As announced in this article [3] members of the Steering Committee (SteerCo) have been in contact with LEGO to look at ways of working together to ease the conversion between the LEGO Digital Designer [4] and the LDraw System Of Tools. This relationship has led the LDraw Steering Committee to the Lego Universe project in regards to it's building tools and such. So to help the process along, The Lego Universe team has started to share information regarding the brick shapes to further the relationship.

As a first bunch we've got data of the following 80 parts:

and got permission to share them with the community, with the purpose to make them fit for the LDraw Parts Tracker. We are therefore looking for parts authors who are willing to clean up the rough data, do additional primitive substitution, care for the new header specs, stud orientation, BFC ...

To avoid overlap we will handle this as we do with the NonCA parts re-write [5] (please note that we still need some of them re-written, though there is a good chance that we get our hands on 30091.dat - Minifig Scuba Tank and 30248.dat - Landing Skids). We set up a chart [6] listing the parts and who is working on them. Furthermore there are guidelines for the copyright and ownership. All you'll have to do is pick a part and email the LDraw Administration Team telling the part number your working on - your name will be associated with the part in order to avoid overlap.

The LDraw Steering Committee