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Hi, all. I usually build alternate models, but I recently came to the conclusion that just building a decent model from a limited selection of parts isn't enough of a challenge. So, I've developed a new building technique to make more sophisticated (...) (15 years ago, 28-Jul-09, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New LDConfig.ldr color file
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(...) for MLCAD use: (URL) (15 years ago, 28-Jul-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New LDConfig.ldr color file
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(...) <snip a lot of info> Seems like quite an undertaking. (...) My vote would go to keeping the old ldraw colors, like said else were most monitors aren't calibrated. (...) I don't know about other software but my LD4DStudio uses the config file (...) (15 years ago, 28-Jul-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) All new color codes except 313 Maersk Blue generate errors in L3Lab and L3P because the numbers just had to be picked from the forbidden zone... :( :( :( /Tore (15 years ago, 28-Jul-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Technic Axle Joiner / Cross Block descriptions
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(...) Alright, that's cool...but how exactly would you suggest making the distinction between the three different 1x3 saddle joints? Perhaps like this: (...) And then you just need to assume that everyone knows exactly which order in which these (...) (15 years ago, 28-Jul-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I don't really know what I'm talking about here, but I think there might be a big difference between the representation of RGB values in a dye based color system for bricks, another one for printing on paper, and a color system for computer (...) (15 years ago, 28-Jul-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) "cheese wedge". It won't come up as "slope grille" either, while Peeron produces seven different parts that merely include those words at various points in their descriptions. Sorry, but their search engine verges on being an excellent cure (...) (15 years ago, 28-Jul-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) SNIP (...) So it'd be goodbye for Stone Gray? :-( Well, I can live with that.. (...) Nice! :-) SNIP (...) Hmm... looking at the new colours I'd be otherwise fine sans the new Black... looks too bluish for me. (...) Well that's going to be (...) (15 years ago, 28-Jul-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Technic Axle Joiner / Cross Block descriptions
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(...) I'd be for dimensions but not the hole sequence.. the hole sequence goes into redundancies IMHO. So for example I'd like 6536.dat to be "Technic Axle Joiner Perpendicular 1 x 2". (15 years ago, 28-Jul-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) LEGO database? To those who work for them, their part description may not be as optional as ours. However, that doesn't mean that we should make emotional choices. I worship TLG as much as the next AFOL, but we already know they don't put (...) (15 years ago, 28-Jul-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi folks, working on and off for almost a year with Scott Wardlaw, Alex Taylor and with the help from Joshua Delahunty we put together a new LDConfig file which hopefully fills in where the old version failed: (URL) file has the following (...) (15 years ago, 28-Jul-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Re: Technic Axle Joiner / Cross Block descriptions
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(...) I agree with Philo, would remove the Axle/Pin qualifier in front and go for example with "Technic Joiner Perpendicular 1 x 2 (Axle/Pin)" w. (15 years ago, 28-Jul-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) The LEGO database lists the following names: 6536 CROSS BLOCK 90° 32184 DOUBLE CROSS BLOCK 32068 TECHNIC STEERING-GEAR 3M 32291 TECHNIC CROSS BLOCK 2X4,85 41678 TECHNIC CROSS BLOCK/FORK 2X2 42003 CROSS BLOCK 3M 32557 TECHNIC CROSSBLOCK 2X3 I (...) (15 years ago, 28-Jul-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Bricksmith 2.2: Your Favorite(s)
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(2 URLs) Bricksmith 2.2> adds the following features: Part favorites Supports MacBook trackpad gestures Middle mouse button activates spin mode Pen tablet eraser deletes parts Colors sort by hue It also fixes the following bugs: Center-click/smooth (...) (15 years ago, 28-Jul-09, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Good thing number of Ldraw members has nothing to do with number of Ldraw users :) While I agree it would be nice if the two sources matched, unfortunately they serve totally different purposes, and that is unlikely to ever happen. BL has (...) (15 years ago, 28-Jul-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) So then, we shall say the same? Both us and BL have long-lived and complicated systems. I never really expected you or DATHeader to instantly change your way of life, but I believe that it is time to consider subtle changes to help bring our (...) (15 years ago, 28-Jul-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Not to point fingers or start a flame war but as I recall everytime anyone has suggested that Bricklink change to conform to some other standard, it has been rebuffed by the BL admins. This lack of willingness to compromise has, at least in (...) (15 years ago, 27-Jul-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Good thing you don't have to agree for the statement to still be true. Ldraw has just over 3 thousand members. BrickLink has nearly 110 thousand. Peeron is great for the one resource that it is most used for - historical instructions on LEGO (...) (15 years ago, 27-Jul-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) None of those parts should really be referred to as "axle joiners" or "pin joiners". The only parts that should have those names are the ones that join them end-to-end. These parts are all what a hardware store would recognize as a saddle (...) (15 years ago, 27-Jul-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) See, right there I couldn't agree with you less. I spend a lot more time producing a design in LDraw than I do plugging the parts list into Bricklink, and when I'm doing so I generally have to stick to part numbers rather than descriptions (...) (15 years ago, 27-Jul-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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