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July 17th, 2010 by Niels Horn in LDraw, LeoCAD, Slackware, Star Wars
New pieces libraries
LDraw.org released its second update for 2010 of the pieces library this month. As always, a short time afterwards the updated pieces library for LeoCAD was also released.
New LeoCAD version
A new version of LeoCAD (0.75.1) was also released, fixing the Minifig wizard that was broken in the previous Linux versions. With it, you can easily create minifigs using all possible combinations of arms, tools, etc. and insert the result in your model.
Here are some examples of what you can do with it:
Darth Vader
And after using l3p and povray to create a nice image:
Han Solo
And with some basic ray-tracing:
Downloading
The SlackBuilds have been submitted and are in the pending queue at SlackBuilds.org.
Pre-built packages can be found on my site…