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Re: LEGO brickpedia options
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lugnet.general, lugnet.storage
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lugnet.storage
Date: 
Sun, 11 Dec 2005 22:37:00 GMT
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On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Allan Bedford wrote:

> In lugnet.general, Ben Fleskes wrote:

> > I'd like a sticker set, that has a pictures of various parts so I can put the
> > stickers on the storage bins (currently I'm trying out an idea where I put
> > small baseplates on the fronts of my bins with double stick tape, and put a
> > sampling of the parts in that bin on the baseplate).
> 
> I've thought about taking some of my part images created for the book and simply
> printing them on label paper right using my inkjet printer.  Only thing stopping
> me right now is lack of time to putter around with it.  But I hear your desire
> for such labels.  It would be wild if someone actually created that for
> distribution.

It's been done. . .
http://onyx.malagraphixia.com/Storage/Lego_Storage.htm
but to personalize it for our own use we'd have to be able to edit
CorelDraw files, and maybe use LDraw tools.

Come to think of it, I thought that Bob Kojima's PartsCatalog
http://www.fial.com/bob/partscatalog/
could make labels, but I can't figure out how to make it do that.

XFUT .storage

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  Re: LEGO brickpedia options
 
(...) That's one of the most beautifully organized LEGO collections I've ever seen! And those drawer labels... wow. Much nicer than what I was thinking. AB (21 years ago, 11-Dec-05, to lugnet.storage)
  Re: LEGO brickpedia options
 
I tried using partscatalog to make labels, it can be done, but it is still all a bit manual for my liking. I think it would be good to think of a way to link up with a Peeron set/parts list, and build labels based upon those. I am not sure I have a (...) (21 years ago, 11-Dec-05, to lugnet.storage)

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  Re: LEGO brickpedia options
 
Hi Ben, (...) I hope you don't mind if I join in this conversation. As you can probably imagine, this is a topic to which I've given a lot of thought over the last couple of years. :) A quick bit of background on the Brickopedia that appears in my (...) (21 years ago, 11-Dec-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)

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