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Re: ldraw based import parts
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Wed, 19 Mar 2003 02:49:58 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Darrell Urbien writes:
> In lugnet.cad, Thomas Burger writes:
> > for those of you who know i have made import parts,  i completed my page at
> > my website for them at: www.geocities.com/tburger666/lego
> > gregory overkamp has done models with these parts to, his link is in there..
> > 
> > the latest parts since the 12th of march 2003 are :
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/GrapeApe/import/parts/parts.jpg
> > 
> > i have made new parts, one is a "invader" kit front, part 42424.dat, shown
> > in the image:  http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/GrapeApe/import/car4d5.jpg
> 
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> 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, I've had to change my class (it would be too
> easy for a student to model his vehicle in MLCAD and submit that to me). Now I
> have them design their own parts, using LEGO as a base and the LDraw system of
> measurment.
> 
> Do you mind me pointing my students to your site for inspiration? We work in a
> slightly larger scale than minifig, though (and frankly some of the cars in the
> BShelf link don't look much like their full scale namesakes..) ;-) • *cut*
> 
> Darrell

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 pre-existing cars from older lego sets.



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  Re: ldraw based import parts
 
(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad)

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  Re: ldraw based import parts
 
(...) 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, (...) (24 years ago, 17-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad)

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