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Re: part: brick 1 x 2 with arm 2F
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Tue, 13 Apr 1999 09:01:15 GMT
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On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 03:21:40 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) wrote:

> 
> Jonathan wilson:
> > Todd Lehman:
> > > Is this an attempt to model part #30014?  If so, it is incorrect in at
> > > least three very obvious ways -- (a) the vertical placement of ARM1.DAT,
> > > (b) the use of ARM1.DAT in the first place, and (c) the use of 3004.DAT,
> > > where a new element should have been designed to codify the 2 LDU
> > > extrusion on the side of the brick.
> > > [...]
> > 
> > what do you mean use of arm1.dat?
> 
> I mean that you should not have referenced ARM1.DAT in a file purporting to
> represent part #30014.  Granted, ARM1.DAT is the least incorrect of all
> subparts that you could have referenced, but it is still incorrect.
> 
> 
> > should i have used arm2.dat?
> 
> No.  Neither ARM1.DAT nor ARM2.DAT are correct for use in part #30014.
> 
> Again, you MUST have a copy of a *REAL* LEGO element in your hands instead
> of trying to guess what it looks like.
> 
> You WILL NOT EVER, Jonathan, *EVER* be able to model elements correctly
> until you resign yourself to doing this.  Do not even try.
> 
> Take heed of what the seasoned parts designer experts are telling you, lest
> in the course of ignoring such advice you become labeled the village idiot.
> 
> I know you can create good parts.  You just have to be willing to listen to
> what other people are saying.  Right now, you are off in your own world.
> 
> --Todd

Agreed.  Ditto.  What Todd said.  I second that.  In spades.
Jonathan,  you have been reading these types of comments for quite a while now.
Has _any_ of it sunk in?

-- Terry K --



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  Re: part: brick 1 x 2 with arm 2F
 
i am listening to the group. i will do everything i can to accually get some lego to work from. at the monent i have a bag of lego (not mine) that i am looking at, but all the parts that guy had that were not in ldraw are too hard IMHO to model e.g. (...) (27 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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Jonathan wilson: (...) I mean that you should not have referenced ARM1.DAT in a file purporting to represent part #30014. Granted, ARM1.DAT is the least incorrect of all subparts that you could have referenced, but it is still incorrect. (...) No. (...) (27 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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