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Re: Purpose of physical colour parts
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Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:36:19 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Santeri Piippo wrote:
   What are the physical colour parts such as this one for? Wouldn’t it be more disk-space saving to rather have a list of coloured part numbers? I have my hands on quite a lot of them through building instructions, and I think that if one made a physical colour part of each one of them the PT would be soon cluttered up by them.

We had discussion about this several times (Please search Lugnet). Because TLG uses these days the colored numbers in the instructions, we try to bring also this number to the user. The AIOI lets you choose to install these parts or not.

I hope this answers your question.

cu mikeheide



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  Re: Purpose of physical colour parts
 
(...) I couldn't find anything revelant by searching LUGNET, but I do see sense in this... though if enough numbers were found, parts/ directory one day would contain more of PC parts rather than real parts. Wouldn't it make more sense to at least (...) (16 years ago, 12-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
  Re: Purpose of physical colour parts
 
(...) Unfortunately, I missed this discussion and haven't stumbled on the magic search phrase to dig it up again. It strikes me that creating hard-colored parts for every part/color permutation Lego ever has or ever will produce has a number of (...) (16 years ago, 13-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)

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What are the physical colour parts such as (URL) this one> for? Wouldn't it be more disk-space saving to rather have a list of coloured part numbers? I have my hands on quite a lot of them through building instructions, and I think that if one made (...) (16 years ago, 11-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)

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