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OT: LEGO+Sploids+KNEX Models w/MCLAD
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lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad
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Sat, 16 Mar 2002 19:52:29 GMT
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I know it's off topic, but for those that didn't know, one can use LDRAW or
MLCAD to make models using Knex(R) pieces, LEGO(R), and Sploids(R). Sploids
let one build with and interconnect LEGO and Knex. I just ordered some
Sploids, but I noticed that the website (http://www.sploids.com) had DAT
files of the parts. I'm still trying to figure out a way to use the sploids
effectively, but I made some test renderings of a modular space truss made
of Knex elements and it came out kinda' neat looking. Please check it out
here : http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=13655
-Xanthra47
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: OT: LEGO+Sploids+KNEX Models w/MCLAD
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| (...) written in 1999, so it's apparent that the project has been underway for some time. This may be bad news for Ryan Farrington, who not so long ago went to considerable trouble to write some very cool DAT files for K'nex parts, too: (URL) A (...) (23 years ago, 16-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
| | | Re: OT: LEGO+Sploids+KNEX Models w/MCLAD
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| [trimmed .cad.mlcad from newsgroup list] (...) Those DAT files are kind of a mess. Besides all going into one directory, they aren't marked as to what files are usable parts, and which are subfiles. Even worse, they're buggy. :( In a different (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad)
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