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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 (...) (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I think we're about 2000 up on them ;-). Tim (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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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)
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(...) Dave wondered why we didn't start with LEGO's CAD. I responded that I doubted LEGO would have let us at the time. LEGO has hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in their CAD system, and that it would be foolish to give that away, allowing (...) (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Did he mention an diferentiation between the system they use to design parts (that get sent to manufacturing) and some sort of system they assemble parts into models??? It seems to me in my limited exposure to the model deisgners that they (...) (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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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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