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| | | (...) Good start, though it takes some exotic pieces. Seems like Lego should make a piece that joins liftarms end-to-end. I'm sure i'm not the only person that would use it. (16 years ago, 26-Feb-09, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | Re: Studless Truss Design? —Rafe Donahue
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| | | | | (...) My recollection is that Znap had parts that could do that... :-) Rafe (16 years ago, 26-Feb-09, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | Re: Studless Truss Design? —Mike Hatton
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| | | | (...) Tower Crane Boom is beam and pin only. (URL) uses multiple dimension connectors as it requires torsional stiffness. (URL) will need 'exotics' to connect dimensions. Thats how studless works best. The beams only have holes in one direction = (...) (16 years ago, 1-Mar-09, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | Re: Studless Truss Design? —Timothy P. Smith
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| | | | (...) Neither of those files seems to contain anything- but I understand what you are saying. I thought I was on to something with some Technic Triangles as right-angle connectors and pinned beams on diagonals. Worked fine, I guess- but needed (...) (16 years ago, 1-Mar-09, to lugnet.technic)
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| | | | | | Re: Studless Truss Design? —Stump Dunn
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| | | | | I put this together last year for the sydney train club. It uses pretty common parts. (URL) The big problem with studless building is the amount of clutching you get from the connector pins. In this bridge i jammed tiny bits of flex-tube in the (...) (16 years ago, 2-Mar-09, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Studless Truss Design? —Timothy P. Smith
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| | | | | | (...) That's gorgeous! Not exactly what I was looking for, but maybe inspiration for the next project. Maybe I'm thinking too small here. What's the span on that? Looks like about 4 meters. (16 years ago, 2-Mar-09, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Studless Truss Design? —Stump Dunn
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| | | | | | (...) The gap was 12 32x32 baseplates so a little over 3 meters. Steve (16 years ago, 3-Mar-09, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Studless Truss Design? —Mike Hatton
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| | | | (...) Perhaps I should have said they Are Lego Digital Designer Files.. They were hosted as LXF Files but if you get a zip file then either save and rename back to .lxf or open the zip and then open the lxfml file into LDD. you can get LDD from (...) (16 years ago, 6-Mar-09, to lugnet.technic)
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