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Re: All Terrain Crane
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lugnet.technic
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Mon, 8 Jul 2002 13:08:36 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Jennifer Clark writes:
> Thanks for the comments Dennis! I think using a leadscrew is a good way to
> luff large booms, unless someone comes along with some mini hydraulics, but
> even at that, having hydraulic oil leak all over your living room carpet is
> probably not the ideal thing either.
Do it in the bedroom 8?) What about water?
> I'm not sure what John Barnes plans to
> do with the leadscrews... any comments John?
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> > Left me only one question: I didn't manage to load the 20x30 wheels into • my
> > CAD-program. I use Leocad. I also have MLCad but I don't know how to use
> it.
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> I can't remember exactly what I did with those wheels but I think there was
> some degree of faffing about involved. I think I dumped them in the LDRAW
> parts directory and MLCAD just picked them up from there, but I may be
> wrong. It was Damien Duquennoy who made them and I think he may be on this
> group, so maybe this is the right place to find out the proper way to do so.
http://www.ldraw.org/library/official/parts/124.dat
http://www.ldraw.org/library/official/parts/6581.dat
Save 'em to your ldraw parts dir. Dunno how to convert 'em to use with
leocad though...
ROSCO
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| Once they are in your ldraw parts dir, you just have to import them in LeoCad (File > Piece library manager > File > import piece). Then quit LeoCad and restart it to rebuild part list. Your parts should be ready to use ! Note that Damien's parts (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.technic)
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| Thanks for the comments Dennis! I think using a leadscrew is a good way to luff large booms, unless someone comes along with some mini hydraulics, but even at that, having hydraulic oil leak all over your living room carpet is probably not the ideal (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jul-02, to lugnet.technic)
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