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(...) SNIP (...) I have been asked for some pictures of what I am working on (very much prototypes at the present - don't expect anything elegant). (URL) is the track for the tray, and the drive mechanism. As the axle at the front (bottom) of the (...) (15 years ago, 22-Jan-10, to lugnet.technic)
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In lugnet.cad, Chris Dee wrote: snip (...) The zip archive's chief virtue is not its familiarity, but its cross-platform portability. It's very important to maintain that. (...) I fixed that Bricksmith bug about a year and a half ago, so you don't (...) (15 years ago, 22-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGOLAND® Florida : A new theme park
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All, Here is a link to some local news in Florida... (URL) you want to see the full press conf. pick on the link in the video section... Robin Werner GFLUG (15 years ago, 22-Jan-10, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: AUCTIONBRICK.COM is returning!!
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(...) I mentioned your auction site on the BLink forum since like was mentioned, all auctions have now been removed from BrickLink. Good luck with your site now that you have less competition! (15 years ago, 21-Jan-10, to lugnet.market.auction, FTX)
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Yes that's right LEGOLAND® is coming to Florida. As mention and reported from different websites. News was leaked Wednesday afternoon in e-mails that the former home of Cypress Gardens Adventure Park in Winter Haven, Florida has been purchased and (...) (15 years ago, 21-Jan-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.legoland, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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| | Re: LDraw Names for Monorail Parts
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(...) It makes more sense for "Monorail" to be a valid CATEGORY than some of the existing ones, so I added it a while ago. The definitive list is at (URL) Chris (15 years ago, 21-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.trains)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés mercredi 20 janvier 2010
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Bonjour Voici la lettre d'information du site "FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group" ((URL) lettre recense les articles et les brèves publiés depuis 1 jours. Nouveaux articles ---...--- ** Les 24 heures de Jeux de Theix ** par Jean-Marc (...) (15 years ago, 21-Jan-10, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | Changes to this group
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Posting privs to this group are handed over from Matt Chiles (founder of AuctionBrick) to Scott Larson (new owner of AuctionBrick). -Rene (15 years ago, 21-Jan-10, to lugnet.announce.auctionbrick)
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(...) Hello Everyone This is reply is telling everyone that auctionbrick.com is now up and running. I would to thank you to Matt (lugnet member and former owner of auctionbrick.com) for of his help in getting the site back up running again. More (...) (15 years ago, 20-Jan-10, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) I think there is some part of your equation that we don't realize/understand? I can view all my LDRAW models without any updating, thanks to the "moved to" concept. The models doesn't become obsolete even though the part numbers are updated. (...) (15 years ago, 20-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Yellow or Flesh?
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(...) The color changes all started in 2004. Greys became bleys, brown became reddish-brown, and yellow licensed minifigs became fleshies. There is no "which sets" anymore. If it's Star Wars, Indiana Jones, or any other licensed property, it should (...) (15 years ago, 20-Jan-10, to lugnet.starwars)
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Incidentally apparently the new Luke's Landspeeder 8092 is definitely using crappy flesh pieces. I am looking at a paper catalog for January 2010 and it does show all Star Wars minifigures as being YELLOW. Most notably the ones included in the Death (...) (15 years ago, 20-Jan-10, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) I was going to start my response with "I don't understand", but Orion beat me to it. It is absolutely not necessary to update existing models with the replacement file referred to by the "~Moved to" file, but maybe I am missing something about (...) (15 years ago, 20-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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I don't get this whole flesh minifig licensing crap. But regardless, I am even more confused by what sets have what color minifigs. A number of Star Wars sets, both in pictures on the Lego site now, and in Brickshelf, Peeron, etc pictures seem to (...) (15 years ago, 20-Jan-10, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) You should take heart from the fact that this phenomenon has slowed a GREAT deal in recent times, the number of possible renumbers is way way down, and number accuracy is way up. TLG doesn't tend to switch from solid to hollow studs anymore, (...) (15 years ago, 20-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Shop @ Home Phone Specials for Wednesday, January 20, 2010, to Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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Item #7996 City Trail Rail Crossing R/C Retail Price: $24.99 Sale Price: $9.98 Item # 852524 Minifigure Cookie Cutters Retail Price: $7.99 Sale Price: $3.98 Item # 852716 Mutt Williams Key Chain Retail Price: $4.99 Sale Price: $2.48 Item # 852717 (...) (15 years ago, 20-Jan-10, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Hmmm, subparts are used by many parts so I can see how they might be referenced a gazillion times by an extremely large model file like Datsville. (...) What tool makes the movedto.log file that's giving you such trouble? Can it be adjusted to (...) (15 years ago, 20-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LEGO Systems and Atlantis, Paradise Island Resort
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PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas and ENFIELD, Conn., Jan. 19, 2010 /PRNewswire/ LEGO® Systems and Atlantis, Paradise Island Resort Announce the World's First-Ever LEGO Summer Camp Programs. This July, Your Child Can Experience 5 Days of LEGO Building, (...) (15 years ago, 20-Jan-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Please help me identify this brick!
