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Re: Studs
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-----Original message-----
From: Laurentino Martins <lau@mail.telepac.pt>
To: lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com>
Date: vrijdag 26 maart 1999 21:33
Subject: Studs
> I've been 'testing' the CyberMaster version of the Electric Touch Sensor
> in POV-Ray and noticed a few details:
> I don't know if the contacts of the studs where yellow in some time in
> the past, but nowadays they are silver. Maybe they could should be
> changed to color 383?
This is a case of old agreement within our group. At December 10th 1997
Remco Braak wrote:
> I believe that all electric contacts are yellow in the "official" LEGO
> instructions. I will check this for the pole reverser parts.
It turned out this was the case for all electric contact studs. We decided
to remain compatible and make the contact surfaces on the studs yellow.
> I would even suggest the redrawing of the electric studs to include the
> inside walls (what about redrawing all studs?). That way they could be
> painted silver and more accurately portrait a true transparent electric
> stud as in the case of the CyberMaster sensors. This is not only a
> detail because the shinny silver metal inside the stud is very visible
> to the eye in a real part.
For this single part, a new primitive might be a bit overdone. maybe you can
use the present electric stud and add the interior with cylinder, disk,
ring and/or rect references. Although I don't have the part, I could help
you with it. If you want me to help, please send me an image of how the
transparent stud should look like.
Greetings, M. Moolhuysen.
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| (...) I guess I'm not a a standard user. :-) To me the objective should be to accurately represent the real world, not to copy the LEGO instructions. (...) My point of view also disagrees here. Studs of real transparent parts are hollow, at least in (...) (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| Hi :-) I thought a bit about all this stud talk and reached a conclusion: is not worth the effort. I mean, nobody includes a touch sensor in it's model, in this case a transparent touch sensor, if does not intend to use it. And if you want to use (...) (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) And Moolhuysen answered: (...) Yes. Later we decided to use colour 494 (yellow-yellow mix) for electric contacts. This makes them yellow in instructions and allows L2P and L3P to colour them chrome in POV-Ray. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- (...) (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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