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(...) Dave and Alan et al, I know, I know, I already told you I would be "playing",... but could you please also reserve some room for my bud Tilt, who will be bringing some sort of ride (shocking eh?), maybe the return of Bob, or maybe a new one (...) (21 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.loc.ca.on)
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| | Re: LEGO Dreams
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(...) I have a dream one day of opening a Lego Catalog and going to the "Adult" section, where I can buy 1,500 - 3,000 pc town models made of non-juniorized bricks. Banks, Gas Stations, Apartment Buildings, Skyscrapers, Firestations-- sort of the (...) (21 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | NWBrickCon™ 2005 Castle
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(URL) NWBrickCon> is coming up fast, and the Castle layout will be great this year. If you’re planning on attending please e-mail me. Let me know what you’re planning on bringing so we can get a general idea of how much area we’re going to need. If (...) (21 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.castle, lugnet.events, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | Surface-only convertion to POV-Ray
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What tool would convert just the surface information from ldr to pov or lws? Would 3DWin do it? (21 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Idea for better LEGO Factory building
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(...) Ah, no, I'm sorry — I didn't test that part. I tested that you can load such a custom .tix file into LDD, add it to your active list just like one of the built-in part sets, and make use of it to build a model. I didn't test that LF will (...) (21 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Am I the only person who finds Lego CAD systems infuriating?
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(...) snip (...) I would never disagree with my esteemed rtl associate, but if I can do it, anyone can do it-- (URL) This was a simple one. My truck, as seen on this page (if you scroll down just a tad) was way more involved, yet still quite easy to (...) (21 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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| | Re: Am I the only person who finds Lego CAD systems infuriating?
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(...) I think that by usability you actually mean learnability which is somewhat different. I agree that most of the Ldraw CAD tools are not that easy to learn. They do not have dedicated teams to make them so. I think that, at heart, CAD is a (...) (21 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Reduced versions of BBB wheels
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(...) Thanks Tim, yes I believe the originals are from a modelling tool. And I'll be first to admit, mine are not as accurate as the originals, I sacrificed accuracy for size. But they use a lot of primitives, which most LDraw renderers are able to (...) (21 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Idea for better LEGO Factory building
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(...) Joe, what did you test? Did you use this small file to try to upload a design to the gallery for others to buy? My concern is that might not work, I couldn't tell what you meant, but if you tested it, coolness! (21 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: GUPPIE
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(...) I love the little craft- that's a beautiful use of that nasty part! In fact, it's used better here than for its original purpose. (2 URLs) Tony Hafner (URL) www.hafhead.com> (21 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Am I the only person who finds Lego CAD systems infuriating?
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(...) I can't honestly say they're THAT much better. I've had equal frustration with both the LDraw editors AND LDD. They're broken in different ways. There's been a lot of effort made to repackage the LDraw tools to make them easier to install, to (...) (21 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: NWBrickCon™ 2005 Technic
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(...) Hi Bob, Glen Bell here with SALUG. Will be sending you a email via the main NWBC address above with a bunch of questions so heads up, look for it!Thanks for the posting.Glen Bell (21 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon)
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(...) Comments inline... (...) I would term it more of a play room, but that's me :-) (...) This is an idea that I had considered for a college curriculum - I graduated from a design school, and using LEGO elements as a 3-D prototyping medium is (...) (21 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Reduced versions of BBB wheels
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(...) So thats what you and Tim were talkin about yesterday, I was most confused. Your new versions look as good as the originals, so the reduced file size was deinatly worth doing. The originals were huge (some sort of conversion from the CAD (...) (21 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) (URL) BrickWiki> now has a page on (URL) Custom LDD Part Sets>. This has been tested and, apart from the custom icon, seems to work just fine. So now it would be even easier for someone to create part sets that correspond to the (URL) Factory (...) (21 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | NWBrickCon™ 2005 Technic
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NWBrickcon is quickly approaching, October 7th - 9th will be here sooner then you think. It's time to order those last few parts you need to finish that killer Technic MOC or start working on that new project you've had trapped in your head for a (...) (21 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.events, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Re: Castle Under Siege (Formaly Known As The Royal Knight's Castle)
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(...) Thank you very much for your comments, I really appreciate that. I think it still has some good play value, but the look is more important to me. (Like mine has a back wall, cough cough) I like the drawbridge as well; I need to make it a (...) (21 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Am I the only person who finds Lego CAD systems infuriating?
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(...) (snip laudatory comments) (...) Let's try quoting the whole thing that I said, shall we, instead of quoting out of context? (...) I stand by what I say, LDD is in my view harder to use, by far, than any of the LDraw editors, at least for (...) (21 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: LRW ett måste!!!
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LRW låter kul. Det är inget för mig iaf då jag håller på och forskar kring GMC - alltså great marble contraption. Har inga fotbollar så jag köpte en radda glaskulor och satt igång. Har haft en hel del problem men det skriver jag om i en separat tråd (...) (21 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Re: Lego Parts You Hate....
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Hmm... To redeem some of the parts that have been mentioned before: 1x2x2: this was originally introduced for various printed bricks (including with a train window print on a clear one - now that's a nice window). Now the current use in plain solid (...) (21 years ago, 31-Aug-05, to lugnet.general)
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