 | | if i modeled the monorail points would i have to model the inside?
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if i modeled the monorail points would i have to model the inside? i do not particularly want to as it would mean more work for me... (25 years ago, 9-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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can i use a povray library as a reference? i have one that has a part i want (the lower_trainnose to be exact) amd i planned to use the povray object as a reference to model the part in ldraw. (25 years ago, 9-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Newsgroup for this (was Re: The Bricktionary project)
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(...) Right. Identification and reference and browsing and all that. Massively cross-referenced within itself and to/from set inventories, MOC's, and the marketplace. So it's really a sub-database of the larger database. The "Brictionary" part is (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Newsgroup for this (was Re: The Bricktionary project)
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(...) Steve, I totally agree what is needed is a complete classification/taxonomy system so you can find a part. The naming component is useful and interesting but this project should be a parts database not just a name database. If the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
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(...) Personally I prefer Gary Istoc. ;-) [f-up set to lugnet.off-topic.fun] -Tom McD. when replying, spamcake roping has just been outlawed by the Montana Rodeo Commission. (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | New Palm Tree (was: Re: Another part variation)
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(...) Aren't they horrible? The new tree would be somewhat defensible if it held together. But it's more fragile than the old multi-part trees. One step backward, and two steps back. Steve (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The Bricktionary project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?)
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(...) Great. I'd love to contribute to the Lugnet Bricktionary in any way possible. Of course, I'd love to contribute to just about any effort to establish a public db for part identification and reference. Steve (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Newsgroup for this (was Re: The Bricktionary project)
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(...) Sounds good. Right place in the hierarchy. (...) And it's not actually part names, but a parts identification database, right? Having standard/prefered names is good, but it's the pictures (and maybe schematics) that actually identify the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
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Doesn't seem like they were hidden to me. Just go to "www.lugnet.com", then click on the "Set Inventory Repository" link under "Links & Resources" at the left side of the page, and then select the "800 Town, Train, and other sets inventoried by Tim (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)
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| | Newsgroup for this (was Re: The Bricktionary project)
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This seems like it is reaching critical mass (a good thing) and perhaps at this point a dedicated newsgroup should be created for this (i.e., efforts to standardize parts nomenclature). How does lugnet.db.brictionary sound? I wouldn't quite put it (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: The Bricktionary project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?)
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(...) Oops -- I think there has been a major misunderstanding; that's not what I meant at all. When I wrote: TSL> As they say in Canada, Minnesota, and Maine, "O-ya, it's been parta da TSL> plan since day one." :-) Lots of little prototypes and (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Another part variation
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(...) Plant those new hurricane proof palm trees! Just kiddin', just the other day I had the new tree in my hands for the first time. Yuck. Julie (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)
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| | Another part variation
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obPartTrivia: Anyone notice that there are[1] two different versions of the "Palm Tree Trunk Segment"? One is 40LDU[2] tall, the other is 44LDU tall. The difference is in the male connector on the bottom of the part. The shorter version appears to (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
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(...) I guess it looks fine with a "K"Gary Istok (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
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(...) And don't forget to include the folks in the Upper Penninsula of Michigan or Yoopers as they are called. "Dey talk like dat too". (...) I like it! Especially without a "K". John Matthews brought up an interesting point about not calling (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
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(...) Ok, I could go with: 1x2 45 degree slope, half pyramid Here's an attempt at the rest of the more or less normal slope parts: 1x2 45 degree slope 2x2 45 degree slope 3x2 45 degree slope (3) ... 1x2 45 degree slope, peak 2x2 45 degree slope, (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The Bricktionary project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?)
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[Followup-To set to lugnet.admin.database -- can we please corral this (important) discussion to one location? It's getting cross-posted to too many ng's] (...) I've got some LDraw-to-AucZILLA cross-reference information. Let me dig it out... (...) (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The Bricktionary project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?)
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(...) lists (...) lot (...) Two other resources come to mind: Lutz Uhlmann's Parts Reference at: (URL) reference of technic parts at: (URL) of these cover lots of parts not done in LDraw, and the Technica pages even have images of parts not LDrawn. (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)
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| | The Bricktionary project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?)
