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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Niels Bugge wrote:
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> It has a similar girder structure to the other monorail tracks:
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> <http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1427973>
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> Only it's curved and very nasty.
Ooh. Well, that might be fun to model, in any case!
> That would be super, but I'm not sure how to make such a sketch: it's pretty
> complex even if you know lego geometry, and I'm not sure how to measure the
> angle between the two parts (gotta get that one rigth if you wish the curve
> to be rigth), and don't have a camera to take pictures of it :-(
Do you have a scanner? If you do, you could scan it and send me the digital file
- that would actually be better than an oblique photograph. I can then import
the image file into AutoCAD and measure it from there.. I'm assuming the parts
are flat on the sides and not compound curved - if they're helical all bets are
off, LOL. A full-scale xerox copy might work too, but eventually it needs to
become a digital image..
If you scan/copy the bottom of the straight part we could guesstimate what the
bottom of the curved ones look like (we could also adapt the .dat file that
already exists).
If you don't have a scanner the only thing left would be to send me the actual
part(s). My students can measure them and then return them, but you'd have to
lend them to me for about a week. If someone has these parts, wants to help, and
lives in the Southern California area, s/he could just drop them off and pick
them up.. Anyone?
It would also help me if you could show me how they go together (as you
mentioned it's critical some angles match up). While I've played with LEGO in
the context of my class, I'm by no means a trainhead.. I don't have a clue how
the monorail stuff works.
As I said before, we can always tweak the file if/when we find problems, but I
need the raw data to start.
Darrell Urbien
Drafting Technology
Orange Coast College
2701 Fairview Road
Costa Mesa, CA 92627
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