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Re: Part color availability
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:56:07 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Roland Melkert wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> While working on my editor I got the idea of helping the user pick colors for
> parts by (optionally) limiting the color picker to colors in which the current
> part is available in real-life (e.g. black, white, light gray for axles).
> 
> Does anybody know of a good (if any) source to get such information? I'm making
> it a self learning thing (like use an axle in black and the limiter for that
> part will include black from then on.) But it would be nice to have some kind of
> starting situation.
> 
> Roland

The 2 best places would probably be Peeron.com or Bricklink.  Be aware that
Bricklink's naming system is sometimes different from LDraw and Peeron's.

-Orion



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Part color availability
 
(...) LDconfig color names are exactly the same as Bricklink's color names, but have underscores '_' instead of spaces ' '. Scott (16 years ago, 17-Jan-11, to lugnet.cad)
  Re: Part color availability
 
(...) Thanks, I was hoping for something easier, but it should be doable to setup lookup information for core parts by cross referencing inventories. Thanks (16 years ago, 22-Jan-11, to lugnet.cad)

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  Part color availability
 
Hello all, While working on my editor I got the idea of helping the user pick colors for parts by (optionally) limiting the color picker to colors in which the current part is available in real-life (e.g. black, white, light gray for axles). Does (...) (16 years ago, 16-Jan-11, to lugnet.cad)

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