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  1. SylvainLS
    First, it was a joke, not a serious critique. I’m sure you do what’s possible for you (and to be sure I’m correctly understood: there’s no sarcasm here, you managed to produce a great tool and to offer reliable services, on a par with commercial tools). The part I quoted is just the sort of quotes the jinxing fairies are watching for. But all jokes also have an anchor in reality, so, considering your answer, I guess it hit a real nerve I don’t “preach” (which I will take in the meaning of “recommend earnestly,” not “give a sermon”, as I don’t feel religious about these things), I answer questions, inform, and correct misconceptions to the measure of my abilities and knowledge. I believe I have recommended people to try Mecabricks as often as I recommended them to try Studio (most often in the same sentence). Now, it’s true I prefer open formats, like LDraw, and am very prone to recommend them but then, first, their advantages are facts, not opinion or creed, and, second, you should know that’s one of the many points I fault Studio for, on this forum and others: their format isn’t open, they modified the LDraw format with no documentation, and without talking to the LDraw community. Truth is, I’m just like Grumpy (except for the beard, and the height, and being one who would try to be funny) but every “creed” believes I “preach” for the other one
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    Famous last words #48.
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    Not true anymore. Studio just added flexible parts support. The number of parts is limited for now but the UI and results are great
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    You could also have typed v twice more, it’s a cycle.
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    You can download it from lxf2ldr’s gitlab repository.
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    ⅚th to be exact
  7. SylvainLS
    Update 2019-03-09 Added: 13608 / 13608.dat Minifig Gun Laser Pistol with Rounded Heat Diffusers 15490 / 15490.dat Minifig Armor Shoulder Pads with 4 Spikes 20904 / 20904.dat Minifig Helmet SW Stormtrooper Ep. 7 25264 / 25264.dat Minifig Headdress with Ears 48489 / 48489.dat Visor with Pointy Sides and Eye Slit 89520 / 89520.dat Minifig Helmet Castle Closed with Eye Slit Renamed: 44302 / 44302b.dat Hinge Plate 1 x 2 Locking with Dual Finger on End Vertical without Tip Groove Importable: 44302a.dat Hinge Plate 1 x 2 Locking with Dual Finger on End Vertical with Tip Groove 44302.dat ~Moved to 44302a.dat md5sum: 9bc5b5a6460a4a1a00e0295ff7b115f1
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    Are you the one who posted about it on the Studio forum? Anyway, did you try changing the graphics level (in Appearance) in Studio? That level affects 1. the editor (the intended purpose), 2. the collision detection (a very nasty side effect), 3. the Eyesight renderer (another nasty side effect). The unwanted effects (2 and 3) have been reported and “fixed” several times
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    Update 2019-03-02 Added: 18970 / 18970.dat Animal Clam Lower Half with 2 x 2 Plate 21459 / 21459.dat Minifig Sword Katana Type 3 (Square Guard with Smooth Endcap) 26051 / 26051.dat Minifig Head Sonic the Hedgehog 27062 / 27062.dat Animal Bird Parrot with Wide Beak and Tail 32602 / 32602.dat Minifig Hair Wavy Windblown to One Side 32905 / 32905.dat Technic Worm Gear with Reduced Axlehole 62359 / 62359.dat Wheel Cover 7 Spoke for Wheel 14 x 18 93219 / 93219.dat Minifig Baseball Cap with Button on Top Corrected: 6228 / 6228b.dat Animal Dolphin Renamed: 30191 / 30191-f1.dat Bar Flexible H-shaped with Holders Importable: 30173b.dat Minifig Sword Katana Type 2 (Square Guard) 30191.dat ~Moved to 30191-f1.dat md5sum: e27f33b4620e57b3c496c0eadff0f7e5
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    And the other way around? Converting your generated landscape into a custom Studio part. Well, okay, Studio is a resource hog… LDD at least removes connected studs and simplifies the bottoms too (put enough round plates under any brick and you’ll see the brick “fillled”).
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    LEGO has abandonned LDD. Period. There’s no update on the Windows version either. The last updates were just part updates, for both OS. People have had problems installing it on Windows 10 too. You have several options now (or at least soonish): Install a virtual machine (Windows or MacOS) with an old version of the OS, but that could also become a(n even bigger) PITA in a few years when you won’t be able to easily find a VM that works for old versions of the OS. Migrate to another CAD, LDraw-based, like LDCad, LeoCAD, or even Studio, or not LDRaw-based, like MecaBricks, and use the internal LXF import features or other tools like lxf2ldr.html to convert your old LXF.
