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| | | for those of you who know i have made import parts, i completed my page at my website for them at: www.geocities.com/tb...er666/lego gregory overkamp has done models with these parts to, his link is in there.. the latest parts since the 12th of (...) (21 years ago, 17-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: ldraw based import parts —Darrell Urbien
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| | | | | (...) Very nice parts! I teach a class in 3D CAD at a Community College in California, and I have had my students model a LEGO dragster for a few semesters now. As LDraw gets better and better with the additions of applications like LPub and LSynth, (...) (21 years ago, 17-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | Re: ldraw based import parts —Thomas Burger
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| | | | | | | i completed my page at (...) by all means yes! and prototyping my parts? lol am i dreaming? yes go ahead. if it works make the side parts and spioler to (21 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: ldraw based import parts —Darrell Urbien
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| | | | | | | | (...) OK, cool; I might even make one of my students do it! LOL. But again, be aware we won't even be starting again until the Fall - August 2003...California's budget crisis has meant we had to cut a bunch of classes (including the one that was (...) (21 years ago, 20-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: ldraw based import parts —Thomas Burger
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| | | | | | | | (...) ok thanks darrell. if you, or anyone else really likes these parts i make, i have added a feedback form page (testing it anyway) at www.geocities.com/tb...dback.html my next 3 choices for kits are: drift kit : example (URL) kit : example (...) (21 years ago, 20-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | Re: ldraw based import parts —Gregory J. Overkamp
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| | | | | | (...) *cut* (...) Yeah, accurate cars are hard to model at minifig scale, but i tried. Actually i only gave actual names to the first batch, then just gave them names like racetruck- generic names are much more fitting. Now i moved to tuning (...) (21 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: ldraw based import parts —Darrell Urbien
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| | | | | | (...) Hello Gregory, I agree, the shape of automobiles is hard to selectively compress in scale and still be "recognizable" as their full scale counterparts. I get the feeling it would almost be easier to model in microfig because you could get away (...) (21 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: ldraw based import parts —Gregory J. Overkamp
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| | | | | | I didn't take it as a "slam" but i appreciate the message. You might have actually noticed i cleaned up the folder a little bit, deleted some of the older cars. Two reasons for this- one there are a lot more models coming, after all i just got bunch (...) (21 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: ldraw based import parts —Darrell Urbien
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| | | | Hi Thomas, are you still around?? I think I'm finally going to be able to prototype some of these parts for you, and I had a few questions: Re: 42440 Is this a lowered chassis? Or is it the same as combining four 2x3 plates and two 2x2s with axles? (...) (20 years ago, 16-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: ldraw based import parts —Darrell Urbien
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| | | | (...) OK, apparently Thomas has left the building.. I made a bunch of his parts, and now I'm attempting to make some of Gregory Overkamp's MOCs. I'm having problems identifying some of the parts. For example, in:(URL), there appears to be a canopy (...) (20 years ago, 2-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: ldraw based import parts —Gregory J. Overkamp
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| | | | (...) You seem to have linked the same picture twice, so i'm not sure which part you are referring to in terms of the rear canopy. As for the second piece, I modified 6238 to reduce it by one stud length and created a new piece from this. Some (...) (20 years ago, 6-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: ldraw based import parts —Darrell Urbien
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| | | | (...) Whoops! I meant (URL) The Toyota Paseo. (...) LOL. I thought the only "custom" parts were Tom's; I spent a week making his parts on an RP machine... only to be foiled by your custom parts! Oh well. I ended up modifying some of your designs (...) (20 years ago, 6-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: ldraw based import parts —Gregory J. Overkamp
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| | | | (...) First, the rear hatch is part 4858 on peeron (see (URL) just in transparent blue. Of course lego doesnt make the wedge in transparent colors, but thats the beauty of ldraw. Yes, I actually made a few custom parts, some of them modified or (...) (20 years ago, 7-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | | | | | My Big Phat RP Parts —Darrell Urbien
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| | | | Hey all, Just got my pix back from the Rapid Prototyping conference and thought I'd share.. (2 URLs) Folder Pending Mod> Full credit has to go to: Tom Burger (for designing the parts in the first place and making the DAT files freely available) Greg (...) (20 years ago, 13-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX) !
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| | | | | | Re: My Big Phat RP Parts —Joe Strout
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| | | | | (...) Those are really cool! Thanks for sharing them. If I, as a small hobbyist, wanted to make a batch of parts in this way, what would my options be? Is there any company that will take a CAD file, print a small batch of parts, and mail them to (...) (20 years ago, 13-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom)
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| | | | | | | Re: My Big Phat RP Parts —Darrell Urbien
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| | | | | | (...) Thanks - as I said, it was fun making them. (...) The short answers to your last two questions are "yes" and "yes." RP Service Bureaus exist (mostly in big cities on the East Coast of the US), but they're slowly dying off as more and more (...) (20 years ago, 14-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: My Big Phat RP Parts —Rob Hendrix
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| | | | | "Darrell Urbien" <durbien@mail.occ.cccd.edu> wrote in message news:I2DzA0.120q@lugnet.com... (...) (URL) (...) DAT (...) had to (...) and of (...) with (...) low (...) resin (...) build, (...) able (...) LEGO. (...) factor in (...) features (...) (...) (20 years ago, 13-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom)
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| | | | | | | Re: My Big Phat RP Parts —Darrell Urbien
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| | | | | | | (...) Hey! Tom's parts/Greg's models originally call for under-car neon. (URL) Sounds like it's time for a little more collaboration. Darrell (20 years ago, 14-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Rollin' on '20s —Darrell Urbien
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| | | | | | (...) Hey Rob, evidently LEGO was listening to you (and watching MB Nano car kits flying off the shelves) because the latest micro-ish Racers kits (esp. 8643 and 8644) have very nice large diameter aluminium rims and low profile tires. The kits (...) (20 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: My Big Phat RP Parts —Gregory J. Overkamp
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| | | | | In lugnet.cad, Darrell Urbien wrote: <snip> Well, consider me blown away. I never imagined I would see actual pictures of those models but there they were. I love the extra speakers in the scion too! (btw, when i made that model scion wasnt sold in (...) (20 years ago, 15-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: My Big Phat RP Parts —Darrell Urbien
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| | | | | | (...) Thanks, Greg, it means a lot to me that you like them. Now if we could only reach Tom Burger, that would be perfect - I tried to email him using the address on his last LUGNET post, but it bounced back to me. I guess I'll try his website email (...) (20 years ago, 15-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: My Big Phat RP Parts —Ben Fleskes
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| | | | <snip> (...) Way cool! Thanks for sharing. On the topic of scale. What I've determined is the following: the LDU to mm conversion is an exact conversion However: A 1x1 brick is only 7.8mm x 7.8mm and the studs are located 8.0mm for one another (...) (20 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: My Big Phat RP Parts —Darrell Urbien
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| | | | (...) Thanks, Ben! Coming from you that means a lot! (...) I would also be interested in other people's results/trials. I suppose in a perfect world we could laser scan the parts, but... I don't know how far we in parts.custom want to venture into (...) (20 years ago, 27-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: My Big Phat RP Parts —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) Darrell, that's a different Ben. But I think LEGO ought to hire both of them. :-) (20 years ago, 27-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: My Big Phat RP Parts —Darrell Urbien
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| | | | (...) Ouch, how embarrassing! Well, Ben, take back everything I said! LOL. Actually, I WAS thinking of the right Ben.. When I saw the post I linked to above, I thought.. Ben+Trains+Cool=BBB. How was I to know there was another possible solution to (...) (20 years ago, 27-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
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