Hi - I'm new here, just stumbled across MECABRICKS whilst on holiday and with only access to my iPad. I just tried starting it up even though every message I'd read said that iPads wouldn't work because they didn't have the right GL thing in the browser. Well since iOS 8 they do, and it works just fine.

I presume that others aren't using iPads because of the lack of discussion here or on eurobricks, but I thought a discussion on what's possible or not might be useful.

I have been able to create new models, saving and opening them with no problems. The rotation works fine with a finger drag and resizing with a double finger drag as you'd expect them to on a tablet. Sometimes I have to touch an element 2 or 3 times to get it to add to the model, and it can be pretty fiddly to choose the face to add new elements to, but it does work.

What I haven't been able to find a way to do is multiple selections, this means that building is slow, and grouping isn't possible.

Even without that functionality, this is going to prove very useful for me: doing full designing on my PC, and then bringing my iPad to my building area.

I have to say though that this blows away what is on the Apple Store for Lego designing. I'd suggest that a simple wrapper into the web interface, with the right keywords would produce an app that could be sold!

A couple of minor other points: it complains that it's not allowed to go full screen in this browser, but there are plenty of other web apps that do that (I use the ft, but there are others). I would think it would be possible to do what the ft does and have MECABRICKS appear as if it's an app.

The biggest challenge that I have is a set of models already done in LDD or LDRAW and no way to convert them across.

Regards

Lee