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Hm, I know now why you had issues fixing the pen. There is an error in the arms. The 2x4 Liftarm needs to be placed one hole to the front and fitted with two tow-ball pins. Now the rubberbands go in easy! See the picture over there

So, here's V14 it looks good to me and I did it till step 53, page 38. Don't comment on steps 6 and 7, I need to polish them :-) AND I did not incorporate the improvement to hold the gear. I will do them independently of the other works that will continue on the model Now the motor-base needs some cleanup as there were the beams missing in the first step. I move one to the front, but it is better to unpack one of the sub-models as a step 1 for the motor base. The table needs to be optimized for the placement of the rubberbands. @philo: I did not clean them up and I used the MLCAD rubberbands so it will involve some tweaking to have them in a proper place. Can SR3D do this automatically? I think the Rotation Icon shall be placed in the PDF. This is a function I am dearly missing in LPUB. The definition of a ROTSTEP ICON, would not be much code in the LPUB file itself but would be great to have.

I consider myself done with the base ! Just letting LPUB produce all the pictures for a review. I have added a ton of arrows, some more sub-models. It should be fine by now. The table etc. would need some adjustment of the rotation steps which are currently in. I will upload V14 in about an hour.

There are many sets that have one or a few parts in an exclusive color combination (or a part combintaiton). May be accidental but looks more like it is done intentionally. So even if it is just a 1 x 1 Plate in some special color, you need this set to have it. I haven't paid attention to this recently but I guess it continues

That is interesting, so most probably some path definition in my ldraw config file is missing In the meantime I also tried to add the rubberbands at the platter submodel, V13 is here. I am currently re-arraning the steps 19 to 30 to make it build-able and show the half bush offset in the drive.

Nothing in the file! See my response above, it is somehow an issue of the location of the LSYNTH parts The electricity wire from the motor is missing the whole instructions. NOTE!!!: Even my LSYNTH Ddirectory is listed in the config of LDRAW. LDVIEW somehow does not render it through LPUB. LDVIEW is fine. WORKAROUND: I placed the necessary file (LS70.dat) into the "parts" directory seperately

That's good. I thought of using a half-bush in the assembly so you will see that the distance is not one hole but only half of it The rubberbands on the side need to go in during the table assembly. I had to laugh at your attempt to fix the pen! Great!

So, here we are, I have been busy updating the file taking into account legolijntje's comments on dropbox Step 6 page 2: very unclear. There are also invisible parts: pin invisible behind beam and blue pins. OPEN: Needs work, will make a sub out of them Step 5 page 7: the arrow of the sub model prevents to see clearly where the middle sub model has to be placed. CORRECTED: Have a look what I did with arrows Step 9 page 8: a rotation to a more front-view would be useful. ROTATED in a different way, better use Arrows Step 11 page 12: It was unclear for me that the sub model had to be placed over the edge on the end. Rotation step to show underside would be better. CORRECTED: Have a look what I did with arrows Step 18/19 page 15/16: Because I knew that both axles should only be pushed halfway through the middle hole, I did it right, but someone who doesn’t know can’t see it. This can’t be made clear in the instructions, but a note in the final pdf on these pages would do the job. OPEN: Still thinking how to present this best Step 20 page 16: Shouldn’t the 2 black pins be blue? CORRECTED: That’s right, no need for black Axle Pins Step 44 page 33: maybe an arrow? OPEN: TRUE, needs an arrow Step 45 page 34: the arrow of the callout points at the wrong side (it points at the same sub model, but the one that was added a bunch of page back). CORRECTED! Step 48 page 37: dark tan axle might need an arrow? OPEN: YES! Step 1-5 page 45-47: these loose pieces are annoying. The beams appear at step 6, but should be at step 1 to make building a lot easier. YES, we need to change the order of steps Sub model “base-motor.ldr” can be made a bit more compact. A little more steps a page. Step 19 page 58: the other pages have the flexible thing broken in subparts in the parts list, here it’s finally in one piece, but it’s the old version in the parts list (I believe)…. CORRECTED! Added an Ignore Statement Step 61 page 66: totally unable to see where to place the wheels. Needs an rotation step to the underside. CORRECTED! And will make them a SUB Page 67: needs a divider.Page 68: needs a divider. CORRECTED! Step 62 page 70: add a warning to make sure to place the levers into the driving rings. Can be done in the final pdf. OPEN Sub model “platter3.ldr” on page 76-78 can easily be placed on 1 page. The same model on the other side (page 93) is done correctly one 1 page. CORRECTED! Step 19 page 92: impossible to place the callout models, because you have to remove the 3L axles again toe place them. OPEN: This is part of the table Page 99: empty CORRECTED! wrong placement of NOSTEP Page 100: make clear that you have to remove the axle to place it and lock again with the axle. Needs an separate image, can be done in final pdf. OPEN Page 102: random “3” appears, there’s also a step 3 on the next page. CORRECTED! Step 4 page 104: the 2 red axles in the parts list were already added in de previous step. OPEN: Need to check Step 3-4 page 106: the red axles are placed both in step 3, but 1 is shown in the parts list at step 3 and 1 in step 4. OPEN: Need to check Step 2 page 108: Unable to see the 2L beam and the arrow where to place it. Need a different viewing angle (rotation step). OPEN: You are right! Step 3 page 109: arrow of the callout is pointing a bit weird. OPEN The electricity wire from the motor is missing the whole instructions. NOTE!!!: Even my LSYNTH Ddirectory is listed in the config of LDRAW. LDVIEW somehow does not render it through LPUB. LDVIEW is fine. WORKAROUND: I placed the necessary file (LS70.dat) into the "parts" directory seperately There’s nowhere some information where to put the rubber bands (on the sides of the table and on the arms). Can be done using LSynth, but can also be done with some text or images in the final pdf. OPEN: HELP: Can somebody take a picture how exactly the rubberbands are fixed to make the LSYNTH for them

