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Subject: 
New Parts Drawings - Plates, Slope, Track Pieces
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lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.trains, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego
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lugnet.parts.custom
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Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:28:06 GMT
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I wish TLC would make these parts. Seeing earlier discussions I think I’m not alone! I’ve attempted 3rd angle projection drawings, showing top, side and underside, despite not having a drawing package. Drawing these parts in Paint is eyestrain city!

The numbers along the edges are measurements in millimetres, assuming 8mm to a stud. I drew the parts at 16 pixels per millimetre, to get plenty of detail.

3x3 33 degree inner corner slope brick: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/mbellis/New-Parts/Designed-Only/Slopes/33_deg_inner_corner_slope.bmp

1x2 hinge plate, sadly made as obsolete as its single-ended cousins by click-hinges: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/mbellis/New-Parts/Designed-Only/Plates/1x2_hinge_plate.bmp I originally wanted this piece for mudguards on technic vehicles, to remove the need to use pairs of single-ended hinges to form the curve over the wheel.

4x4 round plate with extra holes. The holes allow two or four round bricks to be supported by axles through the plate and also allow 4-wide cylinders to be made without technic peg holes in the sides, from the bricks you’d otherwise use: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/mbellis/New-Parts/Designed-Only/Plates/4x4_round_plate.bmp (For TLC’s benefit, the holes also save on raw plastic!)

For train fans, a few shorter track pieces, both curved and straight: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/mbellis/New-Parts/Designed-Only/Trains/new_track_pieces.bmp These would open the geometrical possibilities right up! Ideally they’d be supplied in packs of eight pieces each. I would certainly buy several packs of each, as long as they were the same colour as the rest of the track.

When I met Jake, he encouraged me to share these ideas for parts. After all, there’s no shortage of new parts coming from TLC every year, so why not let some of them be ones that will be more useful to AFOLs? If you have any drawings of your own prospective new parts, I’d encourage you to share them too. I propose these as parts for TLC to make. Please indicate which of them you would find useful.

Another time, I might draw a few of the parts that I’ve made from existing ones - the tried and tested selection!

PLMKWYT

Mark



Message has 7 Replies:
  Re: New Parts Drawings - Plates, Slope, Track Pieces
 
(...) Mark, You are most definitely not alone. :) I'm guessing one of the earlier discussions you might be referring to would be this one: (URL) I must admit, I love this topic. I think as much effort, if not more, should go into which parts the (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
  Re: New Parts Drawings - Plates, Slope, Track Pieces
 
(...) Very cool--I'll take those over new Bionicle parts any day. I can see the victorian porches now with that sloped brick... I wonder if you could add this to your part list, I was just thinking about this yesterday...here's what I had--I can (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
  Re: New Parts Drawings - Plates, Slope, Track Pieces
 
(...) (with random snippage) Your drawings are excellent! What detail! (...) All of your ideas (and that of the earlier, similar posts) are good. But, I'm not sure what this could be used for, although ANY 4x4 round plate would be welcomed, with or (...) (20 years ago, 4-Feb-05, to lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
  Re: New Parts Drawings - Plates, Slope, Track Pieces
 
(...) YIKES! (...) Well, OK, this is what I need for my students to model parts in AutoCAD! I tried this one because it looked the easiest; I'll do the others if there's interest. I don't know if anyone else has mocked these up already.. It took me (...) (20 years ago, 4-Feb-05, to lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
  Re: New Parts Drawings - Plates, Slope, Track Pieces
 
(...) If you're going to explore these kinds of things, I recommend you learn how to create LDraw parts (or what's easier, editing existing ones). It's really not that hard. Also in many cases you can get a pretty good approximatin by just (...) (20 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
  Re: New Parts Drawings - Plates, Slope, Track Pieces
 
The piece I really want is 2x5 or 1x5 (or x7) bricks and plates. When building a MOC that's an odd number of studs wide, you have to either make it asymmetrical or use x1 and x3 bricks which aren't good for structural support. (20 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
  Re: New Parts Drawings - Plates, Slope, Track Pieces
 
(...) Mark, You’re not alone. There are a lot of people with part wishes. Sorry, I don't have drawings but I also have a lot of wishes for TLC. I would like to have additional technic gears (with 10, 14, 18, 22, 28 and 32 teeth). I know I can (...) (20 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)

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