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Does anyone know what the Lego company's stance is on fan applications putting "LEGO" on the tops of studs? As far as I know, both L3P and LGEO allow you to include stud logos in the POV files they generate. Since I haven't heard anything about the (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Travis Cobbs" <tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com> wrote in message news:Gqzvr4.Jo9@lugnet.com... (...) To an extent, I do. When I was having the website logo redone right before Kidvention, I had a discussion about this with one of LEGO's lawyers. I had the (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) For trade dress reasons you may want it to be (one of) the authentic fonts. ++Lar (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Any idea where I would find the authentic font used for the logos on the studs? --Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I remember the discussion about that now from way back then. (...) Sounds like "MEGA" would right out! :-) (Just out of curiousity, do Mega Bloks have anything on the studs?) (...) Yep, seen it; it's highly impressive. (...) Yep, I think so. (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Travis Cobbs" <tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com> wrote in message news:Gr0vun.CpF@lugnet.com... (...) safe (...) I'm ashamed to say I actually know the answer to this question ;-) But, MB doesn't have printing on the studs. They imprint their logo (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) There's some variance on that. Frequently the MegaBloks logo appears on the body of the brick, such as between the four studs of a 2x2 brick, but some newer molds place the MegaBloks logo between the 4 studs at each of the four corners of a (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Come on over to the Blok Side, Tim! We've been expecting you... 8^) Dave! (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Now that I think of it, this kind of bugs me. If I could come up with a low-maintenance way to put "MegaBloks" on every clone.dat brick I would happily do so. How can LEGO imply ownership of a virtual brick that could, frankly, be any of a (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message news:Gr0yDp.KIu@lugnet.com... (...) Mega (...) MB (...) studs (...) Uhh, I think I'll take a pass. Thanks for the invite though. ;-) FUT -> o-t.fun -Tim (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) No way! I think it's absolutly necessary that the word LEGO be put on each and every one of those K'Nex pieces that were modelled a few months ago! 8?D I think if you were modelling an element available from a clone manufacturer only, you'd be (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message news:Gr12tJ.9A0@lugnet.com... (...) a (...) style (...) she (...) could, (...) Good point. I suppose I would explain it this way: LDraw.org sticks LEGO on the studs because we are the ones loyal to (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Tim Courtney writes: **snip of good answers to all of my questions** (...) Tim, you stinker! How can I have my "LCad Apocrypha" website if there's no LCAD anymore!?! I certainly shouldn't use "LDraw Apocrypha" since that implies (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message news:Gr2HCq.9BC@lugnet.com... (...) You know we did it just to upset your site ;-) Actually, its someting Steve and I chatted about for some time. I started considering this, and discussed it with (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Figures--I spent all last week debunking conspiracy myths, and it turns out I'm the victim of one! I'll be watching you... Out of curiosity, was it *ever* "officially" called LCad? Dave! (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message news:Gr2Kr7.IGE@lugnet.com... (...) Well, yes. The loose-knit community which is the 'governing body' of the parts updates and libraries was called LCAD, or at least, the parts updates themselves (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) with LDraw". It could like to the page made by Dave! And, it could link to the KDraw pages (er, those K-nex files were put on the web somewhere, weren't they?). This would allow LDraw.org to remain within the spirit of being LEGO-focused, (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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"Steve Bliss" <partsref@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:hmq26uc4vm7ggq4...4ax.com... (...) Sounds like a good idea. It can become a section of the Links page. One thing I have to do is put back the linking images (make new ones first), and get Bram (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Well, I have to say that this is much more gracious than I dared hope! My site is somewhere between "god-awful" and "really lame," but I hope to embellish it somewhat whenever I get off my posterior. Let me know if anything on the site as it (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Steve Bliss (...) Cool! And thanks Tim for being willing to do that. In case anyone is wondering, here's a link to the K'nex parts library page: (URL) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Another reason why; The LDraw library of parts is specifically modelling the copyrighted/trademar...d/patented inventory of Lego brand building toys. We know it, they know it. And they have graciously allowed us to do so. Even supported our (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, it should be noted that any programs that add a LEGO logo to the tops of studs are going to add the same logo to the studs on clone bricks unless the clones use their own (separate) stud primitives. There's not currently any way (that I (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I have no real intent of including any logo on the clone.dat bricks for a number of reasons; nearly every brand has a 2x4 brick, so I'd need to make a different file for each brand's 2x4 brick I wanted to model! Better to sidestep the whole (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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