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What is LDraw?
LDraw™ is an open standard for LEGO CAD programs that allow the user to create virtual LEGO models and scenes. You can use it to document models you have physically built, create building instructions just like LEGO, render 3D photo realistic images of your virtual models and even make animations. The possibilities are endless. Unlike real LEGO bricks where you are limited by the number of parts and colors, in LDraw nothing is impossible.
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Administration Announcement
L(EGO)Draw parts
Members of the Steering Committee (SteerCo) have been in contact with LEGO to look at ways of working together to ease the conversion between the LEGO Digital Designer and the LDraw System Of Tools. This relationship has led the LDraw Steering Committee to the Lego Universe project in regards to it's building tools and such. So to help the process along, The Lego Universe team has started to share information regarding the brick shapes to further the relationship.
As a first bunch we've got data of 80 parts and got permission to share them with the community, with the purpose to make them fit for the LDraw Parts Tracker. We are therefore looking for parts authors who are willing to clean up the rough data, do additional primitive substitution, care for the new header specs, stud orientation, BFC ...
Read full article: 'L(EGO)Draw parts' (832 bytes more)
Published By Holly-Wood on Aug 22, 2007 - 03:02 PM
Latest News
A quick reference to the candidates for the 2009/2010 LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) election. The information is drawn from posts on LUGNET and corrections are welcome, please email the webmasters.
It has passed another year since the last election of the LDraw.org
Standards Committee (LSC) were held - and again the SteerCo missed the actual
deadlines :-( Nominations are now open at LUGNET. All nominations must be received and recorded by November 14. Elections will be held from November 17 ‘til November 30.
The LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) is responsible for maintaining semi-regular internal discussions on pending file format issues, the overall progress of the LDraw file format and new or proposed developments made by different LDraw-based software authors. They adopt new official standards by voting on them, and publish documentation on LDraw.org following such a decision. The LSC has documented and will document past, current and future LDraw File Formats.
The LEGO Universe Team has shared another batch of part shapes with the community, with the purpose to make them fit for the LDraw Parts Tracker. This time things are a bit different. The package we’ve got contains also shapes which are already official parts or at the PT for certification. You can help out sorting by comparing the part numbers with the official parts, the PT and the shapes we already have.
More information can be found at the LDraw Wiki
Willy Tschager
LDraw Administration Team

Published By Holly-Wood on Oct 19, 2009 - 08:16 PM
LDraw models are great to look at, but are generally inappropriate for real-time rendering tasks such as video games. Here's why.
Note: Rephrased.
The 2009-02 LDraw parts update has been now been released.
This update includes 385 files in the core library, including 195 new parts, and many more files updated with improvements for Back Face Culling support. A further 8 parts have been redeveloped by authors who have affirmed the Contributor Agreement, replacing files that were not redistributable.
Following substantial work by Scott Wardlaw and Willy Tschager the colour configuration file has also been updated.
I just updated the MLCad.ini file accordingly to the latest LDraw.org Parts
Update 2009-01. The .ini file defines (among other thigns) the parts available
in MLCad's minifigure generator.
Download the file from my personal website: http://www.holly-wood.it/mlcad/ini-en.html
Willy Tschager
(LDraw Administration Team)

Published By Holly-Wood on May 05, 2009 - 11:15 AM
The 2009-01 LDraw parts update has been now been released.
This update includes 671 files in the core library, including 307 new parts, and
many more files updated with improvements for Back Face Culling support. A total
of 19 parts have been redeveloped by authors who have affirmed the Contributor
Agreement, replacing files that were not redistributable.
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