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Suggestion: !TYPE line
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lugnet.cad
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Fri, 29 May 2009 09:04:57 GMT
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LEGO parts may vary in colour and pattern, but they are always of the same
material. For example, there is no such thing as a Technic Axle 7 made of rubber
or the Axle Flexible 7 that’s solid, is there?
Here I got an idea: have parts identify what material are they made of. There’d
be a !TYPE Rubber line which would identify that the part is of rubber, like
tires. Maybe also a !TYPE Soft-Plastic for parts like
50934 (though there’s a problem: only a half
of the part is of soft plastic!) and so on.
The use? Maybe there’s more than this, but colouring at the very least. Future
CAD programs could use the !TYPE line to find out what the part is made of, and
thus would know what kind of colours use for it. Say, imagine this future
program and you place tyre on a wheel and then click the black colour button to
turn it black. The program would then note that it’s of rubber and make it
colour 256 automatically!
A problem, though, is that there aren’t rubber variants for every colour. In the
latest released ldconfig.ldr, there’s 256 (Rubber-Black), 273 (Rubber-Blue), 324
(Rubber-Red), 375 (Rubber-Gray) and 511 (Rubber-White). In
the upcoming ldconfig.ldr there’s
405 (Rubber-Yellow), 406 (Rubber-Trans-Yellow) and 407 (Rubber-Trans-Clear)
defined. In these cases where there’s no rubber version of the colour the real
colour has to be used, then.
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| (...) Sounds logical, but if we would have that in this way we just could go and hard color the part. At this point you should not be so narrow to the real part. In our part files there should be only the geometric data defined. The color is defined (...) (15 years ago, 29-May-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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