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| | | wht the raised baseplate: for example the "walls" of the small 4 stud area go up 3 bricks and accross 1/2 a stud area. is this accurate enough or do you need to measute with a ruler? (26 years ago, 26-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: DAT voting page up —Roy Earls
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| | | | | jonathan wilson wrote in message ... (...) go (...) need (...) Its precise enough for me. Since we already know that LDraw itself is not accurate, but it is precise. Roy (26 years ago, 26-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: DAT voting page up —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | | | well... my raised baseplate is that accurate and is finished. (26 years ago, 26-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: DAT voting page up —John VanZwieten
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| | | | | (...) need (...) You should measure with a ruler or with lego parts (or for detailed parts people have resorted to calipers). With a plate and a brick, you can make pretty accurate measurements based on wall thickness (4 ldu), plate thickness (8 (...) (26 years ago, 26-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: DAT voting page up —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | | | | (...) i have fixed that and send the fix to terry. (...) i will fix this asap (...) i will not fix those (26 years ago, 26-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: DAT voting page up —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | | | | (...) i have fixed that and send the fix to terry. also i added a missing stud at the edge next to the ramp. (...) i will fix this asap (...) i will not fix those (26 years ago, 26-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: DAT voting page up —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Without the actual element in front of you, how can you be 100% sure that you've actually fixed the problem? (...) Have you asked yourself why you missed this in the first place? --Todd (26 years ago, 26-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: DAT voting page up —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) i have fixed it because i built kings mountain fortress on the part and all the studs are in place (...) it was a small oversight on my part. even if i had the part in front of me then i still could have missed the stud (26 years ago, 26-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: DAT voting page up —Roy Earls
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| | | | | | | | | | Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) You can't. Even with a part in hand you can't because how do you know every part thru the ages is the same. A case in point, I just did an inventory of all the parts I have and found two 45 1 x 2 slopes that (...) (26 years ago, 26-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: DAT voting page up —Bram Lambrecht
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| | | | | | | | (...) The curved edges are an essential part of the piece, especially when viewed in LDLite or POV-Ray. Not modeling them would be like leaving the curved edges off of the Windscreens - the edges are a highly recogizable feature of the part. --Bram (...) (26 years ago, 26-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: DAT voting page up —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | | | | | (...) the canyon raised baseplate does not have the rounded edges. (26 years ago, 26-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: DAT voting page up —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | (...) Then it's broken too. :) --Todd (26 years ago, 27-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: DAT voting page up —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | (...) True, but it's also a precedent. I'd rather have the bottom surface than curved edges. I'd consider a part with all surfaces more accurate than a part with closely-modeled upper surfaces, but the underside completely missing. Maybe I'm just (...) (26 years ago, 1-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: DAT voting page up —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | (...) I disagree with the first sentence (as I've said). I don't have this part, so I can't give any detailed feedback on the accuracy of the part-file; I must stick to generalities. An easy way to fix this part (enough to earn the coveted 'needs (...) (26 years ago, 26-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: DAT voting page up —Benoit Cerrina
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| | | | | | I've never authored lego parts for ldraw, but I did for pov-ray (at the time I was using Anton Raves library which is very good (a lot more detailed than ldraw, I haven't tried l3P so I don't know the quality of the output) but it was lacking some (...) (26 years ago, 28-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: DAT voting page up —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) Now, if they were going backwards, they'd really be moonwalking[1] Steve [1] A dance move made popular by Michael Jackson, where the dancer walks backward, but makes it look like they are walking forward. (26 years ago, 1-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: DAT voting page up —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) The best measurements are against other lego parts. The ruler is a fall-back for odd-sized bits. Steve (26 years ago, 26-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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