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| After digging around for about a hour on Lego CAD websites, I'm completely stumped as to what a Leog "unit" translates into as far as real world units go (i.e. inches, millimeters, etc.) can anyone help me? Thanks -Orion (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) I'm not 100% sure, but if you mean the centre to centre spacing of the studs (and hence, the approximate width of a 1x1 plate/brick) they're either 8mm or 5/16 of an inch (despite being from Canada, I'm inclined to believe 5/16" is more (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| That's a pretty straightforward calculation if you know the dimensions of a Lego piece. However, actually measuring Lego parts doesn't give very even measurements in either inches or millimeters. Note that a plate is 8 LDU thick and that a 1-stud (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| I was actually looking for a viable conversion so I can start designing parts in Rhino. Right now all my peices are huge so I want a coversion factor to scale my renders for use in MLCAD (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| I've got a program that calculates that somewhere, in fact it should be at my website, (URL) if not I'll get it on my lego page which should be up pretty soon. -Matt (URL) <pobursky@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:G7A7Ex.E3I@lugnet.com... (...) (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) I have a calculator that I just made that converts LDU(LDraw Units) to inches and mm (plus a few other functions). (URL) (Main Ldraw Index) (URL) (Finished parts) (URL) (In process) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) According to the Lego FAQ, the ubiquitous 2x4 brick is one and a quarter inches long (1.25"). Since's it's four studs long, it's also got a length of 80 (4x20) LDraw units (LDU). Thus, 80 LDU equals 1.25 inches. Or, 80 LDU = 1.25" = (5/4)" (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad)
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