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Hello beloved EB community, I would like to start this thread to have a distinct place where people can discuss metal parts from different manufacturers and speak about your experiences with those parts. List of current vendors which offer metal parts: Metal Technic Parts / MTP (formerly known from the companys main brandname "DarkIceDesigns") Brick Machine Shop (California, USA - discontinued) ZENE Bricks Brand Metal Technic Parts (MTP) General information "Metal Technic Parts" is a rebranding of the company DarkIceDesigns' products. They started with liftarms/beams and axles and have expanded their products by gears and other useful parts. Statement for the exact type of aluminium and how they are machined from the vendor: The company resides in the UK and offers an online-shop where users can order their products. Details of their products are shown in the spoiler: Update 09.08.2022: Added pictures & videos in Spoilers Update 11.10.2022: Removed discontinued currently not available threaded M5 Axle & added 5.5L Axle with stop Update 15.03.2023: Added more prototype gears and other new parts Update 11.05.2023: Added Metal Differential, ammended new 8T picture, added info about sold out prototype products Update 19.10.2024: Exchanged images for v2 series for some gears & updated their availability status; Added 56t turntable Update 31.10.2024: Added Metal Wheelhubs Brand Zene Bricks Homepage: https://www.zenebricks.com/ General information "ZENE Bricks" is brand started by user @ZENE (please give me some more information for where you are located and what you like to share to us!). ZENE is offering parts with the focus of closing gaps to use high performance & RC equipment together with LEGO bricks, so the offer differentials made out of metal parts with custom closed housings. Also they have ballbeared wheelhubs in their inventory. Besides metal parts they also create Lightkits to known sets (the lightkits are out of scope for this thread obviously 🙄). From Zene: Details of their products are shown in the spoiler: If you know any company which shall be listed in this main post, hit me up with a message, so I can add the vendor to the list (please check before mentioning them if their products don't infringe any copyrights!). FYI, got permission from @Jim to create this topic in this category, thanks again for helping out!

@gyenesvi Thanks for the update and the details. If it is outsourced, they should have some money planned to a certain amount of time for the ext. company. Maybe just asking kindly to deliver the features which were (maybe) promised to Buwizz in a certain amount of time/cost. Its easy to point towards the external company, but I think as being the client to the ext. company you can expect them to deliver - otherwise they will laugh about you burning money into them. I had two ideas since I posted my kind-of "ranting" post: Doing a Google Forms Poll for users from this thread to just set one single question like "I would like to have more frequent updates about upcoming app & firmware development" with a yes/no option to strengthen up our voice as a community of their customers. (I don't know if it is possible to do polls here in EB directly or if it is generally wanted if for e.g. me setting a Google Forms Poll for this) Writing an mail to Buwizz to ask if they need support in communication with the external company, because I am an senior system-engineer in a development-team, because I think the Buwizz-team may not be developers for themselves and maybe fooled by the external company telling bs-reasons to just earn money by doing nothing Edit: Created a poll, just a preview of how it could look: One thing there: Without asking for an email address this poll could easily be manipulated in one or the other way - on the other hand I am an IT guy and I really don't want to gather email-addresses (which I wouldn't make use of anyways, but people have to trust me on this, or others may not participate..) Any opinions welcome.

Thanks Zero for that comment. I will try it out with another mail to the official support mail. Thanks for all your efforts and hope you had a nice camp experience! Regards

Instead of Buwizz doing weekly YT videos, I would really like to see Buwizz doing some (regular) updates on the 2022/Q1 app milestones which were introduces back then. The longer this lags behind with any updates (we are in Q3 already) for me it gives the bad taste of having poor support from the vendor. I know that app development may be difficult - nevertheless giving honest PR to the customers is on another page and I would really appreciate some updates there. Don't get me wrong, I don't expect all introduced features to be delivered in notime, but at least I would appreciate some regular updates to see for myself if Buwizz is / will be the right product for me personally. This better PR I am speaking of could also be utilized to bind users more to the product/vendor's site by giving the users a functionality for registered Buwizz units to be able to vote for a certain (preselected by Buwizz) features which should go into development next. For example I am desperately waiting for a failsafe feature which I see as absolutely mandatory for faster models in conjuntion with the limited BT range of the system (even as a total optional thing to be enabled on purpose to not interfere with regular users who don't need). Also an two-button-Input like a paddle shifter would be really neat for utilizing regular servos to shift gearboxes. E.g. push "+" / "-" buttons of that input control would do a 90° turn and stay in that state. Sorry for giving this kind of negative post, but for a ~200 € product I am expecting way more from the vendor. I would really like to get a 3rd and maybe 4th Buwizz 3 - but as long as there comes no single update I am not considering to burn more money into this seemingly "already to be considered discontinued?!" product - which I find very sad. Buwizz camp is currently happening and I generally am aware of ZeroBricks to be considered as a private EB user here (on purpose no mention to his account) and here it's not the official support of the vendor, also that he may not be allowed to give any detailed reply here even if he would like to. But maybe this honest opinion may be recognized somehow. Looking forward to see more technical updates from the Buwizz Dev team - even if the estimates for the Q1 feature list will be postponed further to the future because of implementation issues.