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    Not exactly. On the real bricks, the technic hole is at 5.72mm (ref. Jamie Berard’s presentation). LDD is just a bit more exact than LDraw. As for the different parts living together in LDD, we already have them with SNOT parts (centered at 5.6mm) and technic holes at 5.8mm: sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t as anyone who tried to make some official sets can attest (mix of half pins in technic holes and SNOT bricks, plates overhanging over parts attached to technic holes…).
  13. SylvainLS
    Update 2019-02-16 Added: 11096 / 11096.dat Minifig Axe with Hole 13251 / 13251.dat Minifig Hair Female with Elaborate Knot Bun 17351 / 17351.dat Minifig Pig Mask 32008 / 32008.dat Technic Scuba Flipper 92083 / 92083.dat Minifig Hair Female Long Straight with Left Side Part Rematched: 2680 / 2680b.dat Support 4 x 4 x 5 Stanchion with Normal Studs Importable: 2680.dat Support 4 x 4 x 5 Stanchion 2680a.dat Support 4 x 4 x 5 Stanchion with Tall Studs md5sum: 69efed779d491c00984d78072e8f27a5
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    Hi, I answered your question on BrickLink’s forum: https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1129345
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    FWIW, I had a travel chessboard whose magnetic pieces were the size of a Trophy/Statuette (90398)….
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    You could still export to LDraw, fine-place the part(s) in any LDraw editor, and then import….
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    No one got a “sorry, your submission was fine but didn’t make it to the finale, maybe next time”? Or even a “sorry, your submission was rejected because (guns|alcohol|…)”? I mean, you enter contests to test yourself and get feedback. Not just for the price.
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    Update 2019-01-24 Added: 16497 / 16497.dat Minifig SW Imperial Officer Cap 93559 / 93559.dat Minifig Tool Hockey Stick with 1.1 L Bar Corrected: 62821 / 62821.dat Technic Differential with One Gear 28 Tooth Bevel Renamed: 6228b.dat Animal Dolphin md5sum: 2b2221ad38b38d92fbbe1dc642658d5b
  19. SylvainLS
    Thanks and, er, oopsie? Yes, a misktake in ldraw.xml. One of the parts that checked too quickly back then. I’ll correct it soonish (there’s already a couple new parts in the queue).
  20. SylvainLS
    Hi all, I just released an extra portable version of lxf2ldr: lxf2ldr.html (still on gitlab, next to its brother, and also in GPLv3+). Yes, .html like in HTML/ECMAScript (aka JavaScript) but it’s totally local and self-contained! No compilation, no dependencies, no web server or arcane application (well, except for a d/recent web browser). Just download the zip (or tarball…), unpack it somewhere and open the file lxf2ldr.html in your browser. (See the senseless green/yellow coloured bar ? Click on the little cloud just below, on the right, just next to “Find File.”) Okay, okay, the look is spartan but it gets the job done. Tell me what you think… or not BTW, this is the initial release, I haven’t tested all the cases / stumbled upon all the of the language (two days on this and I know why I hadn’t touched JavaScript since the last century), so any issue, bug, glitch is welcome.
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    Update 2019-01-19 Added: 11156 / 11156.dat Minifig Weapon Blade 3.4 L with Bar 3.6 L 15455 / 15455.dat Tipper Bucket 4 x 6 with Closed Studs Front Lip 24496 / 24496.dat Minifig Hat Ninjago Wrap Importable: 35243.dat =Windscreen 3 x 4 x 1.333 41740.dat Plate 1 x 4 with Two Studs and Groove md5sum: ed21038ed40292ae21fc7a570071eeb3
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    Or put a pin in the lime/green part, and set the angle between the new pin and the build to 0° (or 90°, or ±180°, or −90° depending on what you want).
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    Yes but as 31084 has already been done in LDraw (and it’s easily importable in Studio (proof: Philo’s renders) and we don’t have a dedicated topic for offical sets made with Studio), I took the question as a question about LDD
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    With the principal parts, the rails, missing, it isn’t very interesting….
  25. SylvainLS
    Some parts haven’t been defined to be bendable/flexible, so they don’t bend/flex. Nothing can be done especially as LDD has been abandoned. The last part updates also were somewhat incomplete. E.g. no colour definition for parts, so they are only available in Extended; no patterns….
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