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| Hi, I've received a MISB <set:8865> and I noticed it didn't have a piece count on LUGNET's set reference. I thought about counting the # of pieces, and then I thought that (if it's not too much extra effort) I might as well get a complete inventory. (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jul-01, to lugnet.db.inv)
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| (...) Well, the way we format our inventories is a tab delimited text file, with the following columns: Quantity, Ldraw #, Bag number (if applicable), Color, Description, Notes. To do that efficiently, we use a couple of excel sheets that will do (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jul-01, to lugnet.db.inv)
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| You know, I've been doing these for months in plain text using Notepad. I wish I'd had enough brains to ask if there were an easier way. :) (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jul-01, to lugnet.db.inv)
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| (...) heh, we kept meaning to put up a howto page, but somehow, never got to it... (23 years ago, 30-Jul-01, to lugnet.db.inv)
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| (...) Yeah, I have been doing them manually, too. A ton of parts lookups in partsref, let me tell you... I like databases since I can work with the keyboard and forget the mouse so I create inventories as a database (.dbf) and then save again as (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jul-01, to lugnet.db.inv)
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| (...) For sets with a high percentage of normal-type pieces, I use ML-CAD - if there are instructions I'll build it, approximating position to save time, or for freestyle and the like, just a grid of pieces with multiples stacked. I have a horror of (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jul-01, to lugnet.db.inv)
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