@SNIPE Not really gitting it, your topic is for imports from Studio to LDCad - my thread is about importing parts from LDraw into Studio... All good if you think it fits best here, but maybe I didn't got your point correctly.. :D

Hey, you need to go to the instruction mode Just get over the "Step editor" and directly move to the Page Designer. Create a new empty page Hit the "+ Insert" button and select "bill of materials" On the right pane you can change the options for sorting the parts etc..

@freakwave This feature may be provided by ldraw homepage in the near future - so I think I would stop my efforts, if its getting obsolete in the future anyways.. reference: https://forums.ldraw.org/thread-26497-post-47070.html#pid47070

If you just need those to import them directly to your custom parts folder, here you go: Baseplate, Raised 32 x 32 Crater Plate without Crater Studs - https://www.reum.it/ldraw-to-studio-exporter/index.php?part=3947 Baseplate, Raised 32 x 32 with Ramp and Pit, Crater Pattern - https://www.reum.it/ldraw-to-studio-exporter/index.php?part=2552p02 The zips include all sub assemblies to be imported into Studio (without connectivity).

Update: Added some recent nightshots with lighting completely installed for all bikes

Hey @freakwave, first of all, sorry for one week without an update! Finally had some minutes to take a initial look :D Legal reasons shouldn't be any concern for the unofficial parts, as far as I get it. Only problem I see is, the unofficial lib is updated very frequent and it would need some scheduled job for my script / server to have the library files refreshed with a more recent version - technically its no huge thing, just needs some brainjuice (I would also use this to automatically update the official one, because it was just placed manually there for the first approach).. Open Questions: Would a checkbox for "include LDraw unofficial" for the search be enough for your needs? Do you know if the unofficial contains parts which are already in the official? If so, this could create multiple result. Could be solved by also prefixing the source [official|unofficial] at the search-results links I hope I can give some feedback on this sunday already, regards. Edit: updated official parts with the latest files (2022-03, released on 2022-05-07) Edit 2: The unofficial LDraw Lib contains also other parts (textures etc) -> need to extend my script to be able to include them too.

@freakwave Its just ~150 lins of dirty php code. Its more or less just 1 recursive function, walking down the references to subparts of the main part and adding them into a zip-stream, which is send to the browser. I will have to check if there are any legal reasons denying that - I will check out if I can add the unofficial parts on the weekend.

Onboard footage of @amorti's Café Racer: The wobble of the front fork is a consequence of having the Insta360 Go2 camera in the back of the back, resulting in the cog also being moved + having less weight at the front fork (specially in acceleration situations). Without the camera-equipment mounted, it rarely wobbles. Top speed meassured with SkyRC GPS probe is 28 kph / 17.4 mph

Honda CBR1000RR FireBlade body added

Just found the mentioned general RC Bike topic and posted the planned speed-comparison with pictures there..

Also interested if there will be a planned feature for this in the future. I would also send some MouldKing 4.0 Tx/Rx as hardware samples for testing / rev engineering. :D

This was before you did know me crazy dude lol.... Just found this thread and wanted to give it a little push, because we all know 2022 is the year of brickbuilt bikes... Some pictures of the wider variety of RC Motorcycles which are (partially) available on Rebrickable: - GreenGeckos Fast RC Motorcycle - @amorti's Café-Racer - @piterx's Baja Bike, Fast Street Bike & Superbike - My unfinished Chopper-Design My RC Superbike series: Left to right: Honda CBR1000RR FireBlade (CaDA motors) Ducati Panigale V4R (MK motors) Kawasaki H2R white/green (Buwizz tuned Edition) Kawasaki H2R black/chrome (MK motors)

Fastest Street Bike & Green Gecko's Fast RC Motorcycle Still in the planning for this summer... Other participants: @amorti's Café-Racer (Active Steering) GreenGecko's Fast RC Motorcycle @piterx's Fast Street Bike & RC Superbike My Chopper Design (WIP, not 100% functional yet) @piterx's Baja Bike My RC Superbike series with different Bodies... (FireBlade, Panigale, H2R Buwizz-tuned, H2R black/chrome). Meassurements will be done with SkyRC's GPS probe "GSM020". Hope to have this ready by Q3/22

Mind about putting it into a distinct thread? I am no mod or any but I would like to keep to primary Buwizz-related topics in this thread.

