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Subject: 
Re: bulk ordering is here!
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lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad
Date: 
Wed, 14 Jun 2000 14:02:24 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Larry Pieniazek writes:
What I actually wanted to comment on was the images. These are neat. I did a
little looking (especially at the spruce and at the transparent thinwall) and • I
gotta say that I really like them. Can Brad or anyone from TLC tell us where
they came from? Check out the shading/highlighting on the lower part of the
thinwall.

I'm speculating but these don't look like they were hand drawn, rather they
look like program output

Any chance of some sort of future bridge between official TLG data and our
hobbist stuff?

I've wanted to ask them this for over two years.  It is obvious that the
quality of the instructions on brickshelf would be greatly improved if
the were directly output from their cad system instead of scanned.
It would also save quite a bit of time and effort (at least for recent ones).

They probably have some business reasons for not doing that, and we should
respect that.  However, if they did want to use that method,
I would love to help them do it.

KL



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  Re: bulk ordering is here!
 
(...) Yes, in an ideal world, I'd like to see all the instructions available for download in a single printable (PDF?) document. However, I expect TLG would want to host that themselves (if at all). If they did, a high quality set data base which, (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad)

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  Re: bulk ordering is here!
 
(...) Well, everyone else has taken care of saying how neat this is, just add one more tick mark to the chorus. Hopefully if we start to demonstrate that we will buy lots and lots there may be some future improvement on pricing. (...) What I (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad)

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