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Re: Off topic question Re: Clone DATs--any interest?
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Sat, 27 Nov 1999 17:56:16 GMT
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At 11:12 AM 11/27/1999 , Nephilim wrote:

> > I'm almost always against mixing LEGO parts and non-LEGO toys parts,
> > wherever that is, be it ldraw.org or anywhere.  It makes my skin crawl,
> > that's all.  But that's just my version of being a LEGO purist, and I
> > understand that it may be an extreme one.
> 
> Do people model parts that don't exist in the LEGO universe?
> i.e. Plates with studs on both top and bottom, or bricks otherwise
> shaped in ways that have no real-world analogs?
> 
> Just curious - I've glued plates together to get exactly
> that element before, and was curious how the LDRAW community
> feels about sticking to elements available to real-life modelers.

Why not invert a plate in LDraw and group them together, use it as a
submodel?  You don't need to model something like what you described.

But to answer the question, I don't know.  Some people modify pieces by
cutting them and such, would they use those in an LDraw model?

-Tim

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  Re: Off topic question Re: Clone DATs--any interest?
 
(...) yes i did it once.modified part 4864. cut it in half length wize, and used it as a indycar spoiler wing seen at < www.geocities.com/tb...talia2.gif > (27 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.cad.dev)

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(...) I'm not against hosting imitation brand parts or libraries on ldraw.org, since LDraw's file format doesn't have any sort of LEGO-brand requirement. I'd *personally* be somewhat bothered to see non-LEGO stuff there, but I also think that it (...) (27 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.cad.dev)

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