Thanks mate! Hope it helps somehow ♥

Update July 2024: My described tool here is considered DEPRECATED as the ldraw site has implemented a functionality to download complete .zip files with all needed subparts / assemblies. Scenario: You are in the situation in which you miss some LEGO parts in Studio but have seen them in LDRAW (unofficial) library. Maybe you tried to resolve all the references to all sub-assembly-files once by hand or had a look at the dependencies with some other tools - as I am working in IT and love to automate things and thought "I can't be bothered with doing this manually". And as I want to contribute something back to the lovely community of people I put it online in May 2022 and gave it some little updates inbetween: The LDraw to Studio Exporter (https://www.reum.it/ldraw-to-studio-exporter/) Description This tool is designed to import parts which are available in LDraw, but not in Studio. From the LDraw part number, it zips all relevant sub elements (there can be many!) into a part pack. Howto Visit the LDraw Parts Lookup Search for your part of choice & copy the number Enter this number into the below searchfield A list of all fitting parts from the catalogue will show up - clicking the entries will create a zip package with just the needed parts To use the packs, unzip them and place their contents in your "C:\Users\{your username}\AppData\Local\Stud.io\CustomParts" (Windows) The parts will then be available in Custom Parts palette of Studio Screenshots Entry-Page Example result for query "47373" Details of the zipfile structure of an example part Here is an example of the structure and the needed subparts for one Shock Absorber ("47373-f1"): Some example results as direct links of parts missing in Studio: 65151-f1.zip - Technic Shock Absorber 11L Soft (Extended) 65151-f2.zip - Technic Shock Absorber 11L Soft (Compressed) 47373-f1.zip - Technic Shock Absorber 11L/9L (in Extended Position, not Pre-Tensioned) 47373-f2.zip - Technic Shock Absorber 11L/9L (in Extended Position, Pre-Tensioned) 47373-f3.zip - Technic Shock Absorber 11L/9L (in Compressed Position, not Pre-Tensioned) 47373-f4.zip - Technic Shock Absorber 11L/9L (in Compressed Position, Pre-Tensioned) Updates January 2023: Fix: Nightly refresh of LDraw unofficial files working now, it was buggy before and stuck on the releases from ~August 2022 version Feature: Unofficial files may be downloaded via a new checkbox. Searches are exclusive here, so having the checkbox set means it only goes through the unofficial list (but may grab sub assemblies from the official, where needed) UI: Added Dark Mode awareness UI: Added Font-Awesome Icons for downloads UI: Some tweaks (all professional webdesigners: hush hush, nothing to see here... don't look at my nasty css quirks :P) May 2023: Fix: Textures are now included (they werent before..)

As @amorti already pointed out, its the shocks... unfortunatly those arent stiff enough.

Thanks for this lovely Motorcycle & the possibility to have the it built for testing and creating some video footage of it to share @piterx! ❤ Review: This lil' beast is blasting over the floor with astonishing 22kph / 13.67 mph (meassured with the SkyRC GPS probe) Videos Shorts (out of the above video, but in 9:16 perspective) Short #1 Short #2 Short #3

I have done that... one just needs to file ~1mm away. But I did it only once for testing 🙊🙈

@dickylaban EB gives a nice experience to all people with its forums - which you are currently destroying with your nonsense here (and also on your fb page with your vendetta vs me since yesterday when I gave you my wish to not expose my real name any further.). Instead of respecting my privacy you are even posting more stuff afterwards in which you are acusing me of being to poor to buy your instructions ("he can not afford it"). You are totally wrong on this, The thing is: From my experience with RC Bikes built out of LEGO I already know that your Hubless-Bike won't do a turn without falling over - in consequence I don't need to buy your instructions to proof my opinion. Here in the forum I asked about video footage to proof me wrong, because MAYBE your Bike has some cool technical solution which made it possible - You never delivered any and just pointed towards your manual which I shall buy to find out. I still don't know what is triggering you that much to go on your emberrasing-vendetta instead of just proving me wrong... Is it because I brought the price you told me in here? If so, I wasn't aware and also you didn't say anything about I shall not disclose this information to the public. Sidenote 1: I havent released any instruction for one of my RC Motorcycles yet, so your are repeatingly confusing me with (proberly) @amorti.. Seems like the best solution... I think we don't get into an technical discussion here again... *sadface

Dude - you are emberassing yourself to the public - don't you get it? 🤦‍♂️ I just wanted you to not take my real name and now you are doing it on purpose and even on your FB Page? What does this tell about your character? Calm down again and let's talk about technical solutions...