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| (...) lists (...) lot (...) Two other resources come to mind: Lutz Uhlmann's Parts Reference at: (URL) reference of technic parts at: (URL) of these cover lots of parts not done in LDraw, and the Technica pages even have images of parts not LDrawn. (...) (27 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)
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| Hello everybody, In an earlier post in this thread I stated that I would start to make a list containing the various names for each LEGO part. As many parts have different names in different auctions, programms and inventories it is sometimes hard (...) (27 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Those were just examples anyways. :) But I still Think "half-pyramid" is intuitive than "end cap". Jeff - "That is definitely *not* an ordinary spell!" (27 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)
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| (...) They weren't. (...) They were discussed openly -- several times. Probably the reason they were easy to miss was because they were discussed in RTL, where things get lost easily and it's harder to go dig stuff up later. --Todd (27 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)
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| In lugnet.admin.database, Todd Lehman writes: <snip> (...) hey, how come these thing were keep in the dark? thing like that should have been open to public long ago. Martin (27 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Steve -- Thanks for your feedback! I'm not sure this reply should be in db.inv, so I'm entering lugnet.general in my "followup-to" field. To answer your comment: My color column lined up just fine when I entered the message. Unfortunately, (...) (27 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.db.inv)
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| Robert, If you move the Part description to the end of the line, your Color column will line up better. Thanks for the inventories, and the detailed info! Steve (...) (27 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.db.inv)
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| (...) Slightly better might be: 1x2 45 degree slope, end cap 2x2 45 degree slope, peak junction The way I have put my inventories in is to have the size be in a separate cell from the rest of the description, as a result, an alpha sort would put (...) (27 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)
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| (...) I think that the word slope should be in there, along with the degrees of the slope. Those two slopes would then be "1x2 45 degree end cap slope" and "2x2 45 degree peak slope junction". Although, "half-pyramid" fits the "end cap" best, as (...) (27 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)
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| Simon Robinson wrote in message ... (...) and (...) Hey, those aren't "hollow space wheels", they're "podracer jet engines"... Frank (27 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)
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