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Hello everybody, In an earlier post in this thread I stated that I would start to make a list containing the various names for each LEGO part. As many parts have different names in different auctions, programms and inventories it is sometimes hard (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
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(...) Those were just examples anyways. :) But I still Think "half-pyramid" is intuitive than "end cap". Jeff - "That is definitely *not* an ordinary spell!" (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)
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| | i have finally got some real lego to work from
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i have finally got some real lego to work from, thanks to my brothers friend. some of the parts i have include: 9v battery box monorail motor monorail wagon plate and bogie all the track from the unitron monorail the blacktron II large logo panel (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
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(...) They weren't. (...) They were discussed openly -- several times. Probably the reason they were easy to miss was because they were discussed in RTL, where things get lost easily and it's harder to go dig stuff up later. --Todd (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
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In lugnet.admin.database, Todd Lehman writes: <snip> (...) hey, how come these thing were keep in the dark? thing like that should have been open to public long ago. Martin (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Secret LUGNET areas, ldraw image databases, (was piece naming conventions)
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(...) If those pages were too easy to find, it would intimidate people. No one wants to get their feet wet at a site when they think they have to register first to do anything. Note that there are so many sites out there that make you actually (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | "Discoloration" on piece 30372(sw windshield)
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I was just looking through the instrucions for the x-wing fighter and saw that the "discoloration" on this piece was supposed to be a pattern. Go to (URL) (a scan from the instructions) to see what I mean. --Calvin Walton (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Secret LUGNET areas, ldraw image databases, (was piece naming conventions)
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(...) You might also note that, from the main page, finding these two is something of a challenge: (URL) - jsproat (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Secret LUGNET areas, ldraw image databases, (was piece naming conventions)
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(...) That's actually an obsolete URL, back from when some various options were being looked at for how to partition the .cad.dat ng hierarchy. Some of the data is left behind there, so the new code formats it the new way. I'll go wipe that (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)
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| | Secret LUGNET areas, ldraw image databases, (was piece naming conventions)
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Gee, thanks Todd -- I didn't even know about (URL) there is no link to it from the LUGNET home page! How many other secret LUGNET pages are there? Concerning the parts image database it looks like we agree, and a good start would be to combine the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)
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| | [ldraw.org] Thank You
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I would like to thank the following people on their contributions to the ldraw.org project: First and foremost, the biggest thanks goes to Jacob Sparre Andersen. Jacob donated the server space for ldraw.org and has played a HUGE role behind the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.general)
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| | [ldraw.org] Site Release!
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I am pleased to announce the ldraw.org website is now online and open to the public! Please visit and enjoy. :) (URL) no means is the site or the project complete. I have done all I can to present the site neat and tidy with placeholders where (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LDAO Suggestion Mark 3
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Interesting idea. I will add to my ToDo file. But I think I'll mull it over for awhile before acting on it. I also like John's suggestion. Steve (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
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(...) I hope not. That would limit the site to serving up images in predefined colors. Two bad results: the list of predefined colors could become outdated, and some people might have a reason for making up their own color values for parts. I'd (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Parts Database (Was: Idea: ... Lego piece naming convention?)
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(...) How about a 0 IMAGE meta-command, for those parts which are not-yet coded? That way, we could supply a URL for all parts, and the image could come from any source. Of course, it might make more sense to have that particular item as a column in (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
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(...) OK. I agree with you. The idea behind my site was to help people who are trying to locate hard-to-describe pieces, and need to visually browse through the catalog. (...) Again, I agree. I was just brainstorming ideas on how to reduce the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Parts Database (Was: Idea: ... Lego piece naming convention?)
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(...) Creating shell .DAT files is a simple way to record information for parts which haven't been created for LDraw. I wouldn't include these shell files in the L-CAD parts updates, but they would be useful for building a parts-base. (...) That (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts Database (Was: Idea: ... Lego piece naming convention?)
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(...) Definitely don't forget LDList! It's a great tool for finding parts. :) Steve (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: can parts authors try to finish what they have started?
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(...) So why should it be on the Parts Tracker? I made a *mockup* file. That's different from working on a file worth including in a parts update. (Those studs inside the inverted slope are killers) Steve (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
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(...) One neat thing that can be done if the pictures are served up by a cgi script is to store only a single image, but go in and modify the color before shipping it out. Of course you would need a standard set of color names, and a syntax for (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
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(...) Slightly better might be: 1x2 45 degree slope, end cap 2x2 45 degree slope, peak junction The way I have put my inventories in is to have the size be in a separate cell from the rest of the description, as a result, an alpha sort would put (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)
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