- Make sure that you have installed the latest official AND unofficial LDraw parts.
- Download the templates here.
- Open the archive, and place the files in LDCad templates folder. This one is usually located here on your hard disk (Windows): %appdata%\LDCad\templates\path
- Launch LDCad. Motors and sensors will be available in Templates / Misc Power Functions 2 templates / LQ LDCad parts bin. The flexibles hoses are unsorted, in Templates / all flexible parts LDCad parts bin.
- Roland Melkert's LDCad pneumatic hose tutorial
- My own Creation of cables with LDCad for Spike Prime models
- Playwell Brick's Studio Tutorials - Using LDCAD Parts including
Flexible LEGO parts!
Templates pack for LDCad flexible parts.
The files provided here are unofficial templates for LDCad flexible parts. Currently this pack allows creation of cables for Spike Prime and Spike Essential electronics parts, as well as the flexible hoses included in these sets.
December 2021 update: Now includes templates for Technic motors (Control+)
Usage:
As you can see on the image above, the generated flexible parts are "reasonably" compatible with Studio 2.0. Of course you'll need my Spike packs, available here.
Using LDCad for flexible part creation: this is NOT intended to be a tutorial for LDCad, here are nonetheless some YouTube videos that could help: