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That’s what I do. There have been problems with some of the early versions: then I just downloaded and reinstalled on top of the old version. But it’s been a while now. Depending on the machine (Wine can be tricky), it may or may not manage to restart itself. But that’s a small problem. Don’t forget to install msttcorefonts (or similar package) and link the .ttf into a drive_c/windows/fonts directory. That solves many issues in Instruction mode.

Strange, updating works here.

Update 2020-09-07 Rematched: 2654 / 2654a.dat Dish 2 x 2 with Rim Importable: 2654.dat / 2654 ~Moved to 2654a New Custom Parts: 6594 / 6594.dat Tyre 28/ 38 x 28 VR 22253 / 22253.dat Wheel 25 x 28 VR with 35mm Diameter Rear Rim and Complete Cross Axle Hole 30116 / 30116.dat Panel 14 x 14 x 2.667 Quarter Saucer Top 30119 / 30119.dat Wing 8 x 4 - 2 x 3.333 Down 32057 / 32057.dat Wheel Rim 14 x 60 with 3 Spokes and 3 Pegholes 32076 / 32076.dat Tyre 14/ 21 x 57 32077 / 32077.dat Wheel Rim 28 x 60 with 3 Spokes and 3 Pegholes 32078 / 32078.dat Tyre 28/ 21 x 57 32180 / 32180.dat Tyre 30/ 42 x 28 R Balloon 32195 / 32195b.dat Technic Suspension Arm 2 x 6.5 Type 3 32196 / 32196.dat Tyre 32/ 33 x 61 Racing Wet 32197 / 32197.dat Wheel Rim 30 x 61 with 3 Spokes Swirled 37383 / 37383.dat Wheel Rim 42 x 62 with 10 Spokes and 3 Pins 37452 / 37452.dat Brick 1 x 2 x 2 with Rounded Slab 42529 / 42529.dat Technic Sprocket Wheel 56.5 49294 / 49294.dat Wheel Rim 34 x 56 with 6 Double Spokes and 6 Pegholes 52629 / 52629.dat Technic Ball 19mm for Ball Castor 56907 / 56907.dat Tyre 35/ 42 x 56 Racing 65092 / 65092.dat Tile 1 x 1 x 0.5 Octagonal Facetted Importable Custom Parts: 32195.dat / 32195 ~Moved to 32195b 32195a.dat / 32195 Technic Suspension Arm 2 x 6.5 Type 2 Corrected Custom part: 2337 / 2337.dat Windscreen 4 x 4 x 2 Canopy Extender md5sum: 1a48b57caf6a2ad4bb04fb3c49587e49

I didn’t know what part it was supposed to connect to. I’m not a big car builder I just test the connections the simplest way to find the transformations for ldraw.xml: I see a stud, I put a 1x1 plate, I see an axle hole, I put an axle, I see a pin, I try to put a 1x1 beam, etc., because I’m 100% sure of the transformations for those simple parts.

37383: pins can’t connect to full technic holes, they can connect to half beams, collision issue?

It’s a known problem: you need to run it in a virtual desktop or disable window management by the window manager (both options in wincfg).

You need to deinstall the rotten version first and clean your user directory.

You need to be in LDD Extended. Menu View | New themes | LDD Extended. The paint tool works differently but you can colour everything in any colour. There’s also many more parts than in LDD “normal.” You can switch modes any time. Saving a file saves the last mode in which it has been edited so you’ll be in that mode when you open the file, but you can still change afterward.

