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Re: BigBen Bricks! (Was: Parts editing made easy...?)
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Sat, 22 Jan 2005 01:28:42 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Orion Pobursky wrote:
program used for generating molds, see http://www.bigbenbricks.com/ldraw.html

While these produce nice, very accurate output, they have way more polygons than
necessary for Ldraw, and they would be impossible to maintain. Your utility
would need to somehow make sure the output is "Author Friendly".

Regards

ROSCO

Like, wow! Triple wow! Fisrt LCAD, and now LCAM!
I wonder how expesive that could be!
And I wonder if they are willing to make some custom size Classic style windows
and not only train wheels!
And I wish that LEGO would offer the same service, too!

Ahem...
http://www.ldraw.org/modules.php?set_albumName=album73&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php

-Orion

My eyes see the most beautiful things, but yet they don't understand.
I looked for some text that explained who/where/how this lovely sight is made
possible. Please let me have some more information!

/Tore



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  Re: BigBen Bricks! (Was: Parts editing made easy...?)
 
(...) Sorry Tore, I thought you read the article. Here's a brief summary: Mike Pique of Scripps Research Institute, Molecular Biology Department, did some LEGO bricks in the rapid prototype machines in his department. He plans on using them to teach (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
  Re: BigBen Bricks! (Was: Parts editing made easy...?)
 
(...) Tore, those are parts made on Stratasys and zCorp Rapid Prototyping machines. Rapid Prototyping is a way of using machines to take digital data and create models in an additive fashion, built up layer by layer. zCorp machines build the layers (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)

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  Re: BigBen Bricks! (Was: Parts editing made easy...?)
 
(...) Ahem... (URL) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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