Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | SylvainLS  | | Posted: | Nov 26, 2019 13:40 | | Subject: | Re: Find sets based on pieces | | Viewed: | 49 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, randyf writes:
| | In Suggestions, bwbwings writes:
| | There is a feature I would love to see in Bricklink, it goes like this:
I have x number of pieces that belong to a set but I do not know what the set
is. I would love to specify which pieces I have and then view all the sets that
all the pieces belong to.
I do know that I can look up a single piece but it gets difficult cross referencing
5 or 6 pieces to find the common set.
Please let me know if you think this would be a beneficial feature or if you
would like more info.
Thanks 
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rebrickable.com
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And https://www.bricklink.com/catalogIn.asp?viewMulti=Y
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Nov 23, 2019 17:33 | | Subject: | Re: 4150 not dead? | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
| In Catalog, maxx3001 writes:
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| | I wonder though: what happens when the variants aren’t functionnally equivalent?
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LEGO doesn’t really care, a brick is a brick is a brick.
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Well, apparently, from the Eurobricks’ topic Hygrotus linked to, it depends whether
you get a friendly person from LEGO customer services, especially if you’re one
of the first to encounter the issue.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Nov 23, 2019 17:27 | | Subject: | Re: 4150 not dead? | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
| In Catalog, Hygrotus writes:
Oh, very interesting indeed. Thank you.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Nov 23, 2019 13:07 | | Subject: | Re: 4150 not dead? | | Viewed: | 60 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
| In Catalog, maxx3001 writes:
| | In Catalog, Teup writes:
| | In Catalog, Hygrotus writes:
| | In Catalog, Teup writes:
| | That's funny. I just encountered 4 of these:
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LEGO just uses everything they have, maybe they dug up an old container with
the X bottom and mixed them in with the newer parts.
LEGO never throws anything away, this is how we got old Maersk blue 3001old in
modern sets
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I wonder though: what happens when the variants aren’t functionnally equivalent?
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Nov 15, 2019 12:23 | | Subject: | Re: Suggestion for extra function in Studio | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, JLvL writes:
| | In Suggestions, JLvL writes:
| | Hello,
Over the las couple of months i have designed some cars in Studio.
Some bricks in the middle may have a different color than the color I am currently
building. So if the color doesn't matter you select 'not applicable'
for that specific brick.
It always takes quite some time to figure out in the wanted list which bricks
should be on not applicable. I think it is much easier to include the 'color'
not applicable in the list of colors in Studio.
As an extra function it is then useful to be able to choose the color of the
'not applicable' bricks. For example, if you are building a model in
red, you can set the 'not applicable' bricks to yellow. Because of the
contrast between these two colors you keep the overview on the model.
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Agreed… but the dedicated forum for Studio is http://forum.bricklink.com/
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Nov 8, 2019 14:25 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Reforms | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| | […]
| | My point was that forum.bl.com uses a modern, off-the-shelf, forum engine (and,
if I’m not mistaken, phpBB (it uses the Ariki style, designed for phpBB 3.0)).
So BL knows about and has experience with modern, off-the-shelf, forum engines
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And our experience has not been good. Very difficult to manage, and a real challenge
to customize.
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Yes, that’s why new ones are always popping up.
| | We had a bug for over year that prevented us from deleting any
post.
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And there are no notifications for private messages (took me months to see I
had some), and those can’t be deleted (well, you can, but they are still there).
I actually rather like the mailing-list / usenet look of this old forum. And
the macro tags and the inventory change messages….
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Nov 8, 2019 13:56 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Reforms | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, Admin_Russell writes:
| | In Suggestions, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
| | […]
Just like to add that our forum has all the functionality of this one as well
as the ability to edit, add attachments, conduct polls, plus more and its free
software - phbbs forum. It took our web guy an hour or so to get it installed
and me about a day to learn all about it (and I still don't know all there
is to know) […]
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Take a look at http://forum.bricklink.com/ ….
