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| | | Hi Thomas, are you still around?? I think I'm finally going to be able to prototype some of these parts for you, and I had a few questions: Re: 42440 Is this a lowered chassis? Or is it the same as combining four 2x3 plates and two 2x2s with axles? (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: ldraw based import parts —Darrell Urbien
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| | | | (...) OK, apparently Thomas has left the building.. I made a bunch of his parts, and now I'm attempting to make some of Gregory Overkamp's MOCs. I'm having problems identifying some of the parts. For example, in:(URL), there appears to be a canopy (...) (20 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: ldraw based import parts —Gregory J. Overkamp
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| | | | (...) You seem to have linked the same picture twice, so i'm not sure which part you are referring to in terms of the rear canopy. As for the second piece, I modified 6238 to reduce it by one stud length and created a new piece from this. Some (...) (20 years ago, 6-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: ldraw based import parts —Darrell Urbien
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| | | | (...) Whoops! I meant (URL) The Toyota Paseo. (...) LOL. I thought the only "custom" parts were Tom's; I spent a week making his parts on an RP machine... only to be foiled by your custom parts! Oh well. I ended up modifying some of your designs (...) (20 years ago, 6-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: ldraw based import parts —Gregory J. Overkamp
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| | | | (...) First, the rear hatch is part 4858 on peeron (see (URL) just in transparent blue. Of course lego doesnt make the wedge in transparent colors, but thats the beauty of ldraw. Yes, I actually made a few custom parts, some of them modified or (...) (20 years ago, 7-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | | | | | My Big Phat RP Parts —Darrell Urbien
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| | | | Hey all, Just got my pix back from the Rapid Prototyping conference and thought I'd share.. (2 URLs) Folder Pending Mod> Full credit has to go to: Tom Burger (for designing the parts in the first place and making the DAT files freely available) Greg (...) (20 years ago, 13-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX) !
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| | | | | | Re: My Big Phat RP Parts —Joe Strout
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| | | | | (...) Those are really cool! Thanks for sharing them. If I, as a small hobbyist, wanted to make a batch of parts in this way, what would my options be? Is there any company that will take a CAD file, print a small batch of parts, and mail them to (...) (20 years ago, 13-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom)
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| | | | | | | Re: My Big Phat RP Parts —Darrell Urbien
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| | | | | | (...) Thanks - as I said, it was fun making them. (...) The short answers to your last two questions are "yes" and "yes." RP Service Bureaus exist (mostly in big cities on the East Coast of the US), but they're slowly dying off as more and more (...) (20 years ago, 14-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: My Big Phat RP Parts —Rob Hendrix
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| | | | | "Darrell Urbien" <durbien@mail.occ.cccd.edu> wrote in message news:I2DzA0.120q@lugnet.com... (...) (URL) (...) DAT (...) had to (...) and of (...) with (...) low (...) resin (...) build, (...) able (...) LEGO. (...) factor in (...) features (...) (...) (20 years ago, 13-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom)
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| | | | | | | Re: My Big Phat RP Parts —Darrell Urbien
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| | | | | | | (...) Hey! Tom's parts/Greg's models originally call for under-car neon. (URL) Sounds like it's time for a little more collaboration. Darrell (20 years ago, 14-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Rollin' on '20s —Darrell Urbien
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| | | | | | (...) Hey Rob, evidently LEGO was listening to you (and watching MB Nano car kits flying off the shelves) because the latest micro-ish Racers kits (esp. 8643 and 8644) have very nice large diameter aluminium rims and low profile tires. The kits (...) (20 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: My Big Phat RP Parts —Gregory J. Overkamp
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| | | | | In lugnet.cad, Darrell Urbien wrote: <snip> Well, consider me blown away. I never imagined I would see actual pictures of those models but there they were. I love the extra speakers in the scion too! (btw, when i made that model scion wasnt sold in (...) (20 years ago, 15-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: My Big Phat RP Parts —Darrell Urbien
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| | | | | | (...) Thanks, Greg, it means a lot to me that you like them. Now if we could only reach Tom Burger, that would be perfect - I tried to email him using the address on his last LUGNET post, but it bounced back to me. I guess I'll try his website email (...) (20 years ago, 15-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: My Big Phat RP Parts —Ben Fleskes
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| | | | <snip> (...) Way cool! Thanks for sharing. On the topic of scale. What I've determined is the following: the LDU to mm conversion is an exact conversion However: A 1x1 brick is only 7.8mm x 7.8mm and the studs are located 8.0mm for one another (...) (20 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: My Big Phat RP Parts —Darrell Urbien
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| | | | (...) Thanks, Ben! Coming from you that means a lot! (...) I would also be interested in other people's results/trials. I suppose in a perfect world we could laser scan the parts, but... I don't know how far we in parts.custom want to venture into (...) (20 years ago, 27-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: My Big Phat RP Parts —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) Darrell, that's a different Ben. But I think LEGO ought to hire both of them. :-) (20 years ago, 27-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: My Big Phat RP Parts —Darrell Urbien
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| | | | (...) Ouch, how embarrassing! Well, Ben, take back everything I said! LOL. Actually, I WAS thinking of the right Ben.. When I saw the post I linked to above, I thought.. Ben+Trains+Cool=BBB. How was I to know there was another possible solution to (...) (20 years ago, 27-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
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