Buying more RAM may not be enough. The maximum size a Java program can use is limited by four paramaters: the physical size of your RAM (itself limited by your machine), the available memory on your system (IOW, what the other applications leave), your OS: — Windows 10 Home can’t use more than 256GiB of physical RAM (but it’s generally not used on machines that can accept more), — Windows 32bits limits the RAM to 2GiB per process, max 3GiB if the system and application are set for large addresses, — and for Win 64bits the limit per process is also 2GiB, but with a max of 8TiB for large addresses, Java’s own limit (“chosen at runtime”). The 4th limit can be checked with the command “java -XX:+PrintFlagsFinal -version | findstr MaxHeapSize” on Windows (replace “findstr” with “grep” on unix or Mac). Divide the value by 1,073,741,824 to get GiB (that’s 1024x1024x1024). You can set that value higher (or lower) with the option “-Xmx#” (e.g. edit bluerender.bat and add “ -Xmx8G ” after “java” (with spaces around!) to set it to 8GiB). (If you type “java -Xmx4G -XX:+PrintFlagsFinal -version | findstr MaxHeapSize”, it should show “4294967296”.) But again, that won’t change anything if the three other limits are lower.

Yes. The mode just affects the UI. Which mode was last used is stored in the LXF, so when you open a file, it defaults to that mode. But you can change the mode anytime with the menu View | New themes. When the “normal” mode was still more or less up-to-date, I used to go back and forth between the modes many times. Now, “normal” is so outdated that staying in Extemded is simpler. You get used to it. (In the last official updates, the new parts were not available in “normal” and the colour availability were already all wrong. That was two and a half years ago….)

1 and 2 (and 3): you installed the broken 4.3.12. See there’s a link to the installer for the “older” but not broken real 4.3.11 and solutions to install it on Windows 10. 4. It’s mainly a matter of taste, and parts availability. Studio can import and export LDD files, with a few errors. You can also use other tools to convert the files to LDraw (which Studio can import better). See 5. See

In Page Design, you can insert pages everywhere with the “+” icon on top of the page thumbnails. Then you have the “Insert” button/menu on middle top of the screen. You can insert text, images, …, and “Bill of Materials” = parts list.

Update 2020-08-20 Rematched: 2454 / 2454b.dat Brick 1 x 2 x 5 with Blocked Open Studs and Symmetric Inner Ridges 3755 / 3755a.dat Brick 1 x 3 x 5 without Inner Ridges Importable: 2454.dat / 2454 ~Brick 1 x 2 x 5 (Obsolete) 3755.dat / 3755 ~Moved to 3755a 46212a.dat / 2454 Brick 1 x 2 x 5 with Hollow Studs without Inner Ridges Added Custom Assemblies: 22127 / 22127.dat Electric Control+ Hub 22169 / 22169.dat Electric Control+ L Motor 22172 / 22172.dat Electric Control+ XL Motor 54675 / 54675.dat Electric Spike Prime Large Motor md5sum: 72f94b467013612cc0d2644e4065ef17

@Stephan In the announcement thread, you said 22169 instead of 46882 for the added decor

I saw that afterward and “Dark” is a typo because I started to wrote “Dark Turquoise” first. Oh, oopsie, a spurious 7 in the Blue component (7239 instead of 239). Updated. (The RGB are those of LDraw.)

Okay, I made a gitlab repository here. I added the new official colours: 341 Tr. Bright Orange Glitter 351 Tr. Bright Green Glitter 353 Vibrant Coral 360 Tr. Clear Opal 362 Tr. Blue Opal 364 Tr. Med. Red. Violet Opal And added a name to all the colours LDD already knew. There’s an LXF with all the colours used. If someone wants to fork, make pull request, or simply send me the German names….

LEGO colour 298’s official name is “Cool Silver, Drum Laquered.” “Silver Ink” is 336 (already in LDD too). See http://ryanhowerter.net/colors.php There are many other unnamed colours in LDD (the colours exist but don’t have a name, and are not readily accessible). I’m not sure it would be useful to add them to the palette(s) (they are too many, they are outdated, not even really used when they were in production, etc.) but maybe their names could be added. I’ll see if I can do it and provide the files in a simple way for @Stephan to include them. I would also suggest (re)adding 107 Dark Bluish Green / Dark Turquoise / Teal to CurrentMaterials.xml. It has been revived a few years ago

They should be visible and usable in LDD Extended (menu View| New themes). If they are not, there’s two possible problems: You have to rename db.lif to something else (e.g. “db-orig.lif”). When you extract the latest .rar file, there’s a “20200805” root directory. It’s the contents of this directory that should be in the “db” directory, not “2020805”.

