A thread for OMR posts of Town, Trains and Paradisa sets released in 1995.

The year's topics:
* Main Line: Launch Command/Space Port, Race, Police/Coast Guard, Vehicles, Fire
* Second use of the 9V Micro Motor outside Technic/Dacta
* First money bill tiles and dolphins
* Introduction of the "Tool Wheel" parts and 1x1x1 Corner Panels
* Lots of new parts for the Space Shuttle

6516 Moon Walker (US) / Moon Buggy (UK) - 28 pcs. (box) / 29 pcs. (instructions)
Smallest Main Line Set and introduction of the chrome helmet visor, that got used until 2001. Bears a little resemblance to 886 Space Buggy from 1979...


  6516 Moon Walker.mpd (Size: 3.71 KB / Downloads: 111)
   

EDIT: Fixed a display error with the front wheel, rotated headlight sub-assembly and wheels into default position.

OMR compliant
Missing items: none

Only to prove my point, I have in these files reduced the number of decimals, 3, 2 and 1, and then created rect primitives.
The number of decimals, or the creation of rect primitives, is not the reason for thin gaps.

I challenge anyone to find a gap in them.

The only thing that happens is that there might be a need for some condlines. 
But even they are possible to eliminate as shown in u9563s01- flat no cond.dat.

Attached Files

  u9563s01.dat (Size: 7.23 KB / Downloads: 4)
  u9563s01 - flat no cond.dat (Size: 5.4 KB / Downloads: 3)
  u9563s01 - 1 decimal.dat (Size: 4.45 KB / Downloads: 5)
  u9563s01 - 2 decimal.dat (Size: 4.24 KB / Downloads: 2)
  u9563s01 - 3 decimal.dat (Size: 4.6 KB / Downloads: 2)

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Hello all,

I would like to request 7221 & 7276 from the Shire sets.

https://rebrickable.com/parts/7221/minif...t-long/19/
https://rebrickable.com/parts/7276/windo...-hole/288/

Thank you!

Please add 75537

Thanks

I'd like to use this for an upcoming Ideas submission. Thanks!

Attached Files

  6958.png (Size: 170.78 KB / Downloads: 48)

Please vote on the FABRIC updates to the !COLOUR specification as presented in draft form here.

hola


how mak big ring match bi big ring?????????????

   

The Duplo door hinge socket ddoorhinge.dat primitive works with doors and windows having a circular bar, but not with those having a half-square bar.

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  Picture2.png (Size: 2.91 KB / Downloads: 67)

Upon examination of many parts with door hinges, older and newer, used and unused, I found that the curvature causing the clipping effect is limited to the upper fourth of the shape and that there is a dent roughly at half the height, both contributing to the slightly inward-leaning visual effect apparent when viewing from a distance. I propose that the curvature is modified.

Additionally, the outside slope is straight rather than bent and the height of the base is closer to a third of the shape height than a sixth. I propose that the base is increased to 1.8 LDU and that the outside slope is made straight.

Upon examining a large number of doors and windows, I observed that the bar part is 0.5 (up to 0.60) LDU thinner than previously modeled. All physical parts also have an approximately 0.5 LDU rounding of the corners, which is typically not modeled. However, I do not propose a change to the commonplace 5 LDU half-square geometry.

Here is the proposed new shape for the hinge socket.

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The image shows the ddoorhinge.dat primitive in red (back), the truncated door hinge 2207s02.dat in green (middle) and the proposed new shape in orange (front). The green version has vertical insides, i.e. no curvature for keeping the bar part of the window in place.

  ddoorhingesocket.dat (Size: 517 bytes / Downloads: 0)

  ddoorhingesockethalf.dat (Size: 1.92 KB / Downloads: 0)
The reworked ddoorhingesocket.dat would then still be clashing a little, but as Magnus points out, the 0.5 LDU clash is next to nothing. This way we do not need to touch any of the existing doors.

Based on 2207s02.dat and 51695s02.dat, I propose the below solution for the truncated version of the hinge.

  Picture5.png (Size: 2.18 KB / Downloads: 30)

  dtruncateddoorhingesocket.dat (Size: 588 bytes / Downloads: 0)

Perhaps a hinge primitive for future doors as well?

  ddoorhinge2.dat (Size: 1.08 KB / Downloads: 0)

Many subfiles could be much more reusable as modular building blocks if they contained some way of fixing the position of some elements. For example the interior/underside of many bricks. 76371s02.dat is a good example. If the hem was removed and the 1 LDU offset of the inside notches could be retained from scaling, this part could be reused for any box height, including the 0.25 scaling factor needed for many parts. What about a command that would fix the position of one end of an element?

0 FREEZE -y end relative to -y boundary
1 16 20 49.5 16 1.5 0 0 0 0 45.5 0 -4 0 box4-1.dat

The above code would result in that the 1 LDU offset (counted from the -y direction) would be retained in all scaled versions of the modular subpart.

Another option would be to define variables and then scale the variables rather than the file.