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| Hi guys, I'm close to producing my next batch of custom accessories and I need your opinions. Namely: what colour should I produce my beards in? To save me time from gathering opinions from different forums, I'm conducting a poll at the following (...) (22 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.build.minifigs, FTX)
| | | | | Really BIG RP
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| Alas, someone beat me to the BIG LEGO idea.. Behold - the totally cool (URL) RP moonbuggy> Stratasys showed at SIGGRAPH this year, handled by L-PRIZE's own (URL) Tim Courtney>. Made of ABS, with some removable parts and rotating wheels. FYI, the (...) (22 years ago, 28-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Liquid Plastics
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| (...) For parts where studs cause these problems, have you considered casting them upside-down? Then the plastic will flow into the stud compartments by gravity, and the bubbles will all float up to the rim of the part. Add a few flow channels to (...) (22 years ago, 27-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.custom)
| | | | | Re: My Big Phat RP Parts
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| (...) Ouch, how embarrassing! Well, Ben, take back everything I said! LOL. Actually, I WAS thinking of the right Ben.. When I saw the post I linked to above, I thought.. Ben+Trains+Cool=BBB. How was I to know there was another possible solution to (...) (22 years ago, 27-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
| | | | | Re: My Big Phat RP Parts
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| (...) Darrell, that's a different Ben. But I think LEGO ought to hire both of them. :-) (22 years ago, 27-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
| | | | | Re: My Big Phat RP Parts
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| (...) Thanks, Ben! Coming from you that means a lot! (...) I would also be interested in other people's results/trials. I suppose in a perfect world we could laser scan the parts, but... I don't know how far we in parts.custom want to venture into (...) (22 years ago, 27-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Liquid Plastics
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| (...) Hi - have you tried using an autoclave to reduce the bubbling? Darrell (22 years ago, 27-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.custom)
| | | | | Re: Liquid Plastics
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| (...) I use Smooth-on liquid plastics regularly with my other toy hobby, making custom action figures. The problem with using them to make LEGO-compatible parts is that these liquid resin plastics (like Alumilite, Micro-Mark, etc) are meant to be (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.custom)
| | | | | Re: Might this be very very cool?
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| (...) Yeah, that's the rub. Service bureaus have been around for a long time, and this isn't the first one that's been Internet based. There are places that will actually make injection molds for you over the net. It all comes down to how badly you (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
| | | | | Re: My Big Phat RP Parts
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| <snip> (...) Way cool! Thanks for sharing. On the topic of scale. What I've determined is the following: the LDU to mm conversion is an exact conversion However: A 1x1 brick is only 7.8mm x 7.8mm and the studs are located 8.0mm for one another (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Might this be very very cool?
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| (...) I can confirm it's pretty darn cool! Jason had a pointed top arch part he had designed a while ago that he shared images of with our club... it was one of the parts that got realised and shown at SIGGRAPH and at BrickLink. I thought it was (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Might this be very very cool?
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| (...) Doh! Darn my unfamiliarity with the group hierarchy! And I was so excited when the new groups hit the scene, too. Anyway, I need to get started on my dream list of faux-clone parts. I wonder if I can justify a bulk purchase sufficient to make (...) (22 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Might this be very very cool?
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| (...) I agree. One note, this may be suited for parts.custom rather than just parts. Jason, who responded elsewhere in the thread has a fair bit of experience with .stl files for parts now, I think... XFUT parts.custom (22 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Motivating CAD students to model LEGO (was prototyping)
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| (...) I am amazed that the architecture students would need any motivation to design with legos. Being an architect myself I cannot even fathom the thought! One suggestion would be to ask the students to try and model their previous projects using (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.cad, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.edu, FTX)
| | | | | Motivating CAD students to model LEGO (was prototyping)
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| (...) Well, my Semester starts in two weeks, so if you have any tips I'm all for hearing them! My biggest problem is motivating the Architecture students in my group. The Engineers don't really care what they draw (a widget is a widget is a widget). (...) (22 years ago, 18-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.cad, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.edu, FTX)
| | | | | Re: question about people who are doing rapid prototyping of parts...
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| (...) I apologise in advance for the fact that the following will sound like nitpicking... LUGNET is not moderated. It however, does have admins. Admins can do a number of things. However, they cannot move posts. More however-ingly, an admin can (...) (22 years ago, 17-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom)
| | | | | Re: question about people who are doing rapid prototyping of parts...
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| (...) Sorry, perhaps this thread is better off in parts.custom? Can a moderator do this more elegantly? Darrell (22 years ago, 17-Aug-04, to lugnet.parts.custom)
| | | | | Re: My Big Phat RP Parts
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| (...) Thanks, Greg, it means a lot to me that you like them. Now if we could only reach Tom Burger, that would be perfect - I tried to email him using the address on his last LUGNET post, but it bounced back to me. I guess I'll try his website email (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
| | | | | Re: My Big Phat RP Parts
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| In lugnet.cad, Darrell Urbien wrote: <snip> Well, consider me blown away. I never imagined I would see actual pictures of those models but there they were. I love the extra speakers in the scion too! (btw, when i made that model scion wasnt sold in (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX)
| | | | | New BBB parts
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| I'm very pleased to announce two new BBB train wheels available now A small spoked train wheel, similar in size to the existing 9v train wheel A large blind drive wheel that works with the existing BBB flanged Driver. With these new wheels, you can (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.announce, lugnet.parts.custom, FTX) !!
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