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Hi folks,
as you might know LDraw's history:
http://www.ldraw.org/Article11.html
hasn't been updated for a long time. With permission from BrickJournal publisher
Joe Meno I'm 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. I browsed the various newsgroups compiling a chart
of the highlights, but the list is far from being complete. Feel free to add the
missing pieces. I'm gonna put it into a fine reading once the highlights are
complete.
2005
*Trying to contact CA Authors at end of the year down to 22
*James Jessiman Memorial Award to Michael Lachmann
*Start thinking about the internationalisation of part library
*Willy Tschager ran the LDraw booth at LEGOWorld
*William Howard releases a client-side browser for the LDraw Parts Tracker
*Change to existing policy regarding the subfiling of dithered colors
*Txt2dat released
*LDraw Design Pad v1.5.7 Released
*MPDCenter 1.0.14 released
*Txt2dat released
*Lpub 2.4 released
*Bricksmith 1.0 the first LDraw editor for Mac
*MLCad 3.2 released
*Version 513 of Anton Raves library released
2006
*Authors start rewriting non-CA-parts
*Willy Tschager appointed as second webmaster
*Tim Gould appointed as third webmaster
*Ross Crawford appointed as PT admin
*LDView is the first prog downloading automatically unofficial parts from the PT
*SteerCo publishes policy for authors who aim to fix other peoples parts
*LSC Final Draft ratification passes
*LSC election moved to November
*Approved Version 1.0 of the Back Face Culling (BFC) specification.
*Adopted the "de-facto" BFC extension as the official draft specification.
*Approved new parts header format of the "~Moved to" files to support the
Contributor Agreement.
*Approved a format of the !LDRAW_ORG meta-statement suitable for the LDraw Parts
Tracker.
*Approved a new LDraw file header to support the Contributor Agreement.
*LDraw.org MOTM/SOTM Relaunch
*First year without any part updates
*James Jessiman Memorial Award to Orion Pobursky
*LeoCad 0.75 released
*LDView 3.1 released
*L3pAdd-on 1.4.1 released
*LDraw Script Compiler 0.61 released
V*ersion 527 of Anton Raves library released
2007
*Official launch of the LDraw POTM - Part Of The Month contest
*RACHAL - the Raytracing Challenge launched
*Approved version 1.0 of the LDraw File Format specification
*Approved proposal to allow zero or more qualifiers in the !LDRAW_ORG
meta-command
*Rejected proposal to allow one optional qualifier in the !LDRAW_ORG
meta-command
*Approved Version 1.4 of the Category and Keyword specification.
*Voted down a proposal to make "Unofficial" directory an official location for
unofficial
*Added description of using " (needs work)" in the part title to allow for parts
to be certified with known problems.
*Second year without any part updates
*Added the accountability of "Key Positions" to the Bylaws
*The Lego Universe team has started to share information regarding the brick
shapes
*Rediscovered James Jessimans original website
*Commemoration of the 10th anniversary of James Jessiman's passing
*Introducing LD4DStudio - New animation software
*Introducing LIC – LEGO Instructions Creator
*SR 3D Builder released
*Lsculpt released
*IseCalc 1.0 released
*Coverer 1.0 released
*Linetrim 1.0 released
*LDView 3.2 released
*LDraw Wiki launched
*Txt2dat 0.2.1 released
*Bricksmith 1.6 released
*LDMerge 1.0 released
*Bitsticker released
*PreL3P 1.0 released
*Version 530 of Anton Raves library released
*DATHeader released
Thx, w.
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| Here are the LDView highlights for that time period (two of which are already on your list). It's up to you what level of detail to take from them: 2005-12-13: LDView 3.0 released with whole new rendering engine that is generally faster than LDView (...) (17 years ago, 28-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| (...) The LSC summary page that the above entries were taken from is in reverse chronological order. You'll want to put them back in chronological order to avoid confusion. Same thing for the 2007 LSC activity. --Travis (17 years ago, 28-Feb-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| (...) [...] Willy, Good summary of the past couple years. Two things I'd love to see are: 1) A side-by-side timeline of development and milestones for various LDraw tools. Somewhat like a Gantt chart. 2) A feature matrix of the various tools and the (...) (17 years ago, 9-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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