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Re: Eidolon Engineering releases Spiffcraft to Public
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lugnet.space
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Mon, 18 Dec 2000 14:14:20 GMT
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> As any other LegoCAD-er will be able to tell you,
> the height of the Lego brick is different than the width
> of the Lego brick. Using the convention of 1 LDU (LDraw unit)
> equals 1/64 of an inch, the ubiquitous Lego 2x4 brick
> measures 40x80x24 LDU, and the 1x2 plate measures 20x40x8 LDU.
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> Thus, a monolith whose base is 20 x 80 LDU (i.e., a 1x4 brick)
> would need to be 180 LDU tall, which simply isn't possible.
I measured the monolith I made (back when I made it a
year ago), and it's within 1mm of the correct height for the
width and depth, since I used smooth plates at the top. I
considered that to be close enough. But yes, I took the
dimensions into account... I'm a geek too. :)
--
-Bones-
= http://www.necrobones.com/ = NecroBones Enterprises
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 | | Re: Eidolon Engineering releases Spiffcraft to Public
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| (...) Cute. :-) [pedantic] *However*, in order for it to be a *true* monolith, it must measure *precisely* 1x4x9. As any other LegoCAD-er will be able to tell you, the height of the Lego brick is different than the width of the Lego brick. Using the (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.space)
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