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All right, the new LDD and LEGO Factory have inspired this idea, which is a dumb one but I have to get it off my chest anyway: Somebody with reasonable technical skills and a decent amount of time on their hands could set up a service similar to (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Beautiful idea! If I may add a slight suggestion... How about just writing some code for bricklink and selling it to them which takes an mlcad model and scans Bricklink for the best deal for those pieces or all pieces from one vendor etc. Kind (...) (19 years ago, 27-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Crazy sounding ideas always turn out to be the best ones. The bricklink thing could also link with the peeron parts list, so you already have a good idea of which bricks you already have. However - those may be tied up in other models. I (...) (19 years ago, 28-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Larry- I've always wondered why BrickLink was not set up to provide a user with the cheapest solution to a specific want list. One could argue that it's counter productive for sellers wanting to get the most for their wares, but BL is aleady (...) (19 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) From a technical standpoint, I think this wouldn't be too hard to do. You'd query each vendor with the list of parts, and taking into account the vendor's minimum lot size for each part, get back a mock order that covers as much of that parts (...) (19 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.market.brickshops, FTX)
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(...) Although not addressing the "cheapest parts list" desire, the Building Instructions Portal ((URL)) has something similar. Users who add a link to their Building Instruction can also upload the LDraw file and, thanks to BrikTrak and Richard (...) (19 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) The problem exists that Bricklink doesn't use the same numbering system that Peeron does for parts where the number is unknown. Bricklink and Peeron also differ, in some cases, on part naming. This leads to the neccesity of constructing a huge (...) (19 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I just tried this, but with mixed success. For example, I tried to buy parts for your Intermodal Spine Car. This produces "Oops! There was a problem processing your request: 1. Item #21: Item Not Found in Catalog." (You'd think it would then (...) (19 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Heh...yeah, clearly it needs some updating. Honestly, I sorta lost interest when I couldn't get any feedback or help from Bricklink - that was the lynchpin in the system and without it, it was tough to make much more happen. Of course, that (...) (19 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, FTX)
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