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In lugnet.cad, Eric Sophie wrote:
> In reality, this is a start.
>
> Imagine if you will, a giant facility filled with millions of parts. A full
> pallet of Lego parts in all system sizes and shapes, with machines to divert,
> sort pack feed label and collect the 40 left monkey arms Pharmacy style I need
> to complete that ship that guy made! Completely automated, full pallet, Pick and
> pack facilty, Parts Farming Madness!
Yes, this is probably the kind of system that Jake prompted us to imagine when
he asked us to ponder where this system might be 6-10 years down the road
(provided it is sucessful). As you brilliantly put it, in the "World of next
Thursday." I am concerned that this first step, while incredibly neat, might
not draw the huge amounts of people into the system that are needed to get to
"step two."
Personally, I have never understoodthe current parts packing system and I see it
as a roadblock to getting to "step two." I'd like to see baggies of parts that
have about 10 of the identical element restricted to the most common colors as
the basis of the parts pallettes we can work with in LDD. This would vastly
reduce the cost of ordering a model that used, say, 15 1x4x3 brown window
frames. To me, it would also seem easier than diverting baggies from production
sets that might contain 3 brown 1x4x3 windows along with 23 different and
miscellaneously colored parts. Are they overthinking how to implement this
scheme? Or would it be too much of a risk to dedicate these 10-pack parts packs
to the LDD/Factory concept?
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Thomas Main
thomasmain@myrealbox.com
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| In lugnet.cad, Thomas Main wrote: snip (...) I agree. (...) One other possibility would be allowing us to use existing bulk packs in our models. If I am building a house with a black roof, then I could upload a black roof tiles pack and use that. (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Thomas, You must have been reading my mind.... I was thinking about building a Lego Factory Skyscraper with 8 black 1x4x3 windows on each floor, and making it 10 stories tall. Well based on the fact that only 6 come in a baggie, I can only (...) (19 years ago, 1-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) -snip- (...) Hmmm, something is dawning on me. I mean I think I see the same principle our MOCs are derived from in real life. When we see someone's My Own Creation, we look and say wow, look that spaceship has 40 monkey left arms! Oh wow, (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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