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Re: Looking for dimensions of LEGO bricks.
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Wed, 27 May 2009 09:06:44 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Anders Isaksson wrote:
I'm not at liberty to say too much, but I have actually looked at three real
drawings of LEGO parts, and not even TLC seems to be sure what the
dimensions should be - I've seen the distance between two studs dimensioned
as 8 mm on one part and as 8.018 mm on another!

That much?  Wow.  I figured the distance between two studs should be closer to
3mm, since a LEGO tile is (in theory) 3.2mm thick, and it will sorta fit between
two studs.  Or were you refering to the center-to-center distance?

Anyways, one thing you have to remember is that the dimensions on a LEGO brick
will be noticably different from the dimensions on a LEGO brick mold.  Depending
on the specific shrinkage rate of LEGO-spec ABS, an 8.018 mold dimension could
result in a post-form LEGO brick with an ~8mm dimension.  It's been a few years
since I actually had to know the shrink rate of ABS, but one of the sites I
pulled up on a quick search said it ranges from 0.0024in/in to 0.0165in/in.
Going with the former, an 8.018mm mold will produce a 7.9988mm part.  The latter
would result in a 7.8879mm part.


Subject: 
Re: Looking for dimensions of LEGO bricks.
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Wed, 27 May 2009 20:18:41 GMT
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Purple Dave wrote:

That much?  Wow.  I figured the distance between two studs should be
closer to 3mm, since a LEGO tile is (in theory) 3.2mm thick, and it
will sorta fit between two studs.  Or were you refering to the
center-to-center distance?

Center-to-center, of course. The stud diameters differ by 0.028 between the
drawings too, creating a diff of the gaps of 0.046 (but the length of the
parts are exactly the same).

Anyways, one thing you have to remember is that the dimensions on a
LEGO brick will be noticably different from the dimensions on a LEGO
brick mold.  Depending on the specific shrinkage rate of LEGO-spec
ABS, an 8.018 mold dimension could result in a post-form LEGO brick
with an ~8mm dimension.

Well, the drawings are of parts, not molds (and the parts are attached).

--
Anders Isaksson, Sweden
BlockCAD:  http://web.telia.com/~u16122508/proglego.htm
Gallery:   http://web.telia.com/~u16122508/gallery/index.htm


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