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Re: Creating a Catalogue of LDD Elements
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Mon, 19 Jun 2006 03:13:55 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Christopher Masi wrote:
> I prefer to design models using LDGlite instead of LDD, but constantly
> checking LDD for part availability is, well, troublesome. I usually wind
> up with one computer running LDD and the other running LDGLite just so I
> can look at the parts that are available in LDD while I'm running
> LDGLite. I considered creating a web page with pictures and part numbers
> for all of the available parts, but I gave up... 500 elements was just
> too many. So, anyone want to work together and break up the project into
> more manageable bits?
> 
> I suggest that anyone who wants to help can choose one of the LDD
> sub-pallets (plates, bricks, tiles, etc.) and create gif's (or are png's
> more appropriate?) and then those images could be stitched together into
>   a web page. Also, maybe someone could make the pages searchable? I
> don't know, could a javascript be written that allows a browser to
> search a list of filenames for certain words and then display the images
> with the appropriate words?
> 
> So we need...
> Volunteers to create the images of the pieces.
> Volunteers to put the pieces together into a static web page.
> Someone to look into creating a browser powered searchable database
> (with everything stored locally).
> Someone to host the archive for download.
> 
> I'll volunteer to create some of the images.
> I'll volunteer to help create a static web page (if know one minds
> really old and only so-so html)
> 
> Anyone, anyone...
> Chris

I found some time to play around with this again over the weekend.  The data
conversion is much more complete, includes the part names, and is searchable.

http://www.truedimensions.com/lego/misc/lddBrickSet.php

Note that there are still a couple of parts that don't get mapped correctly
though.

J



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(...) [...] (...) Wow, I propose a kludge for creating a list of elements in LDD and people jump up and point out that LEGO has a list (thanks), and others go on to design pages that read the information right out of the LDD files! The only thing (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad)

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I prefer to design models using LDGlite instead of LDD, but constantly checking LDD for part availability is, well, troublesome. I usually wind up with one computer running LDD and the other running LDGLite just so I can look at the parts that are (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad)

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