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In lugnet.trains, Jordan Schwarz wrote: hours (...) Looks like more elements are available in online P@B as well. Jonathan (17 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) The website is back up, and LDD 2.0 is now available! Cheers! (URL) -Jordan (17 years ago, 21-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) Now there's also the following note: The LEGO Factory website will have new and exciting Hobby Train content that includes detailed information on the Hobby Train Box, 30 free online building instructions, train designer interviews and more (...) (17 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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Text on the site: The LEGO Factory website is down for maintenance The website will back online Wednesday at approximately 6:00 PM CET. Joehoe! Finally version 2 of the software!!! Jeroen (17 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) This is good news. I've emailed LEGO about this problem myself. Simply being able to filter by 'Trains' and 'Cool Creations' together would be a big help, but it seems they couldn't achieve that. It's a shame it takes such a major overhaul for (...) (17 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) Wow, if AFOL's continue to provide stuff like this site, LEGO will not have to do any work. Get AFOL's to design them, get AFOL's to help people find them, get help from AFOL's to market them--just provide the parts. And even that is now (...) (17 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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In lugnet.trains, Jordan Schwarz wrote: SNIP (...) SNIP (...) Hi Jordan, I like this idea. I'd recommend adding Chris Masi's work. He seems to have two usernames, "masithebuilder" and "acjmasi", not sure which he'd prefer you use. I've build-tested (...) (17 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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"Ross Crawford" <ross.{mylastname}@gmail.com> wrote in message news:JF4Do6.9FG@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) I believe it will. I expect things to change quite a bit as LDD 2.0 and an updated LEGOFactory.com roll out. It may not happen (...) (17 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) Nice site Jordan. There is also the (URL) LEGO factory hobby trains> page, which currently features some great models by James Mathis. I'm not sure if that will be expanded to include models by other AFOLs. ROSCO (17 years ago, 18-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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As we near the release of LDD 2.0, I offer the following tale... Two weeks ago, I was visiting the Tyson's Corner LEGO Store. Although the store still sells 9V track and motors, they no longer carry 9V train sets, which number only a few these days (...) (17 years ago, 18-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX) !
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I present my first venture into the world of 10-wide LEGO Factory train creations, a GP-38 locomotive in CSX-like colors. (URL) > A while back, there was some discussion about UCS train models, so I created this as a response. It can be used as a (...) (17 years ago, 27-Feb-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX) !
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Seems that James Mathis and I were thinking along similar lines this past week. I, too, designed some streamliner cars of my own using the LEGO Factory parts palette, although I modeled mine on the "Metroliner" paint scheme rather than for the Super (...) (17 years ago, 29-Jan-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX) !
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| | Re: Creating Models and Optimizing instructions using LDD and LDraw
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(...) [...] (...) [...] (...) Adding to Paul's comment about sub assemblies... when building using LDD, I have noticed that it is difficult to build SNOT assemblies, especially when some of the bricks aren't directly attached to the SNOT brick. I (...) (18 years ago, 24-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad.ldd, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi Eric, I think this an important topic and I'm glad you brought it up. When I did my (URL) Purina boxcar> I designed it with LDraw/MLCAD and then converted to LDD as a last step. (Note, I also needed to tweak the ldraw.xml file to prevent a (...) (18 years ago, 23-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad.ldd, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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I have added an article over in the LDD Database area of Save 9v Trains of my thoughts about using LDraw (MLCad) to optimize instructions for LDD. (URL) I used this caboose as my test subject. (URL) This is a model that I designed and ordered via (...) (18 years ago, 23-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad.ldd, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Hello, Ville, Thank you very much for buying these three train models. (...) You have examined them more closely than I did to find faults with the design. To the Pullman Car, I made no changes. To the DB103 I made the suggested changes: - floor (...) (18 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) Hi Ville, Wow, thanks for sharing all of that great feedback on these Factory sets. That's a lot of useful information for anyone considering these sets. You even provided pictures of the mods you made! When I suggested you provide some (...) (18 years ago, 5-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) Hey, Sorry that it took this long to answer. Here is my personal opinion about Factory concept and three James Mathis’ sets I bought from Lego Factory. These comments are free to use and fill. First about Factory Set Concept ---...--- I think (...) (18 years ago, 4-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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Over the weekend, I designed a LEGO train station somewhat evocative of grand European stations using LEGO Digital Designer. The station has a rounded glass canopy and is large enough for a fairly tall (~12 bricks high) train to clear. The interior (...) (18 years ago, 4-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX) !
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| | Re: Lego factory sets / building instructions
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Paul S. D'Urbano wrote: [...] (...) [...] (...) Paul, It would be great if the models were built and commented on. I know the few models that I submitted are buildable, but that kid of defeats the real purpose of Factory... I mean really, if I (...) (18 years ago, 29-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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