Hi everybody,
It's publish time again!

The new release has just been published on my official website
http://staff.polito.it/sergio.reano

The most important news are
- Inclusion of the last official lDraw part update
- Single click to add a part from toolbox to model
- Animated flexible parts. Here is a link to a video that explains what I mean:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyXiCUromNc

I also recommend you to look at history tab for a brief of what changed

The application is available for free as always, but... well you know what I mean

Enjoy building!!!
Sergio

Thank you for your work.

Si j'ai bien tout suivi malgré mes lacunes informatiques, il s'agit d'une interface graphique pour ldraw?
Ce qui serait donc un équivalant à MlCAD... Quelle sont les différences notoires entre ces deux interfaces pour ceux qui l'ont testée?

I'm sorry to answer in English, but I'm Italian and my French is not so good.
Well, SR 3D Builder is an advanced CAD native for LEGO allowing you to build your model with PC.
It shares the same part library used by MLCad, can read MLCad file format and the saved model with extension .L3B can be reopened by MLCad.
The interface is totally different since it is fully 3D. It is more similar to Lego Digital Designer (I think you know it), but is by far more powerful even if a bit more complex to use at first sight.

It has facilities for connecting parts (really physic connection, not just a part near another like MLCad), mirror building, technic parts interaction, flexible part building and a lot of more...

But the real power of the application is it's advanced animation capability: it is able to analyze your model and animate complex sequences of gear an hinges to reproduce real LEGO model movements. Everything without any user input about rotation axles, speeds or connection: just a single click on the part you want to start the animation from and the application will do the rest. And in real time !!!

I'm sorry for the enthusiasm, but I'm the author of the program !

Sergio

Je viens de tester rapidement le logiciel de xSergio74 et ça me semble trés intéressant !
Mais je n'arrive pas à clisser-déplacer les pièces ajouter ou celles déjà mises ?

Hi,
Please remember that software is still developing so not all expected functionality are supported or work the correct way.
Anyway I cannot understand what is not working since I cannot correctly translate from French the second line.

Byes

Sergio

....
But I can't move parts which are added or already placed.

Je teste ça en rentrant a la maison ce week end.

Arrivederci

Why not?
- Ensure you have no part selected (surrounded by a pink box) or press <ESC> key to cancel your current selection
- move the mouse over the part you would like to select for moving (a pink box will track the part your mouse is on)
- left click on it to select and move it to a new place (remember that to move a part you need to have the left mouse button clicked while moving the mouse. You are not using LDD now)

Hope this help you

Sergio