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(...) The Type I motor (x564c01) supports both the old style power pickup brick with the plugs at the front (URL) as well as the new style power pickup brick with the plugs at the rear. (URL) The Type II motor (x581c01) supports only the new style (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) The actual motors (both 12V and 4.5V) were sold seperately as replacement packs, so users can screw open the case and replace the motor (either replacing a broken motor or replace a 4.5V motor with a 12V motor or vice versa). (URL) 12V (peeron (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Yes, including case is good. As Niels indicated, the 4 x 12 x 3 1/3 versions are openable with a screwdriver, allowing the actual motors to be replaced, so I think the term "Shortcut" is correct. The 4 x 12 x 4 version is glued, so I'll change (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'm confused. Are these parts generally openable - are the actual motors removeable (by the average user)? If they are removeable, then the (shortcut) names should include "case", since they aren't actually the motor. If the motors are not (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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<SNIP> Thanks Niels for taking the time to research this. I have updated the part names based on this information - to remove the voltage designation and correct the dimensions. Regarding your comment "The parts look good, I only miss metal (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I have checked my collection of train motors (which has reached an amount of 9), including all three mentioned variants. (Please note that I have changed the order of the quoted lists from Chris' message) (...) Got this one in blue, with a (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi We have a collection of 4.5V train motors on the LDraw Parts Tracker, and I'd like some help sorting out the variants of this part. On the PT right now we have x579c01 (by Michael Heidemann) - (URL) - this is the 4x12x4 version x581c01 (by (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inv)
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(...) I have been doing a little bit of work on the calculator. It is really overdue for a major overhaul. I was trying to impliment some other additions that have not worked out very well so far. (...) have you tried Ctrl+ins=copy, Shift+Ins=Paste, (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) ok. (...) Might need to job parts reviewers memories to this detail. (maybe this post will) (...) I have uploaded the update to the webpage; (URL) me know if that is any better, and if I caused any other bugs. I did not spend much time (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) (snip) (...) I *am* working on it, though slowly :-( The idea is that you can specify any number of part directories, e.g.: <MODELDIR> <LDRAWDIR>\P <LDRAWDIR>\Boxer <LDRAWDIR>\Boxer\B <LDRAWDIR>\Boxer\B\A <LDRAWDIR>\Boxer\BB <LDRAWDIR>\PARTS (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, I tried to pull you into the discussion at least twice, by mentioning your boxer subdirectories, but no luck. (URL) think some sort of consensus *was* reached and Lars was working on some reference code to handle it. But I have to admit, (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Just for the record, this is set out in the BFC standard, (URL). In the section "Parts Library Guidelines", it is stated: (...) Interesting side note: this section also says: (...) Which means we should be slapping 0 BFC NOCERTIFY tags on all (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That's not a bad idea, but the advantage of messing up the PARTS\ folder is that no extra adjustment or setup will be required. (...) "121 Messages in This Thread" - It's very hard for anyone who did not participate in the discussion to find (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Tore Eriksson wrote: [Lot of snippage] (...) hi tore, with the release of MLCad 3.10 there are now at least two progs who support custom folders. instead of messing up my PARTS\ and P\ folder I wish I could define something like (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) hi paul, could you on the fly have also a look at your calculator? I would appriciate very much if you could add the Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V and Ctrl+X shortkeys and fix the behavior of the fields when deleting all numbers, esp. with the backspace key. (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Ok, I will look into that. Thanks, Paul (20 years ago, 20-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I can do that. Now why didn't I know that CCW was the standard winding? Maybe the 2x4 didn't hit hard enough? ;) Paul (20 years ago, 20-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) One bug I've found so far: When I enter a value in the size (radius) box, the filename of the generated part does not use this value. When I use the up/down buttons, the filename is correct. For a large radius it is more convenient to enter (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Can you set the BFC so the default winding is CCW? That is the standard winding for primitives in the part library. Steve (20 years ago, 17-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Does anyone have any errors or things that need fixing for the next release of the primitive generator. So far the only thing I have planned to do is making the remove leading zeros (built in function) become an option in the options menu. This will (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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