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(...) have (...) slim (...) That's interesting -- the one I found was grey, and no towball-hole. I don't have any bendy-arm people, and I don't think they had grey hands. Steve (26 years ago, 6-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) i agree completely... i say we handle our parts/sub parts in the same way TLG does... if glued-parts have 2 separate numbers, then lets model both halves separately, then use any conglomerate numbers for complete elements.. if they are (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I have two different versions of this part... one is (in my collection) always molded in yellow, and was used as hands in the large bendy-arm figures. This one does not have a hole in the towball. The second is always molded in grey, and does (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ah, I understand :) (...) In this case, it seems that a use-specific name such as: "Technic Tie Rod" might be appropriate, since even if one doesn't use this part as a steering linkage, the "specific" term "tie-rod" is actually generic enough (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Part Numbering Crisis in LDraw
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Terry K (legoverse@geocities.com) comments Karim's "30086.dat" and "30087.dat" in colour 16, and "4106548.dat" in yellow/yellow suggestion (which I support): (...) Yes. The problem is that this is a multi-mold part which is likely to appear in (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I ran across one of the 'hands' for old bendy-arm people the other day, and it reminded me of a discussion (which I can't locate now) in these parts about this element, and whether it had a thread-hole in the towball or not.[1] The one I have (ok, I (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) This sounds like a very good idea. It will also make it easier to include the Technic Linkage part which comes with the Y-wing. (8 of them in every Y-wing, don't know just how long they are.) Here's one more suggestion as to the title: (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Part Numbering Crisis in LDraw
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Karim (knassar@mindspring.com) wrote: [...] (...) I am aware of the problems with using a different number for the part file than the one (visibly) stamped on the part, but I think it would be sufficient if a comment in the dinghy bottom (and top) (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) 2637 should be renamed to something like 2637.DAT Technic Axle 16 with End Links 2637.DAT Technic Axle 16 with Holes 2637.DAT Technic Axle 16 with End Connectors Steve (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I replaced the multiline label from symantec with a textarea with editing turned off to get similar functionality. That worked. Quite a few models cause out of memory exceptions if run using the default heap size in java. The default heap is (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I don't think you understood what part we were talking about. These are the three parts we do _not_ want to group together: 2637.DAT Technic Link 16L 3711.DAT Technic Link Chain 3873.DAT Technic Link Tread Don't worry, I originally thought the (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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This is great, Mookie. Now if you added a sound file that says something like "Who's there" when the lights come on it would really rock! Roy (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)
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Selçuk wrote in message ... (...) come (...) Actually, you could consider some of the digressions as idle chatter until something more interesting comes up. Unless the idle chatter IS more interesting. (...) None the less, speculation as to why TLG (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) wow tamy!! looks sweet!! (is that what all the L3PAO help was for??? :) you did a great job! J (26 years ago, 4-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)
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(...) I disagree completely! The Links and the Tread Links are virtually the same, except that the tread has an additional component. They are completely compatible, and are often used (by me, anyway) in concert to achieve various design goals. I (...) (26 years ago, 4-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Sproaticus wrote in message <36DDBF56.3E0556A@ge...es.com>... (...) Too many! The z buffering doesn't seem to be working quite the way I want, the quad code is just totally hacked together, I'm being way inefficient with memory, I know that I'm (...) (26 years ago, 4-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Ah hah! The Xoom server is sending the wrong content-type for the jar file durring the HTTP conversation. The jar is not corrupted, but when downloading with a browser that doesn't know not to trust that content-type, it DOES get corrupted. I made a (...) (26 years ago, 4-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I think there are probably a lot of patterned elements with this problem. But we know there's a better way of doing things. Steve (26 years ago, 4-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) This is a good point, yes. I did not consider this. I originally thought it would be a good idea to use "Technic Link" as the first two words in the description, to make them sort next to each other, then add "Chain" and "Tread" respectively (...) (26 years ago, 4-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Part Numbering Crisis in LDraw
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(...) We were just pondering TLG's motivation for their part-numbering system. (...) I look at the minifig shortcuts more as helper files. They are meant to be copied and modified. (...) Only some of the parts. Not most. At least, that's where I am. (...) (26 years ago, 4-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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