mouse gives you dynamic rotate and if the cursor is in the +/- circle you get zoom.

Very interesting. Batch process from Excel to LXFML. Have you posted the files/process yet? If so where, if not it is understood that there is not enough time in a day.

After the investigation into colors in 4.3.8 and editing LXFML files what then. Make a color wheel? This is the end result. A virtual color tube that can not be build with real bricks even if you have all 169 1x1 plates. The fun is spinning it inside the LDD world. Yes scaffolding was used in the build. Trick: If you have the “Outlines on Bricks” set with the box checked in Preference a brick will vanish. It is number 129 Tr. Bluish Violet (glitter). This could be useful when you want a scaffolding to be invisible but not yet deleted. I think this is a bug and may be fixed in the next update. Color Tube.lxf

Advent is a liturgical season observed in many Western churches as a time before Christmas. It starts four Sundays before December 25. So it can begin in November. LEGO advent sets are 24 small builds so is it is used to count down the days before December 25 starting on December 1.

Welcome to Eurobricks from a non-euro AFOL

It is 169 displayable colors with 12 not named. Also four names in the BOM generated spreadsheet from the LXFML file that do not display correctly. The list of four was found in the thread “LDD Reference” started Nov 4 2010 under section “Complete LLD Color Chart” updated Sep 26, 2012. Downloaded your file and think it also has 169 displayable colors. It has 173 bricks (LDD information bottom bar) and visually shows four bricks in the white, unshaded silhouette (a.k.a. ghost color). The math gives us 169. Used your file in the last step of my investigation. Placing copy the file into the folder UserPalettes and using the “Filter bricks by boxes” command thereby getting a modified color palette with 169 colors to filter/select by. The breakdown is 41 solid, 15 transparent, 5 metallic and 108 legacy. If you have a list of five named ghost colors it may answer the question please post list for additional investigation.

oops Someone wants the report. First I must resolve the question 168 or 169. I will check my data, process, and conclusion looking for the moth before posting the report.

Good work the photographs have a surreal quality. Do you use Photoshop? Do you use LEGO Digital Designer?

Since this thread popped up again I can report on the MAC version of 4.3.8 there are 169 displayable colors. If this does not break the EULA and anyone is interested I can post a more complete report.

Will Stephanie and her Friends be added to LDD or will it be Heartbreak for the daughters and granddaughters of AFOLs. We can teach them about computers and CAD with the correct hooks.