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Re: New Part: Modulex\brk0220.dat - Modulex (R) Brick 2 x 20
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Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:44:42 GMT
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Chris Dee wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Tore Eriksson wrote:
> > Have you really considered the consequenses when modelling? It will
> > be almost impossible to calculate the positions of the parts. Or at
> > least very, very time consuming.

OK, I see the problem.

> I think I'd rather treat Modulex as a separate building medium -
> effectively a separate CAD parts library, as other have done for
> K'Nex. By scaling as Tore suggests, all the the existing drawing and
> rendering tools should work well, without having do deal with
> fractional positions, just by changing the LDRAWPATH. That just leave
> the parts authors to deal with the scaling issue, rather than forcing
> it upon the users.

This is a good idea. So I would agree with that.

CU Bernd



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  Re: New Part: Modulex\brk0220.dat - Modulex (R) Brick 2 x 20
 
(...) I'm inclined to agree, as I have been struggling with this conceptual problem, since borrowing a selection of Modulex with the intention of authoring some parts for LDraw. Are there any Modulex parts that _do_ actually bind with regular LEGO? (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)

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