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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.
A request from the LDraw.org Team
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Administration Announcement
The lack of parts updates
Over the past couple of years releases of new official parts have been less frequent than in the past. LDraw.org would like to apologise or these delays and explain the reason why.
Read full article: 'The lack of parts updates' (638 bytes more)
Published By Holly-Wood on Feb 09, 2007 - 12:38 PM
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
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

Published By Holly-Wood on Aug 01, 2008 - 07:03 AM
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!

Published By Holly-Wood on Jun 03, 2008 - 10:48 PM
The SteerCo and Jessiman family are pleased to announce that the James Jessiman Memorial Award (JJMA) for 2007 will be awarded to Kevin Clague.
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.
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.
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!

Published By Holly-Wood on Nov 02, 2007 - 12:05 AM
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%.
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.
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