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Small insight into LEGO CAD system
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lugnet.cad
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Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:19:47 GMT
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While at Brickfest, I met Dave Bird, a technic designer for LEGO. He is a very
nice guy, and a pleasure to spend time with.
We talked about many things, but one that really got my attention was talking a
bit about CAD.
Dave wondered shy we had our own CAD system. I told him it was because we
assumed that LEGO would not allow us to use theirs.
I talked to him about LDraw, MLCad, LPub and LSynth for starters. I mentioned
how LSynth works by describing constraints, ans synthesizing the final bendable
part. For hoses and cables, he just nodded his head, but when I talked about
chains flowing around gears, and rubber bands flowing around pullyes, I got a
big reaction.
I guess we're one up on LEGO CAD in the chains area!
Kevin
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 | | Re: Small insight into LEGO CAD system
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| On 17/08/05, Kevin L. Clague <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> So did you get any reaction to suggest we might be able to use theirs? And is theirs vastly in advance of LDraw with MLCad or LeoCAD. It is possible that they just use (...) (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: Small insight into LEGO CAD system
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| (...) "assumed" is too strong of a word. AFOLs have approached LEGO, in various ways, about sharing resources for CAD. The primary example of this is probably the "CAD summit" that occurred a few years ago.(1) People from the outside met with people (...) (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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