LDD Mindstorms mode and LDD “normal” mode allow to “filter by boxes” (icon on the bottom of the parts palette). The “boxes” are defined as LIFs (placed in the directory Palettes next to db.lif), so you may look how they are structured and make your own. Note though that LDD extended doesn’t allow to filter on anything: it always shows all the parts. So you’ll surely have to switch modes often or stay in one of the crippled modes. Another possibility would be to put all the custom parts in their own category. You’ll need to edit all the .xml and change the category number and name.

No, I wasn’t referring to that (the messages are too recent, heck, the whole thread is too recent). I was just saying what happened in my installation. The fact that I’m using Wine may have an incidence on that, or not, but for me it doesn’t work in a directory, only in a LIF. The conclusion is: it’s possible and easy to add colours, and, sometimes, you need to recreate a LIF.

Try this one. (I guess Stephan missed the column in https://… , so the forum added http:// in front, which makes it http://https//… and not working.) (Google Sheets needs you to have an account….) Well said.

Update 2020-08-05 Rematched: 62808 / 40359a.dat Minifig Key Importable: 62808.dat / 62808 ~Moved to 40359a Added Custom Parts: 46834 / 46834.dat Technic Clutch with Axle Connector Outer Side 46835 / 46835.dat Technic Clutch with Axle Connector Inner Side 46882 / 46882.dat Technic Panel 15 x 2 x 7 Mudguard with Trapezoidal Arch 65413 / 65413.dat Technic Gear 28 Tooth Double Bevel with Peghole 65414 / 65414.dat Technic Differential Casing for 5 Internal Gears Modified Custom Part: 22969 / 22969.dat Wheel 56 x 46 Technic Racing Added Custom Assemblies: 40918 / 40918-f1.dat Technic Linear Actuator 12 x 2 x 2 (Contracted) Note on Customized Part: 47996 Boat Rigging 4 x 28 Rectangular is now flexible, and therefore LDD won’t convert it. lxf2ldr will convert it without flexing it as the part isn’t in LSynth. md5sum: 1103713abeaf19fbdccedf003e5a0088

Well, then it seems the bounding box is what defines the center of a part for the conversion because I had to remove a 90° rotation for 377203 (plus a translation). And for 35442, there was a 0.8 cm move on Z (a 0.4cm translation had to be changed to a 1.2cm one). And it appears it’s the difference with the older version: the bounding boxes (Bounding and GeometryBounding) both being moved 0.8cm for minZ. Interesting. Though, I’m not sure it would be really useful to automatize the transformations. Oh yes, I read that but didn’t connect the two

Also, there are decorations referenced in DecorationMapping.xml that are not in the git repo. Seems to be ElementIDs associated with standard parts but without the images. Some incomplete tests?

Update 2020-08-04b Added Custom parts: 15522 / 15522.dat Minifig Head Simpsons Marge Simpson 15523 / 15523.dat Minifig Head Simpsons Bart Simpson 15524 / 15524.dat Minifig Head Simpsons Lisa Simpson 15525 / 15525.dat Minifig Head Simpsons Maggie Simpson 15527 / 15527.dat Minifig Head Simpsons Homer Simpson 22969 / 22969.dat Wheel 56 x 46 Technic Racing 32296 / 32296.dat Tyre 50/ 29 x 54 Technic Racing 32298 / 32298.dat Tyre 61/ 41 x 54 Off Road 46334 / 46334.dat Wheel 17 x 75 Motorcycle Solid (needs Work) 46335 / 46335.dat Tyre 38/ 22 x 75 Mock-Up (needs work) 65617 / 65617.dat Brick 3 x 3 x 1 Corner Round with Curved Top 67140 / 67140.dat Tyre 28/ 48 x 75 Motorcycle with Racing Tread Modified Custom parts: 35442 / 35442.dat Plate Gear 6 Tooth 2 x 2 377203 / 37720c.dat Animal Bat Emblem 1 x 2 md5sum: 4c10ab4bae81cef8736bb554e0d2a86b