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Re: The future of LDraw?
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Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:38:48 GMT
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LDraw/LCad etc. are not nearly as dead as you think they are! The pioneering days are long gone, and the package of tools has entered the world of “mainstream software”. People simply trust everything to work, and will only make themselves known when something doesn’t, which is very rare.

I know of at least 100 new users of the tools who, in the last 2 years, have found their way to the LDraw site to download software and documentation, and new users continue to arrive at around 2 a week. These are users who have taken up my “Virtual Minibrix” package, which is built on LDraw. I’m sure if there are this many users arriving through a “minority interest”, there must also be plenty more arriving through an interest in Lego itself -- just silently.

Martin James



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