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In lugnet.inv, Mike Crowley wrote: (snip) (...) You know, reading your post brought up the idea of pre-emptive MOCs. and UCS Duplo I would seriously consider buying. For my niece, of course! Joe Meno .space paparazzi! (20 years ago, 2-Apr-05, to lugnet.inv, FTX)
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(...) Holy kickboxing babies, Batman, that’s some great news! If Peeron and LEGO’s parts inventory databases are intimately linked, and parts lists could be floating around in there for sets on file and awaiting production, might I be able to do an (...) (20 years ago, 2-Apr-05, to lugnet.inv, FTX)
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Ha ha. Funny. (20 years ago, 1-Apr-05, to lugnet.inv)
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(...) I was sitting there, nodding my head in agreement, then I realised that YOUR post was posted today too... so should I trust it? I can't decide. XFUT lugnet.off-topic.fun (20 years ago, 1-Apr-05, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.fun, lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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(...) I've come not to trust anything posted on LUGNET on April 1, which is today. ;-) -- Nathan Wells (20 years ago, 1-Apr-05, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.fun, FTX)
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Great news, it it holds on days that aren't April 1, too. (20 years ago, 1-Apr-05, to lugnet.inv)
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(...) WOOOOO!!! Exciting news! Thank you! Made my day! :-D Legoswami (20 years ago, 1-Apr-05, to lugnet.inv)
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Hmm...interestin'. Why do I get the feelin' even Lego doesn't have full and comprehensive lists of all parts back to the 80's. :p -Stefan- (20 years ago, 1-Apr-05, to lugnet.inv)
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(...) As much as I want this to be true, I'm leary about getting to excited, with the date. In particular this line here "But even better, this means that inventories for NEW sets will be availalbe even *BEFORE* the sets are released!" Seems too (...) (20 years ago, 1-Apr-05, to lugnet.inv, FTX)
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For the past few months, we've been working with LEGO on a very special project. I'm happy to announce today, that it's ready to go live. Very soon, the Peeron database will be linked directly to LEGO's internal inventory database. This means that (...) (20 years ago, 1-Apr-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.announce.peeron, lugnet.inv) !!
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(...) Dave, Thanks for the inventory! Eric (20 years ago, 31-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.inv)
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Hi all, I have recently recieved a Lego Set 166 'Vehicle Extra Parts Kit' that I won on ebay. (URL) have posted an inventory at (URL) is some interesting items I found: 1. This set contains a gray 4x8 plate with the old waffle style bottom 2. The (...) (20 years ago, 31-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.inv)
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(...) If you go into BrickLink's "Search", then "Find Stores", you can upload an XML file of all the parts you want, and it will find the stores which have all (or most) of those parts. There's a help file on how to build the XML file (URL) here>. (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.market.brickshops, FTX)
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(...) Yes. the sheer number of combinations can quickly get ridiculous and it gets hard to evaluate which is "best." I cheated by making a few asumptions. I'll share them when I dig up the code, I don't remember the details off hand. -JSM (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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(...) SNIP (...) Yeah I had to have a look up table for that. It was annoying but not insurmountable : ) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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(...) The problem with this (and with Briktrak) is that there are a few Bricklink parts whose numbers are not the same as the LDraw parts. There was an attempt a while back to normalize the numbering system across the main part cataloging sites but (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jan-05, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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(...) I beleive that this is the hardest part of the automated 'from-CAD-to-shop' process. There are so many variables, obviously element avaialability but also price and geographical location. Also when using the By Shop sorting feature in (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jan-05, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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There is of course the option on Bricklink of uploading an XML file into your wanted list. If you could make a program that reformats an MLCad parts list into the required XML format you would be halfway there. I have tested this function with a (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jan-05, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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---snip--- There are two soultions that I know of. 1) Create a .LDR file with the parts you want to buy 2) Download and install (URL) 3) Upload your .LDR file to briktrak and it will link to bricklink and provide you a list of stores that have your (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jan-05, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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I wrote a utility, for my own use, about two years ago that takes a .dat file and attempts to find "best" way to buy the parts via BrickLink. I'd planned to produce custom sets and source the parts for them this way. It was working well when last I (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jan-05, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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