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Re: Looking for dimensions of LEGO bricks.
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lugnet.cad
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Mon, 25 May 2009 05:28:15 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Timothy Gould wrote:
> Although it does so happen that 8mm is quite close to 5/16inch.
Huh. I was about to point out that a 48x48 baseplate is 15" per side, but it
turns out it's actually just shy of 15-1/8". Conversion gets you 381mm based on
a 15" baseplate, and 384mm based on an 8mm 1x brick, and that 3mm difference is
just under 1/8".
But yeah, conventional dimensions in the US are that a 2x4 brick is 1-1/4" long,
a stud is 3/16" wide and tiles are 1/8" tall, with 32x and 48x baseplates coming
out at 10" and 15".
There's a lot of really crazy geometric tricks, intentional or not, involved in
LEGO parts (like being able to pinch a plate or tile between two adjacent rows
of studs, or the fact that five plates thickness is exactly equivalent to the
width of a 2x brick), and I have to wonder if it'd be possible to redesign the
LEGO brick in terms of fractional Imperial Standard and still make all of those
tricks work the same way.
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| (...) Given that Denmark went fully metric in 1912 and that a 1x1 brick is 8mm x 8mm x 9.6mm (stud exclusive) it seems unlikely that imperial will work out better for you. Although it does so happen that 8mm is quite close to 5/16inch. Tim (15 years ago, 25-May-09, to lugnet.cad)
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