Topic: News

Last week, Bricks on the Brain released a new resource for LEGO® fans online -- a building instruction portal. This new section of the BotB site is intended to be a one-stop reference point for fan-created building instructions on the internet.

Today LDraw.org announces it will be holding an introductory session at BrickFest 2002, the AFOL community's premier LEGO® fan event. BrickFest will be held in Arlington, VA. (See the BrickFest site for details).

A new project developed by Lang Attila D. and Kiss Attila Csongor of Hungary may give LDraw users the feature they want most. The new LDraw Connection Database is a project which proposes a system of connector definitions on the parts libraries to allow the pieces to click together like the actual LEGO pieces they represent. This has been a long-awaited feature discussed periodically among developers but not yet acted upon.

BricksWest is coming up fast, and LDraw.org will be there in full force! Confirmed in attendance will be Tim Courtney, Bram Lambrecht (author of the original LDraw and LEdit Tutorial), and Ahui Herrera (LDraw/POV-Ray animation pioneer). We're still waiting on a confirmation from Leonardo Zide, local to the southern California area where the event is to be held and author of the LDraw editor LeoCAD.

[Editor's note: This is a reprint of LDMC's Press Release dated Monday, January 21, 2002]

The LDraw.org Staff would like to announce the complete overhaul of the LDraw.org website! The past several months at LDraw.org have been spent putting together this new site with a focus on ease of navigation, straightforward information, and ease of updating with the intention of releasing new content on a regular basis.

LDraw model files now have a new default file extension. The LDraw.org team decided to act recently on a long standing sentiment in the LDraw/CAD Development groups on LUGNET that 'DAT' was too ambiguous of a file extension. Having the default model extension as a .DAT file often hurt other associations on users' computers because it is rather generic (many other programs use .DAT). This problem gets solved with the decision to change the default LDraw Model File extension to .LDR.

The greatest LEGO event in Europe from 20 - 23 October 2001 in the IJsselhallen in Zwolle (The Netherlands) was a succes! With 40.000 visitors it was the biggest LEGO event ever organized in Europe by LEGO Benelux, The IJsselhallen, Fox Kids and the "Bouwsteen".

Today LDraw.org announces it will be holding several sessions at BricksWest 2002, the LEGO event designed for Adult Fans of LEGO, their families, and children of all ages. The event will be held in Carlsbad, CA, the home of LEGOLAND California. (See the BricksWest site for details).

This article has been moved to the Community: Events section, under the BrickFest Event Report.