Lipko

Maybe it's not the best fitting forum, but I only build in Technic and Technic instructions may be a bit different than systems models. How long does instructions making take for you experienced instruction makers with Ldraw tools? And what is the longest part? Building the model? Stepping the model? Adding rotations, arrows and floating parts? Setting up the callouts and overall layout in LPub? Finishing touches and error checking? I'm in the middle of instruction making for a 2300-part Technic model, I'm done with the modelling and stepping part and just started to add arrows and floating parts. I have been working on it since two months now, pretty much all my free time is going into it and I'm really getting to the point to just ask someone else to finish the instructions since I don't have any time for building. My computer also seems to be not up to the task, everything is slow, there are render glitches in LPub (some parts are transparent in the BOM), MLCad seems to have a bug (?) too: buffer exchange objects (floating parts and arrows) appear/disappear fine in view mode but if a sub-part has buffer exchange objects, they all show in the main file of the multipart file in view mode. This makes things obscured and makes instruction making a nightmare. Checking in LPub in parallel is no option, because it is so slow (every step takes 4-5 seconds to load, jumping to specific page numbers make the program hang for minutes). I'm asking because if it's not so much work for a pro to make instructions from a completely modelled and stepped model, they I will ask someone to make it for me because I see it will take months for me to finish. Thanks for any feedback in advance.

You could as well just use 3 pulley wheels. Perfectly legal, looks the same, simpler, and I think it would hold even better.

I was waiting for a bigger scale supercar from you, and I'm not disappointed to say the least... Beautiful shaping, awesome and realistic proportions, the best custom Lego supercar I have seen. I'm still waiting for a manual supercar from you :)

Never mind, I found the issue: I played around with rendering parameters in LDView. So problem solved. EDIT: Thank you for the answer anyway!

Hi all! There's an issue with LPub (version 4.0.0.11): everything appears as wireframe only objects. I used this LPub version without issue before, I didn't find any setting that could do this "feature", at the issue is there with other files too. The parts in the BOM looks fine. The issue is not just a display issue, here's the PDF output of the program: Note, that there are some arrows too, they also appear transparent (I checked with a different background color, the surfaces have the same color as the background). Apparently the shaded surfaces are not rendered, only the visible outlines. Or dunno. Thank you for answers in advance, I will reinstall LPub or all the Ldraw package if necessary.

Never mind, they were separate files that I imported later into the mpd.

Thank you for the answer, yes, it's a bit cleaner. Is there a way to find the dependencies, because I do see some separate ldr files too?

Hi all! Sorry if there's a general topic for a simple question like this, but I'm not sure about one thing: Is everything stored physically in the mpd file or the ldr submodel files are stored somewhere separately? My hunch is that everything is in the mpd file since I cannot find the individual ldr files even with search tools. But the fact that the submodels seemingly have the ldr extensions and that the final mpd file is not as large as an ldd file for the same model with all parts implies that something strange is going on. Thanks for any answers in advance!

So Hungary he could eat Turkey Anyhoo, I love the build so far, so clean looking

Come on guys, give this guy a break. This MOC is not bad at all, sure, one could squeeze a 7-speed sequential gearbox and a brake system* there too probably, but the features this MOC have are pretty much enough for such a scale. *really, show me a fully suspended 4-wheel-drive RC car with fake engine in such scale.

You deserve it more than me.

I guess you'll get better advice, but I just do some post process brightness/contrast adjusting.

You should put this awesome model on Rebrickable too.

Too much gearing up, I guess. If you connect the fake engine to the axle that has the one piece of z=20 gear (instead of the axle with the z=12 gear) than it should perform better. This issue was one reason for me to go back to 3+R gearboxes. The direction depending friction is also quite usual with gearboxes. My guess is that the idler gears on the not-engaged axles does something differently when rotated in the opposite direction. No time to do a full analysis... Any yes, this is a great community. No wonder if I refresh the forum at every five minutes from 6am to 10pm.

It is possible to make anti-roll system which relies on prings instead of torsion bars. One of the systems I posted doesn't have torsion bars, and a variation of the McLaren setup could be built with springs too. I'm planning a off-roader chassis at the moment that will have a setup similar to the McLaren setup, I think it should work well, but I'll see.

Some Racecars and formula cars use springs for the anti-roll system. Some McLaren cars uses bending bars. https://scarbsf1.wordpress.com/category/ferrari-f150/

The funny thing is that people always reference 8880, while the only realistic thing about it was the Ackermann geometry. Almost everything else was totally unrealistic (no opening doors, no advanced suspension geometry (though the hubs where the best, that's true), chain driven fake engine, no reverse in gearbox, opening bonnet with the bonnet deforming, etc). Still, it was an awesome set.

Yes, that was my experience too: too much force is required to operate the new driving rings both during engaging and disengaging. An due to the nature of the crank mechanism, this often resulted in both driving rings being engaged. I didn't dare to use the old rings with smooth connectors, because the consensus (as far as I know) is that this technique is not really legal. Maybe I was wrong, but I dumped the whole project because of that...

Just take a look at Nico71's creations.

I wouldn't worry about bump steer or negative Ackermann effect, since the hubs have so huge slack that it will cancel every other effect

@deetha: nope, the suspension will be similar to 42039, so the top A-arm is pivoted in its middle (what you saw as the anti-roll bar).

Young kids can handle Technic just fine, I don't think they need to be introduced slowly. BTW I don't remember which was my first Technic set, but I got 8865 at the age of 7 and 8880 at the age of 9 and I could build it just fine. I built the 8837 on a bus (on the way from Italy or France to Hungary, I can't remember) at the age of 6 or 7.

There are some MOCs recently that would deserve to be Front Paged, Jim is too busy I guess.

I'm grean with envy. Anyway, that's an awesome car model. I don't remember if I said it already, but you are my favourite Lego car builder. I only miss the adjustable rear spoiler/wing

Wow. At first it looked very off, but then I saw the pictures of the real thing I was sold. Great recreation! Lancia Delta S4?