Loks like I still couldn't convince anybody on the font, well I give in :-) -I make the colors for the callout a bit darker! - Page 100 still working on >> Corrected that one! "LPUB NOSTEP" needs to be placed before "0 STEP" - Thanks for the pencil! Thanks for your efforts! Can you tell me tha pages in question, I ahve only issues wiht P100 Yes, I will work from V12 trying to fix the issues tonight

Oohhh, I was so happy to have found a font that would somehow represent the nice lines drawn by this machine... What do you prefer? I would like to use another one than boring Arial :-) Looking for something light

- Green Bush is changed to LBG - P-44 u-joint. I need to make a Ignore statement - P-45: I just took the base over from your V10, that's how the steps were. I can move them no issue - P-56 / P-66 can you add them? - P-100 The blank Page issue is due due the buffer exchange being done last togehter with a NOSTEP, LPUB is bit sensitive here. I had this before, need to try. - "buffer axles" Screenshot please, I don't know what you mean.

Ups, we moved to the second page! @DrJB: Thanks for the full screenshot. Here's V12 with part of the LPUB framework applied. my be you need the Font "Bradley Hand ITC" installed (Step numbers) Also a sample Pic in my BS-folder May be a watermark like a completed spirograph picture could be added, what do you think?

This is really great to see that somebody else is workin on this! I am also looking into an RF option for PF. My favorite is somehow the 868MHz spectrum. Did you look into PIC powered stuff, there are PIC processors that have the wireless stuff included. My intention was to have a 1:1 retrofit for the IR Receiver, same formfactor but with RF. Same reason as you said, IR is not very useful for exhibitions and with bright sunlight it is not reliable!

Can you attach a larger pic please? showing more of the environment, thanks

The best is we send you the final PDF. If you can edit a PDF that is the best then to tweak with the output of LPUB. Alright I will take these subfiles into my V11 then

Alright, I am working on a V11 right now. Base (fW) - Removed the white parts which I kept there as a reference, so it is clean now - change all the weird colors to the correct LEGO colors - extracted some assemblies into sub-models (16!) - planning to redo the order of some steps to make it easier and slimmer Front Gear Box (fW) - Changed the stepping as there is some repetitive building for the gears and managed to get it down to 13 steps from a whopping 36... Motor-Base (AR) - The wrong mounting point for the wheels are due to the 180° rotation of the sub-model "motor-base-sub1", this just needs to be rotated. Panel (AR) - may be give the step 1 a further breakdown Platter (AR) / Arm (AR) - no comments right now Also doing LPUB work right now :-) Will upload it in the evening

Did you clean the file up manually as well? Reason for asking is that in V8 my LDView shows me artefacts of other subfiles in e.g. "front-gearbox" and "panel". Panel showed the assembled turntable. When looking through the file, the denominator "FILE" was missing. Now in V9 those are corrected. Interesting if you did not do it manually... But you use SR3D, right?