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(...) Aha many thanks! That also explains what the black and white striped discs are for! I'll have to keep an eye out for the 'control panel' thing on ebay! Cheers, -Mat (15 years ago, 20-Jan-10, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Please help me identify this brick!
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(...) Yes, it's a 4.5V part, incuded in some education sets, see (URL) be used as a rotation sensor with this disc: (URL) (15 years ago, 20-Jan-10, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I don't understand what you're saying here, Tore. The ~Moved To files prevent the need to update already existing files by providing a back reference to the old part number. This prevents a part from disappearing from a model simply because (...) (15 years ago, 20-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Instead of ~Moved to
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(...) Yes, I know my suggested approach has its obvious downsides. But the current system really makes me Yike!, too. When do we reach the point where the downsides of the current system overturn the advantages? I think we've already passed that (...) (15 years ago, 20-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Castle parts for sale
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Hello everyone, Plenty of part lots are still available. All pieces are in great condition and come from a smoke free household. They have been in storage for years and have minimal use. :) Here is the entire lot for sale. (URL) is $200 or best (...) (15 years ago, 20-Jan-10, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) <snip> (...) (the "fake" number 111 sticks around, and the official design number 2222 points to it) Yikes! So you want everyone stuck with 111 for all eternity? With the current system, I'm free to remove 111.dat if I don't want it, and end (...) (15 years ago, 20-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) <SNIP> (...) The problem is that it doesn't. As I pointed out in my latest post, (URL) , almost every single existing LDraw model file ever made needs to be updated with every parts update realeasd. That has absolutely nothing to do with true (...) (15 years ago, 20-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Instead of ~Moved to
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(...) For some reason, those 18 "moved to" files in parts\s make a lot of noise for me. I know they shouldn't but they do and I haven't figured out the reason yet. There is another problem. It is kind of subtile, so I don't know if I'm able to (...) (15 years ago, 20-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: ControlLab 70909 Interface (9751?) VB.NET Class (DLL)
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(...) Thanks for the update. The documentation is well written and organized. I look forward to future updates. If you need any help with testing or anything, just drop me an email. Brian (15 years ago, 20-Jan-10, to lugnet.dacta)
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(...) Actually, the 9V motor also had the same issue around corners, but I believe it was not caused by the required wheel slip, but by the increased friction on the flanges when they run at a (fairly large) angle to the rails on the corners. This (...) (15 years ago, 20-Jan-10, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Advanced folks could have MovedTo directory and move all the "0 ~Moved To" files there. You can then add MovedTo to MLCad.ini to tell it about the MovedTo directory. You keep the MovedTo files (if you want), MLCad's auto update, and yet not (...) (15 years ago, 19-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Question about gearing Power Functions-based trains
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I've noticed that because the Emerald Night's two sets of driver wheels are locked together, the engine struggles to go around corners: the outer wheels have further to turn, so the wheels slip and the engine's movement becomes jerky. Would it be (...) (15 years ago, 19-Jan-10, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | dSwitch Aquasaurs Temp Monitor
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Hey gang I just finished this MOC. This one use a LEGO Mindstorms NXT and a dSwitch to control a 120V light to aid in heating an Aquasaurs tank. More info at the link below: (URL) (15 years ago, 19-Jan-10, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LDDP version 2.1 beta test
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(...) I have not tested version 2.1 yet, but in version 2.0 you could disable polling in the extra menu. Or enable to poll on demand. cu mikeheide (15 years ago, 19-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Yes, another method will break MLCad's update mechanism. I also like that. But maybe also another solution will work that way, but it has to be implemented. On the other side if we use the proposed way you also will have the latest geometrie (...) (15 years ago, 19-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Instead of ~Moved to
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Tore, I'm not really seeing the problem in the parts\s directory - there are 18 "moved to" files there. My parts directory has 456 "moved to" files, but there's not really any way around having those -- they serve two purposes: a) provide backwards (...) (15 years ago, 19-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Instead of ~Moved to
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(...) I'm not much of an expert in this area, but that never stops me from shooting my mouth off! On unix (e.g. Mac), it would be easy enough to use grep/find to find the files that contain "0 ~Moved to" and simply remove them. Cygwin on Windows (...) (15 years ago, 19-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDDP version 2.1 beta test
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In lugnet.cad, Philippe Hurbain wrote: SNIP (...) indeed! Also I'd appreciate an option to turn polling off globally and completely would be great. I'm getting sick of getting greeted by tens of Confirm boxes each time I save my part in MLCad and (...) (15 years ago, 19-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Selling Lego collection
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(...) Thanks, it will take a while as I am describing in detail and using my own pictures. John P (15 years ago, 19-Jan-10, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Instead of ~Moved to
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I also agree that the current system is...extravagant. 'litter files' also seems like an appropriate term for the thousands of unnecessary files that clutter my LDraw library. Personnally, I'd like my library to only have actual parts; no ~Moved to (...) (15 years ago, 19-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) John's set list can be found here: (URL) It will take a while to load since he owns at least one set of virtually every Lego set in the Legnut database. (15 years ago, 19-Jan-10, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Selling Lego collection
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(...) I am member 956 on Lugnet. Thanks for the kind words, this is really hard to do this. John P (15 years ago, 19-Jan-10, to lugnet.general)
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