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Here are some notes on pieces I've looked at. I'll post more after I've looked at the others. I'm not claiming I've done a complete review of everything, just looked at some parts in different views, scanned the code for obvious anomolies. Steve (...) (26 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Steve Bliss wrote in message <36d42e85.12776501@l...et.com>... (...) You are correct. I designed it this way so people could see the pack when viewed from the front, but for actually placing it on a minifig it should be turned around, like the (...) (26 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I can understand that -- those thin-wall parts with decoration drive me crazy, because the decoration isn't visible in the default view. (...) I thought about Electric, and I'd be OK with that. (...) I followed the naming precedent from #2625, (...) (26 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) In real life the joins between the curved surfaces are smoothed. I approximated this by drawing the cylinders, but missing out the junction lines you refer to. It is a tricky part to model accurately and has no possible use (IMHO) except (...) (26 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) What about the Wheels category? That is the major function of the part, after all. (...) I think it's white in real life. I didn't check out this part yet, but does it use quads or lines for the 'text'? Quads will scale better and also convert (...) (26 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) i do not know that either. but making the false bottom would take me alomast as long as making the baseplate itself would. (...) some town sets, some divwers sets. it cmoes in town jr police station i think (...) no the part has only ever come (...) (26 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) it is white. the text uses quads. (26 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Steve Bliss wrote: <snip> (...) If we were using the correct brick code, this would be white. Since we're instead using the xxxxPyy code, it can be anything the modeller wants. IRL, the element has appeared (at least) thusly: 1x2 Brick: White, Green (...) (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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jonathan wilson wrote in message ... (...) battery (...) My thought on that would be yes if the part can be opened or exposed somehow in the model it is used in. I've actually been trying to come up with a program that with strip the unexposed or (...) (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, that all makes sense. What it needs is some optional lines, not hard-lines. No biggie. Like you said, this part goes inside the other (and as far as I know, won't attach to any other brick any other way). (...) I don't think this needs a (...) (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, duh. Why didn't I think of that? Steve (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Except the actual text-parts are done in negative-space. There aren't any drawing commands for them in the part-file. If you delete the 3004.dat reference, the text disappears (because the background shows through where text should be). Steve (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) sure. is this a serious problem? (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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