Oh, there's a lot going on :-) I had just two days off the internet and we are far ahead! Those are the changes I have done to make the motor a seperate assembly. It includes white parts that shall be removed and yellow parts that replace them. I remove them in the next base so that it is clean. They were once hidden, but I guess SR3D made them visible (That's what Alasdair is using, I think) Yes, I am doing this. I have submodeled out most of the parts. Regarding the wheel-holder it happened between V7 and V8...

I would be careful with the transmitter as it is shown there. IR LEDs can draw quite a lot of current due to their mode of operation. What is the voltage the jack operates? I hope the jack would be overload protected Did you port the app? May I add a wish? Can you implement the extended address range as well? This would enable further 4 channels that will be outside the normal range of the standard LEGO PF-Remotes

I think we are pretty well on track. Base - the steps are pretty fine as they are now - some need to be made into a sub to reduce the overall steps - a few placement arrows are necessary to accommodate the pushing in of axles Front Gearbox: - I re-did the stepping to make the assembly easier - it is still somehow "wobbly" as the counterpart to fix them all (the 15L Beam) is only added in the end. - also needs some (a ton of) subs to make life easier in my opinion Table: - is done has a good stepping - it is a sub-model of the motor assembly now to make mounting easier without bending stuff - the beams to fix it to the motor assembly are now part of the motor assembly for a logical flow. Motor Assembly: - some Axle Pins needs to be put in the proper order (i.e. like LEGO builds: first in the axle hole the in the pin-hole) or do you care? Panel (operation) - This needs a bit more fine-tunig, breaking down some of the steps (no big deal) - Probably put some of the parts into submodels Arms - I am fine with them Platter - Stepping is good - some steps need to be put into the correct order, minor Cahnge - subs are ok - some parts are a bit out of place (e.g. the rubber things) I will have uploaded V4 which reflects the status listed above. I would continue the base and the front-gearbox For LPub: - Any special wishes for the fonts, colors, background pics, © notices etc? - PM me or comment here...

Good idea. Initially I did not think so, but the more I looked at the thing spinning in LDView, the more I grew into your idea. When placing this part you would still need to get an axle (of the 24t gear) into the hole and only then put the connectors onto the pins, but that would work out without too much stress on the parts. I make a branch :-) Edit: I made the branch, now in V3B for the time being. Colored green for the right part and dark turquoise for the left part. Looking at it, it was really a good idea, making the "8L w. stop assembly" really easy. Inserting it onto the axle of the 24t gear in a rotated position, moving it in and rotating it down to snap on the pin and the axle looks to be easy

V3 added Changes: - Moved the base to the main file - extracted the motor base as recommended by Philo - to extract the motor the central drive support needed to move. I have added this in YELLOW. - the old one is still there, however hidden in WHITE - moved the table base to the motor assembly for a better order of building without bending - rearranged the steps in the base to allow a better view for the assembly of the control arms - table support is stepped Open. - Control panel stepping - beautiful LPUB magic :-) feedback welcome!

You are right, separating the motor is even better. This requires a slight redesign in order not to attach the support for the drive that goes nearly straight from the motor to the gearbox to the motor support itself. Edit: Just extracting the motor assemly

Table base is done! Complete MPD based on Eric's last update from Bricksafe. Changes only in "table.ldr" submodel. The supports for the table should better be in the "base.ldr" as they cannot be mounted when the base is done (especially the two bent liftarms) Gerald

I uploaded a stepped base that makes assembly possible in the given steps (only around 60 something the 8L axle with stop needs to be added later, after the gears connect the front-gearbox to the base) It is here Feedback welcome!