Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:03:55 -0400 http://www.ldraw.org/ LDraw.org en-us http://www.ldraw.org/images/ http://www.ldraw.org/ admin@ldraw.org http://www.ldraw.org/Article517.html We've a new round of models and parts in our MOTM contest. Have a look at the voting page and cast your vote! Willy Tschager LDraw Administration Team Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:03:55 -0400 http://www.ldraw.org/Article515.html With the increasing popularity of social networking tools we now present the LDraw Facebook group and LDraw flickr group. Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:53:11 -0400 http://www.ldraw.org/Article514.html Congratulations to Tim Gould, one of LDraw.org's webmasters and member of the 2008/2009 LDraw Steering Committee, who has been chosen as LEGO Ambassador representing LDraw.org to the LEGO Group! Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:48:19 -0400 http://www.ldraw.org/Article513.html Congratulations to the winners of the May 2008 Model/Scene/Part Of The Month contests: POTM - Best Part, Door 1 x 8 x 6 Frame by Willy Tschager [Holly-Wood] and LEGO Universe Team POTM – Most Desired Part, Window 1 x 4 x 2 Plane w. Single Hole Top a. Bottom for Glass by Michael Heidemann [mikeheide] The voting for the June 2008 contests is now open. Visit the voting page to cast your vote. Sorry, no MOTM or SOTM this month. So far we have only 2 MOTM entry. Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:50:09 -0400 http://www.ldraw.org/Article509.html The SteerCo and Jessiman family are pleased to announce that the James Jessiman Memorial Award (JJMA) for 2007 will be awarded to Kevin Clague. Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:44:01 -0400 http://www.ldraw.org/Article506.html LDraw's history hasn't been updated for a long time. With permission from BrickJournal publisher Joe Meno we are going to mirror an article published in BrickJournal, Spring 2006, Volume #1, Issue 4, which covers also the missing years 'til 2004. This leaves us with 2005, 2006 and 2007. Browsing the various newsgroups a Lugnet I compiled a chart of the highlights, but the list is far from being complete. Feel free to add the missing pieces to this post at Lugnet. Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:28:13 -0500 http://www.ldraw.org/Article503.html LDraw.org has been granted all the permissions for the new All-In-One-Installer it has sought and based on these permissions a new license scheme for the installer has been chosen. Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:05:12 -0500 http://www.ldraw.org/Article496.html The winners of the 2007/2008 LDraw Standard Committee (LSC) election are (in alphabetical order by last name): Travis Cobbs Mike Heidemann William Howard Philippe Hurbain Orion Pobursky Congratulations to the new LDraw Standard Committee (LSC) members! Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:05:07 -0400 http://www.ldraw.org/Article493.html When the Lego Universe Team has started to share rough data of 80 parts http://www.ldraw.org/Article489.html and soon after I've got feedback from part authors that because of their excellent quality those parts were heavyweights and would give us a hard time reducing the file size I was curious to what extend I could strip them down. After approx. 10 working hours my part was cut by 92%. Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:09:10 -0400 http://www.ldraw.org/Article490.html The chart lists brick shapes we've got from the LEGO Universe Team. They need some clean-up to be suitable for the LDraw Parts Tracker. If you wanna contribute just download the file you want work on, but don't forget to email the LDraw Administration Team telling the part number your working on - your name will be associated with the part in order to avoid overlap. Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:17:17 -0400 http://www.ldraw.org/Article489.html As announced in this article 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. Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:02:34 -0400 http://www.ldraw.org/Article484.html Dear contributor to the LDraw System Of Tools, we would like to include your program in our new LDraw.org All-In-One-Installer, to be published by LDraw.org. You might have already agreed to a similar permission in the past but the LDraw SteerCo's concern is that the permissions have been sent to a personal mailbox and do not have a common wording. The permission template comes in two versions: * Third Party Permission for a group of authors * Third Party Permission for a sole owner of all copyright Please pick the one that suits you most, print, sign and return a scanned copy of the permission. Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:21:02 -0400 http://www.ldraw.org/Article475.html This gallery provides an overview of RACHAL entries for 'Polar'. Any entry submitted to us will be posted here as soon as possible. If you enjoy rendering LDraw models the please check out this gallery or RACHAL - The RAytracing CHALlenge Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.ldraw.org/Article476.html The LDraw Administration Team proudly presents the third RACHAL – The RAytraching CHALlenge to spur people's creativity and show different interpretations of the same source material. Please note that this is not a contest! All entries will be added immediately to a gallery at LDraw.org to be shown but not voted. Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.ldraw.org/Article473.html Orion Pobursky was formally presented with his 2006 James Jessiman Memorial Award plaque at the BrickWorld 2007 awards ceremony on Saturday. LDraw.org co-founder and former Steering Committee Chairman Tim Courtney did the honors. Orion is the fifth recipient of the JJMA since James' parents, Don & Robyn Jessiman, commissioned the award in 2001. Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.ldraw.org/Article472.html This gallery pays tribute to the 10th anniversary of James Jessiman's passing. Any entry submitted to us will be posted here as soon as possible. If you want to add your own tribute please read this page. Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:49:35 -0400 http://www.ldraw.org/Article471.html On the 25th July 1997, James Jessiman passed away due to complications from the flu. The LDraw Steering Committee would like to commemorate the 10th anniversary of this sad day with a tribute page to James and his great foundation. We invite you to send in a picture of a: 1 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3002.dat (a red Brick 2x3 for all those who are not CAD nerds). Your contributions will be collected in a gallery on the site. If you do not feel comfortable with radiosity or hires-rendering and your images are usually outputs of MLCad this is not a problem - we accept every kind of format, sketches, artwork or even photographs but we obviously prefer “LDraws”. Furthermore we kindly ask you to limit the size to 640x480 pixel. The rest is entirely up to you – no guidelines, no deadline (though it would be nice having your tribute by July 25th). Feel free to add a short text to your entry of LDraw.org's icon. Entries should be sent to the webmasters with the subject “LDraw - 10th anniversary” by using the following address: webmaster@#say-no-to-spam#ldraw.org (don't forget to delete the spamblocker) The SteerCo member's tributes have already been added to the gallery. Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:48:20 -0400 http://www.ldraw.org/Article470.html Title: Dave, What are you doing Dave? Name: Mike Gallagher (MIKESLEGO) Sat, 23 Jun 2007 07:54:27 -0400 http://www.ldraw.org/Article468.html Here is the list of files in the official library, whose original author has not affirmed the CA and and therefore need to be re-written by CA-authors. William Howard and Guy Vivan have already put a lot of effort in this task, with only a few parts left but also those have to be substituted. If anyone would like to re-write these from scratch - without copying the original author's work, then please do so and send to the LDraw admins (parts@ldraw*no-spam-please*.org) for submission to the Parts Tracker. As we go through the library to reformat the headers, we may find other files with significant changes made by non-CA authors. We'll deal with those on a case by case basis. Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:56:01 -0400 http://www.ldraw.org/Article465.html Title: Comic Sans Name: Tim Gould Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:02:46 -0400 http://www.ldraw.org/Article463.html Congratulations to the winners of the May 2007 Model/Scene Of The Month contests: MOTM, Autobus Iveco 480.12 by Luca Giannitti SOTM, Evening in the city by Peter Smet The voting for the June 2007 contests is now open. Unfortunately we've got only one entry for the Scene of the Month and have to postpone the contest to July. Visit the voting page to cast your vote. Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:14:16 -0400 http://www.ldraw.org/Article462.html Title: Hacked Name: Willy Tschager Wed, 30 May 2007 10:38:54 -0400 http://www.ldraw.org/Article459.html Title: login denied Name: Andreas Weissenburg Sun, 27 May 2007 13:26:56 -0400 http://www.ldraw.org/Article458.html Congratulations to the winners of the April 2007 Model/Part of the month contests: MOTM, USS-Wolfram by Emory Dunn POTM–Best Part, Minifig Torso with Telephone Pattern by Michael Heidemann [mikeheide] POTM–Most Desired Part, Minifig Torso with Telephone Pattern by Michael Heidemann [mikeheide] The voting for the May 2007 contests is now open. Unfortunately we've got NO entry for the Parts of Month and have to postpone the contest to June. Visit the voting page to cast your vote. Tue, 01 May 2007 06:53:38 -0400 http://www.ldraw.org/Article454.html Title: The Rescue Name: Arno van der Heijden Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:38:50 -0400