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richard marchetti <blueofnoon@aol.com> wrote in message
news:G2Lnx3.ApE@lugnet.com...
> Fantastic! A truly beautiful computer rendering! I give this one very • high
> marks. Really, it's quite astonishing.
THANKS!
> If I had a few more (like a lot more) black 2x2 round bricks I just might • be
> able to build this thing in black and red.
>
> -- Richard
I probably have enough of the white upper arches, and I could use my yellow
hex Aquazone arches for the round pieces, and I have plenty of red inverse
arches (from Knight Lord's Castle). So... I could build a patch-work
version!! Actually - I can't imagine how to build the roof. In theory, you
could build the roof in black (not dark gray), but you would have to buy
tons of sets!
This is one case where the CAD method really shines. It's possible to build
versions of this in the real world, but it would be almost impossible to get
sufficient quantities of parts of matching color!
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In lugnet.build, Brad Hamilton writes:
> This is one case where the CAD method really shines. It's possible to build
> versions of this in the real world, but it would be almost impossible to get
> sufficient quantities of parts of matching color!
Every AFOL's biggest complaint, right?
-- Richard
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Unfortunately, I hit another problem with the CAD approach - Machine Power!
I can only build something about 3 stories and my machine starts to chug.
In the real world, I have enough LEGO to build much larger (just not large
quantities of certain pieces)!
I have a PII 450MHZ and it starts getting really slow. With this model,
after I make a change, it takes about 1/4 to 1/2 of a second to update. The
new MLCAD version appears to do partial updates in some cases, so this
helps.
richard marchetti <blueofnoon@aol.com> wrote in message
news:G2Lt0F.1Gr@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.build, Brad Hamilton writes:
> > This is one case where the CAD method really shines. It's possible to • build
> > versions of this in the real world, but it would be almost impossible to • get
> > sufficient quantities of parts of matching color!
>
> Every AFOL's biggest complaint, right?
>
> -- Richard
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Brad Hamilton wrote:
> I probably have enough of the white upper arches, and I could use my yellow
> hex Aquazone arches for the round pieces, and I have plenty of red inverse
> arches (from Knight Lord's Castle). So... I could build a patch-work
> version!! Actually - I can't imagine how to build the roof. In theory, you
> could build the roof in black (not dark gray), but you would have to buy
> tons of sets!
I like how that roof looks. When I first saw the 2x4x2 3 lobed top piece
which goes with the 2x3 rounded pieces, I immediately thought about a
roof treatment. Used as the edge of a roof, it is very remeniscent of
European roof lines.
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Frank Filz
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Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
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Thanks for the compliments.
Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:39EF4000.2C67@mindspring.com...
> Brad Hamilton wrote:
> > I probably have enough of the white upper arches, and I could use my • yellow
> > hex Aquazone arches for the round pieces, and I have plenty of red • inverse
> > arches (from Knight Lord's Castle). So... I could build a patch-work
> > version!! Actually - I can't imagine how to build the roof. In theory, • you
> > could build the roof in black (not dark gray), but you would have to buy
> > tons of sets!
>
> I like how that roof looks. When I first saw the 2x4x2 3 lobed top piece
> which goes with the 2x3 rounded pieces, I immediately thought about a
> roof treatment. Used as the edge of a roof, it is very remeniscent of
> European roof lines.
>
> --
> Frank Filz
>
> -----------------------------
> Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
> Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
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