 | | LEGO® Expects 50% Profit Growth in 2009: CEO
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LEGO Expects 50% Profit Growth in 2009: LEGO CEO Published: Thursday, 29 Oct 2009 By: Reuters Danish toy company LEGO expects to post a 50% profit growth in 2009, CEO Jorgen Vig Knudstorp told CNBC, and he expects the growth momentum to continue in (...) (15 years ago, 29-Oct-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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| | Re: A 'possible' LEGOLAND Park in Illinois
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(...) See, and the ironic thing is that the California LEGOLAND park is about the most poorly located major LEGOLAND park in the world. ABS doesn't like sunlight. It's not going to break down in a matter of days, but unless it's black, it'll fade (...) (15 years ago, 29-Oct-09, to lugnet.legoland, FTX)
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| | Re: DATHeader Update (The Reviewer Tool) Version 2.0.10
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(...) Ah - that was the problem... Though decimal separator in France is normally a comma, there are so many programs that work badly or not at all with that (including the dot on numeric keypad!!!) that I switched my system to dot separator! Philo (15 years ago, 29-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2009-02 Parts Update Now Available
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(...) The Windows installer executables are not cumulative - they are the complete library - hence "Use this link to download the Windows installer for the complete library". The zip archives are just the changes (new files and updates) - hence "Use (...) (15 years ago, 29-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Bricksmith 2.3
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(2 URLs) Bricksmith 2.3> adds the following features: Configurable viewport arrangements Zoom to Fit Views stay scrolled to center as they change size Colors are more vivid It also fixes the following bugs: Reordering or copying steps no longer (...) (15 years ago, 29-Oct-09, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: A 'possible' LEGOLAND Park in Illinois
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(...) Well, not really. I suspect he was pointing out that you seemed to be completely writing off developing a major attraction anyplace cold in the winter, where closures would be necessary. I've been to amusement parks in Cleveland & Cincinnati, (...) (15 years ago, 29-Oct-09, to lugnet.legoland)
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| | Re: DATHeader Update (The Reviewer Tool) Version 2.0.10
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(...) I just noticed that DATHeader had a serious problem since the first release. If your system has the comma as decimal separator you got wrong results. Alex Taylor just gave DATHeader a second try and we could track down the problems he has to (...) (15 years ago, 28-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: A 'possible' LEGOLAND Park in Illinois
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(...) I live in Canada so your assumptions and comments are off the mark. We don't even get LEGO Brand stores in Canada and we pay a 25-30% premium on LEGO products (BEFORE taxes) just for the privilege of living north of the border. I understand (...) (15 years ago, 28-Oct-09, to lugnet.legoland, FTX)
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| | Re: A 'possible' LEGOLAND Park in Illinois
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(...) You're right. It's completely ridiculous. Why would any one want to build any thing in a location that isn't sunny and 75 degrees for 360 days out of the year. The Northern US is a frozen waste land for half the year. We northerners should (...) (15 years ago, 28-Oct-09, to lugnet.legoland, FTX)
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| | Re: A 'possible' LEGOLAND Park in Illinois
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(...) But that would be ridiculous. Who would build an amusement park in a location that can only be open for 6 month of the year? Florida, maybe Texas but Illinois?!?! (15 years ago, 28-Oct-09, to lugnet.legoland, FTX)
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| | Re: RCX not listening to IR remote
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(...) Oops, my bad. Jetro (15 years ago, 28-Oct-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: A 'possible' LEGOLAND Park in Illinois
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(...) Nope. They are talking about a full-blown "park". People both from Merlin Entertainment and LEGO have been looking for a new LEGOLAND park in the United States. Two separate projects and cost. LEGOLAND park $200 million and LEGOLAND Discovery (...) (15 years ago, 28-Oct-09, to lugnet.legoland, FTX)
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| | Shop @ Home Phone Specials for Wednesday, October 28, 2009, to Tuesday, November 3, 2009
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Item #10287 Mindstorm Intelligent NXT Brick (Black) Limited edition Retail Price: $169.99 Sale Price: $122.98 Item #7996 City Trail Rail Crossing R/C Retail Price: $24.99 Sale Price: $9.98 Item #852331 Vintage Minifigure Collection Volume 1 Retail (...) (15 years ago, 28-Oct-09, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: A 'possible' LEGOLAND Park in Illinois
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It sounds like they are talking about a "Discovery Centre" in a large mall rather than a full-blown "park". (15 years ago, 28-Oct-09, to lugnet.legoland, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) While creating instructions I have discovered that you can use extra dots in filenames as long as the name of the model before the first dot is unique per step in a callout. For example if you a filename like submodel.1.ldr and submodel.2.ldr (...) (15 years ago, 28-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) I think this is a good question for Kevin? ;-) (15 years ago, 28-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2009-02 Parts Update Now Available
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(...) I have a quick question about the 2009 Part Updates - As far as I can tell from the description at LDraw.org and here the updates are cumulative (I need to install 2009-1 and then 2009-2) However the names of both files are identical and as a (...) (15 years ago, 28-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | A 'possible' LEGOLAND Park in Illinois
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LEGOLAND interested in development seeking tax breaks at Glen Carbon, Ill. POST-DISPATCH SPRINGFIELD BUREAU By Kevin McDermott 10/23/2009 SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A European company is quietly talking with Illinois officials about tax incentives to build (...) (15 years ago, 28-Oct-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.legoland, FTX)
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| | CARLSBAD: LEGOLAND California Hotel project wins council approval
