LEGO DD export

how can you export ldd mods in blender?

i dont think LEOCAD will work.

how can i use the python?

You can not directly import ldd models in blender.
BUT you can export the model in LDD as a .ldr file (open you model, CTRL+E, choose the filetype “ldraw-file”) and import this file into blender.
To do so, you need to install the LDR-importer (addon) and additionally the LDraw program [at least the LDraw parts library] (the importer uses files from this program).

LDraw: http://www.ldraw.org/help/getting-started.html
LDR-Importer:https://github.com/le717/LDR-Importer/releases

Hope that helps,

LukeV1

they are all a same link

I am sorry, I just got a bad problem. and the Ldraw didn’t load it right.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]423878[/ATTACH]you see as I export those mods into “LDraw” those parts gone wonk, and some have disappeared.

You are right. :slight_smile:
Here is the correct link: https://github.com/le717/LDR-Importer/releases (also updated it in the above post)

Unfortunately the image is not displayed (invalid attachment), can you please reupload it?


http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=6370204

whare can i put the PY in?

It is quite easy:

  • save the file somewhere on your hard drive (do not extract it)
  • open blender, go in the user preferences (CTRL + ALT + U)
  • change to the addons tab
  • click on “install from file” at the bottom
  • select your file

Regarding your image about missing parts:
I encountered that problem several times too. Unfortunately it had different origins.

  • Sometimes it was enough to open the exported file in the LDview app - it downloads the missing parts and everything is fine
  • Sometimes you have in LDD two parts which are looking exactly the same - but if you use the “wrong” one, LDrwaw can not handle it. Therefore I suggest you checking if two versions of the missing parts are existing
  • Sometimes by googling the name of the missing part you can manually download them (open the model in LDraw, copy the “error” part number to google)
  • In some cases the part just do not exist - maybe because it is new, maybe because somebody missed to implement it - the only chance to get this is (at least as far as I know), to export a similiar part and “remodel” it manually in blender

can you show me video?

i see now but, ldconfig.ldr is missing from C:\LDraw

and (In some cases the part just do not exist - maybe because it is new, maybe because somebody missed to implement it - the only chance to get this is (at least as far as I know), to export a similiar part and “remodel” it manually in blender) can you teach me?

A video of what?

is this error ocurring in LDraw or the blender addon?
(to solve this problem you need to know where your parts library is located on your hard drive, so try to find that out)

Unfortunately it is not easy to give general advice on how to model a part - it depends too much on its actual shape. But generally (re-)modeling parts in blender is not that hard, just search on youtube for some modelling tutorials…