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(...) Yo Darrell, By LDD, do you mean LDDesign Pad or Lego Digital Designer? If it's Lego Digital Designer, then I am still unable to get it to work on my PC. It loads the parts, then just sits there. I guess I need to go figure out what's going on (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | New Part: 3041p01.dat Brick 45 2 x 4 Double With Headlamp Pattern [DAT]
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Dear reviewers, I attach the new mentionned part. Before submitting to Part Tracker I have some questions: 1. Is the naming of the part acceptable? 2. Since this is the first patterned version of the base part, is it necessary to move the body of (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Creating 47457.dat 2x2x2/3 Sloped&Rounded
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(...) I'm willing to experiment with anything as long as it helps kids learn concepts in math, science and engineering. Of course, I'll first have to learn LDD. Sooo, I'll pick it up tomorrow. At the moment, I'm hacking away at Game Maker 6.0 beta. (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Hey Edwin, if you have time/resources could you experiment with showing kids LDD too? Or would that undermine what you're trying to do? Darrell (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) So if (...) I'm going to try some experimental pedagogy on elementary school kids starting this Tuesday. I'll be teaching about 6 Lego Robotics classes this fall where I hope to employ Virtual Lego. After I get some experience under my belt, (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Creating 47457.dat 2x2x2/3 Sloped&Rounded
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(...) I'm not a kid any more (I'm 37) and am quite new in the community. One of my deep desire is to contribute to the community by starting part authoring. So if you plan to write a tutorial (for kids it is perfect), easy to follow, about your (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Creating 47457.dat 2x2x2/3 Sloped&Rounded
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(...) My goodness, that was one massive scary part! I'm going to look that up and see how many lines it took! I would have chosen the click rotation joint. I figured I needed a very simple part to warm up. Talking about "not too far off", should I (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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(...) Ah, conditional lines! I didn't even think about those. Thanks! I'll look into it and see if I can figure it out. I'll also learn how to use Show All Edge Lines. By the way, the part is common to 3 of the large good guys of Knights Kingdom. I (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Congratulations on initial completion of your first part. (...) I don't have this part (at least I don't think), so I can't comment on the accuracy of the geometry. However, I can comment on three things I saw. First, it looks like you used color 16 (...) (20 years ago, 19-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Creating 47457.dat 2x2x2/3 Sloped&Rounded
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(...) submission (as soon as parts@ldraw.org lets me). (...) Looks good. You chose a relativle simple part for your first, unlike me: [LDrawPart 2618:7] (...) Don't worry about those. They're non-funtional and insignificant (...) Guessing is fine as (...) (20 years ago, 19-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| | Creating 47457.dat 2x2x2/3 Sloped&Rounded [DAT]
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Finally, my fair (if not terrible) first attempt at part authoring is ready for submission (as soon as parts@ldraw.org lets me). What a learning experience! It took 12 version saves to get "close". And I'm sure there's more to learn after the (...) (20 years ago, 19-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Castle Knights helmet
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(...) Hi everyone. I have posted images of the Knight's Visor and large feather on: (URL) (20 years ago, 15-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: 47457 2 x 2 x 2/3 Two Top Studs, Curved Slope End
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(...) I think I'll just create one part of it all. I don't think a primitive nor a sub-part would be necessary. Thanks. (20 years ago, 14-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Are there many parts that will need this surface? It doesn't seem like it would be that common... If it would help you to have a subfile, then create a subpart file rather than a primitive. If I've totally missed the point of your question, (...) (20 years ago, 13-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Question on part naming
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(...) If you look at what group this is (and the group charter), you'll see that my question applies only to the LDraw parts library, and not to any official LEGO naming convention. I'm looking for an official LDraw answer. As it happens, I am an (...) (20 years ago, 13-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) [snip] (...) Since the dimensions matter with wedges -- a 3x4 wedge is going to be a different shape from a 4x3 wedge -- the order of dimensions in wedge names should be fixed by axis, not given in "smaller x larger" order. For slope bricks, (...) (20 years ago, 13-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Click-Rotation Parts
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(...) Hello, I've made a common primitive for the click rotation socket parts. See (URL) of them share only the inner cogwheel. So I made a quarter of them. See (URL) I need a name (title) and a partname for that. Please make suggestions. So it's (...) (20 years ago, 13-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) I was just surfing lego.com and came across the new tutorials. In one of the pages, a similar although much simpler question than yours was asked and answered. (URL) almost wanted to port you question for the experts at lego.com to answer. (...) (20 years ago, 13-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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I noticed some inconsistancy in the naming of some of the wedge parts. Some are named with the smaller number first, and others are named with the numbers placed to match the numbers used on bricks based on the X and Z axes. For example, 41765 is (...) (20 years ago, 12-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | 47468 2 x 1.5 x 2/3 Sloped and Curved with Flair
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Peeron does not have this in inventory. It's found as a leg or arm armour on all the good knights in Knights Kingdom. How do I ask Peeron to include this part in their inventory? This is going to be a fun part to author! (20 years ago, 10-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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