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Re: Is the LDraw parts database free?
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Date: 
Sat, 20 Nov 1999 12:18:04 GMT
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"John VanZwieten" <john_vanzwieten@email.msn.com> writes:

>  There absolutely is a creative process going on when modeling a part.
>  If you gave 10 people the challenge of modeling the TIE cockpit
>  piece, I guarantee you would get 10 different .dat files.  In any
>  complex part, you must make artistic judgement about where to skip
>  details, where and how to use primitives, where exactly two faces
>  intersect, etc.

I'll agree with you.  There is definitively a creative process going on
when modeling brick, possibly except for the very simplest ones.

>  Consider the wide variety of CAD files derived from a single brick:
>  Ldraw, Blockcad, Leocad, LEGO Creator, L3GO.

Yes, but these differences reflect the format, not the author, don't
they?

Fredrik



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  Re: Is the LDraw parts database free?
 
Fredrik Glöckner <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote in message news:m3u2mipne0.fsf@....uio.no... (...) There absolutely is a creative process going on when modeling a part. If you gave 10 people the challenge of modeling the TIE cockpit piece, I (...) (27 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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