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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 (19 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 (...) (19 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 (...) (19 years ago, 11-Dec-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)

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