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Re: Crazy idea for third-party Factory-like service
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lugnet.cad
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Sun, 28 Aug 2005 23:31:18 GMT
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On 27/08/05, Larry Whitman <larry.whitman@wichita.edu> wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Joe Strout wrote:
> Beautiful idea!
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> If I may add a slight suggestion...
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> How about just writing some code for bricklink and selling it to them which
> takes an mlcad model and scans Bricklink for the best deal for those pieces or
> all pieces from one vendor etc. Kind of like peeron does for individual pieces
> already (at least I don't think this capability already exists!)
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> Larry
Crazy sounding ideas always turn out to be the best ones. The
bricklink thing could also link with the peeron parts list, so you
already have a good idea of which bricks you already have. However -
those may be tied up in other models. I really like the sound of use.
Orionrobots
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http://orionrobots.co.uk - Build Robots
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| (...) The problem exists that Bricklink doesn't use the same numbering system that Peeron does for parts where the number is unknown. Bricklink and Peeron also differ, in some cases, on part naming. This leads to the neccesity of constructing a huge (...) (19 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Beautiful idea! If I may add a slight suggestion... How about just writing some code for bricklink and selling it to them which takes an mlcad model and scans Bricklink for the best deal for those pieces or all pieces from one vendor etc. Kind (...) (19 years ago, 27-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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