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CARLSBAD: LEGOLAND® California Hotel project wins council approval By BARBARA HENRY - Tuesday, October 27, 2009 (BLOCK LOOK EXTENDS TO ROOMS, EVEN CARPET) A proposal to build a 254-room, LEGO-themed hotel at the LEGOLAND California amusement park (...) (15 years ago, 28-Oct-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.legoland.california, lugnet.general, lugnet.legoland, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Pop-up Kinkaku-ji video
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(...) Wow!! (15 years ago, 28-Oct-09, to lugnet.fun, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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As long as we're having such a good dialog, here is another one. I have a very large assembly which is too large to fit on one page and still see the building details. I can zoom in and the assembly simply hangs off the edges of the page. The (...) (15 years ago, 27-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) Further research reveals that, at least in LPub 4.0.0.4, mirroring DOES work appropriately in the instructions as long as the mirrored submodel is in a callout. If it is not in a callout (for instance spanning multiple pages), then it does not (...) (15 years ago, 27-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) Thanks! I did not know about this. Presuming that I have already synthesized the axles, can I just change the Synth command to what you have above, or do I need to re-synthesize? Does LSynth take the length into account when synthesizing and (...) (15 years ago, 27-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LEGO set #10183 Hobby Train Online Instructions (.pdf format)
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(...) Thanks! (15 years ago, 27-Oct-09, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) LSynth 3.0 comes with PLI_TECHNIC_AXLE_FLEXIBLE_x meta commands. If your Synthesis is not supported use this workaround: (URL) (15 years ago, 27-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub questions
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(...) I solved the problem by re-installing LDView and removing all PrefSets from the registry before the re-install. The odd thing is, though I changed the settings in the <Default> prefset LPub didn't copy them but showed the lighting (...) (15 years ago, 27-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub questions
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(...) Hi Ronald, it did the trick but only for landscape - portrait is still messed up and also a resolution bigger than 150 DPI or a different size doesn't work either. Ideas? w. (15 years ago, 27-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) There are some programs available to create mirrored subparts without using a mirror matrix. (URL) don't know how well they work with all the new parts since they were developed, but it can't hurt to try them. Enjoy, Don (15 years ago, 27-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: RCX not listening to IR remote
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(...) They are talking about the old IR remote (#9738), not the PF one. So, it should work like a charm. Cheers, Matija (15 years ago, 27-Oct-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) OK, good tip for other users too, to not use dots in filenames. (...) I believe you have to create the submodels individually indead. That is what I always do anyway. (...) I'm afraid I do not have the exact answer to that, but I believe LPub (...) (15 years ago, 27-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Trying to contact Brickshelf user "mryoder"
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(...) Hmm, it could be me, but I cannot seem to find any E-mail address. (15 years ago, 27-Oct-09, to lugnet.people)
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| | Old Swaybacked Flatcar (No Freeloading!)
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I am please to bring you: (URL) Old Swaybacked Flatcar (No Freeloading!)> (URL) enjoy kurt (15 years ago, 27-Oct-09, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO set #10183 Hobby Train Online Instructions (.pdf format)
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(...) Thank you, Thank you, thank you! I plan to build set number 25 and then set number... (15 years ago, 27-Oct-09, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Trying to contact Brickshelf user "mryoder"
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(...) Jaco, This is Mike Yoder's Brichshelf: (URL) should be a link on that web-page to his e-mail address. --Mike. (15 years ago, 26-Oct-09, to lugnet.people)
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| | Trying to contact Brickshelf user "mryoder"
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Hi all, I am looking for Brickshelf user mryoder about your model of the Humvee on (URL) the photo’s I have created full instructions in LDraw of the model (and made some adjustments) and like to publish those on my website www.binarybricks.nl, with (...) (15 years ago, 26-Oct-09, to lugnet.people)
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| | Re: RCX not listening to IR remote
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(...) I'm not at all that certain the RCX can actually listen to the remote. If I recall correctly, Bob Kojima got the RCX to work as a remote control for the PF IR-Receiver, but to do so he used BrickOS and it would only work with an RCX 1.0 I (...) (15 years ago, 26-Oct-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LPub 4 Callouts (and other questions)
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(...) Thanks Jaco. Through the process of doing it manually and a lot of other trial and error, I discovered the problem. My submodels had a dot (.) in the title. This seemed to confuse LPub and result in the problems I saw. I converted all the dots (...) (15 years ago, 26-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: RCX not listening to IR remote
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Firstly, do you have the firmware on the RCX in question? If the screen shows 00.00.00 then you should be good (i think). Turn on the RCX, and start pressing buttons. Connected motors and lights should start doing "things" repsonding to the (...) (15 years ago, 26-Oct-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RCX not listening to IR remote
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Chris, I don't think the RCX will "listen" to the remote, unless you've loaded the firmware. The firmware will need replaced, if the batteries have been removed (or have died). On the RCX, it will show the program number (1-5), and it will also (...) (15 years ago, 26-Oct-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LDraw for teaching, drawings for production?
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(...) I guess you could use any tool that can produce images from LDraw models, but for print LDView would be the best choice. You can add text to the picture in the way Phile suggested, but any photo editing tool or DTP program can do that. I think (...) (15 years ago, 26-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad)
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