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Re: Basic SET DAT database?
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lugnet.cad
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Sun, 26 May 2002 08:36:58 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Jeff McClain writes:
> > A while back ldraw was going to have a page for people to submit older lego
> > offical model. However, the debate of how to name the models was never
> > agreed upon and since then nothing became of it. I'm getting OLD and
> > SINICAL about these things but I wish you LOTS of luck trying to get
> > cooperation for this to happen. The best way, IMO, is to start asking for
> > people to give YOU their offical models and create a folder in brickshelf
> > with a) a small image of the model and the ldraw file.
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> Hum...I may just do that, if I have time. Perhaps I will have time to put
> all my current sets in there to begin with and then set up a normal mailing
> submission route as well. Probably more work than I want/need, but I'll
> see. Thought maybe someone had already done it...grin.
There is mailing list at lugnet : lugnet.cad.ldraw.models.sets where you
already can post model files. At the moment it is not a high taffic
newsgroup - only about 300 articles. But if everybody who has ever modeled a
set in ldraw or any other lego cad program sends in his files, then we could
have lots of model files in no time.
> Guess the other route is to search this newsgroup for each and every set
> number and try to find .dat's and then request permission to use on a
> centralized database...
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> > > On a related note, does anyone know why more recent models (1999 and newer)
> > > do not have scanned build instructions on the brickshelf site? I can
> > > understand if it is an agreement with LEGO not to undermine their sales of
> > > "currently available" models, but many from 1999 can't even be gotten from
> > > LEGO anymore. If it is a matter of someone submitting the scans, then I
> > > wish they would tell me HOW, and I would! I looked all over that site and
> > > couldn't find even a darn "contact" email address...
> > >
> > > Jeff McClain
> >
> > I'm not sure the reason but I would image what you stated above it probably
> > true. In any case here is the contact info I could find for brickshelf.com
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> Ah...didn't even think of doing that, Thanks!
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> I'll send the registered email on the domain an email and see what I can
> find out. Seems strange that a site like that wouldn't have any sort of
> "contact" information...
>
> -Jeff McClain
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| (...) Hum...I may just do that, if I have time. Perhaps I will have time to put all my current sets in there to begin with and then set up a normal mailing submission route as well. Probably more work than I want/need, but I'll see. Thought maybe (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-02, to lugnet.cad)
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