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Well, interesting to me... While building the TIE Fighter set, I noticed an obvious CAD-ism in the instructions. Looking at the inset in step 10 (on page 3), the outer edges of the 4x4 radar dish are obviously composed of lines, not a smooth curve. (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I don't know where you heard about the 2D library but it's wrong, they use a 3D CAD program. Leonardo (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Leonardo, I know you have some inside information, if you can would you please tell us which CAD program they use? Paulo (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad)
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"Leonardo Zide" <leonardo@centroin.com.br> wrote in message news:3A40E2B8.E52386....com.br... (...) has (...) part (...) Some of the errors in past instructions simply could not have been created by a 3D CAD program, unless there was post-process (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) The error you noticed has also been seen last year in the initial release of the soccor sets... And probably a few others. LEGO has their own in-house 3D LEGO CAD program of sorts. It's pretty new. (And that's all I know about it) They used to (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Don't get me started on the Soccer sets. Anytime somebody asks about modeling the minifig hair, we can just point them to the Soccer instructions for examples of bad hair pieces. ;) (...) It wasn't pixelation. It was curved edges which were (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I know what you mean, but I don't remember a good example, either. Steve (24 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I can't say anything, they made me sign a NDA. Sorry. Leonardo (24 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad)
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I bet they use one of them multimillion dollar programs. The backgrounds on the old technic sets look a lot like they were autocad drawings. But it would make sense for them to just use the same data they have from the molds for the plastic as (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad)
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