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Re: 'Virtual' Preservation Project for CKS
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lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.cad.dev
Date: 
Sun, 16 Oct 2005 10:57:39 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Ryan Farrington wrote:
Alex,

I think that's a great idea! :)  A couple of years ago I was thinking that
any construction toy could be modeled in L-Cad, and I was quite excited to
release the most basic parts of K'nex in the LDraw file format.

http://www.ncgraphicarts.com/ryan/construction.htm

As you can see on that page, I had hopes to complete other building sets
too, but they never got finished. This vision continued when I created this
completely unofficial website for a college web design project, a kind of
LDraw.org for many construction toys: VirtualConstruction.

http://home.southernct.edu/~farringtonr1/

I'd love to see more construction kits put into the LDraw format!


--Ryan


Looks like my idea is already happening :-)

Suggestions:
* Create a WikiCity?
* AnchorStones - AnkerCad? See: http://web.telia.com/~u16122508/ankercad.htm
* Systems list? I can think of several systems not mentioned by yourself.
*Major Systems (not yet mentioned):
+ Mecanno
+ Rokenbok
+ Fisher Technik
+ Geo-Mag
etc..

* As it's L-CAD It means L3P/LPub etc can be used to produce model instructions

OF course there are a lot of web-sites on various constructional toys, Hence
my suggestion that you start a Wiki?

Alex



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: 'Virtual' Preservation Project for CKS
 
(...) Although its not quite what you sound like you want, we already have a wikified LDraw section over on BrickWiki ((URL)). You can find the category at (URL) although it's fairly empty at the moment. There is even a section on the wiki for clone (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
  Re: 'Virtual' Preservation Project for CKS
 
(...) Unfortunately not with AnkerCAD :-( The parts in BlockCAD and AnkerCAD are not in LDRAW format, but one of my own. BlockCAD can export a model in LDRAW format, as it's just a question of generating the right LDRAW parts (in the right position (...) (19 years ago, 16-Oct-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.cad.dev)

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  Re: 'Virtual' Preservation Project for CKS
 
Alex, I think that's a great idea! :) A couple of years ago I was thinking that any construction toy could be modeled in L-Cad, and I was quite excited to release the most basic parts of K'nex in the LDraw file format. (URL) you can see on that (...) (19 years ago, 15-Oct-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.cad.dev)

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