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Subject: 
R2D2's body (Was: Voting Open...)
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Date: 
Wed, 23 Aug 2000 01:37:48 GMT
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Steve Bliss wrote:

> 
> > > > 30361.dat - Cylinder 2 x 2 x 2 Robot Body
> > > > Ditto.  This one seems to be centered on the technic pin-holes, not very
> > > > useful for what is really a brick piece.
> > > [...]
> > > Should it also be rotated 90-degrees around Y?  Although it is more
> > > standard (comparing to Technic Bricks) to have the pin-holes face the
> > > front, this piece is still R2D2's body.
> > 
> > Hmmm.  I'd say that, since it is R2D2's body (though other applications will
> > undoubtably arise), and will probably get R2D2's pattern soonish, let's keep
> > the technic pin holes to the sides.  A precedence for this is the plate 2x2
> > with holes (2817), and I think it fits well; the primary use of the part
> > calls for the holes' axes to be parallel to the x-axis.
> 
> Pretty much what I was thinking.

Ditto. I suggest it should be rotated 90 degrees before officializatoin. (btw, I made a little mockup of R2's body with
orna... sorry, pattern)

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Tore Eriksson
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  Re: R2D2's body (Was: Voting Open...)
 
(...) Rotated? As in on the y-axis? That's pretty much what I was arguing against. Why should it be rotated? Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 23-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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(...) Right. As I understand, this brick appeared with several different colors of printing, but always on the same color brick. This approach (hard-coding the brick color, but allowing the pattern color to 'float') has been done in a few other (...) (26 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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