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From the front page:
Most users ever online was 20 on Wed Sep 12, 2018 4:25 pm
That was around the time ADP was announced.
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My point was that forum.bl.com uses a modern, off-the-shelf, forum engine (and,
if I’m not mistaken, phpBB (it uses the Ariki style, designed for phpBB 3.0)).
So BL knows about and has experience with modern, off-the-shelf, forum engines
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Nov 8, 2019 12:30 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Reforms | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, calsbricks writes:
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Just like to add that our forum has all the functionality of this one as well
as the ability to edit, add attachments, conduct polls, plus more and its free
software - phbbs forum. It took our web guy an hour or so to get it installed
and me about a day to learn all about it (and I still don't know all there
is to know) […]
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Take a look at http://forum.bricklink.com/ ….
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Nov 8, 2019 09:48 | | Subject: | Re: Forum Reforms | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, Adjour writes:
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I remember a regular member posting a very nice collection photo because they
were excited about finishing or near finishing it iirc. I think it got two replies...
On Reddit, that same post would have got hundreds of positive replies. […]
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On the other hand, 200 comments of “Good!” and “+1” aren’t fun to read either
I also believe that, as there are other forums that specialize in that sort of
posts, by comparison and by BL’s very nature, BL’s forum will always seem more
oriented towards selling/buying or cataloguing than MOCing or other news.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Nov 5, 2019 08:55 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 21318-1 | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 32606 Bright Light Orange Friends Accessories Flower with 7 Thick Petals and Pin (Extra)
* Add 1 Part 3070b Dark Green Tile 1 x 1 with Groove (3070) (Extra)
* Add 1 Part 87585 Reddish Brown Minifigure, Utensil Oar / Paddle Reinforced (Extra)
* Add 1 Part 18920 Flat Silver Minifigure, Utensil Scissors (Extra)
* Add 1 Part 30153 Trans-Yellow Rock 1 x 1 Jewel 24 Facet (Extra)
* Change {1 to 4} Part Black 32828 Bar 1L with 1 x 1 Round Plate with Hollow Stud (Extra)
* Change {1 to 2} Part Black 48729b Bar 1L with Clip Mechanical Claw, Cut Edges and Hole on Side (Extra)
* Change {1 to 6} Part Bright Green 33183 Carrot Top / Twig (Extra)
* Change {1 to 5} Part Bright Light Orange 33183 Carrot Top / Twig (Extra)
* Change {1 to 2} Part White 4502a Minifigure, Plume Feather Small (Extra)
* Change {1 to 3} Part Medium Dark Flesh 3024 Plate 1 x 1 (Extra)
* Change {1 to 3} Part Olive Green 3024 Plate 1 x 1 (Extra)
* Change {1 to 3} Part Black 4073 Plate, Round 1 x 1 (Extra)
* Change {1 to 2} Part Medium Dark Flesh 4073 Plate, Round 1 x 1 (Extra)
* Change {1 to 4} Part Reddish Brown 4073 Plate, Round 1 x 1 (Extra)
* Change {1 to 2} Part Green 24866 Plate, Round 1 x 1 with Flower Edge (5 Petals) (Extra)
* Change {1 to 2} Part Reddish Brown 85861 Plate, Round 1 x 1 with Open Stud (Extra)
* Change {1 to 2} Part Dark Blue 54200 Slope 30 1 x 1 x 2/3 (Extra)
* Change {1 to 2} Part Dark Tan 54200 Slope 30 1 x 1 x 2/3 (Extra)
* Change {1 to 2} Part Reddish Brown 54200 Slope 30 1 x 1 x 2/3 (Extra)
* Change {1 to 2} Part Reddish Brown 3070b Tile 1 x 1 with Groove (3070) (Extra)
* Change {1 to 3} Part Reddish Brown 98138 Tile, Round 1 x 1 (Extra)
* Change {1 to 2} Part Reddish Brown 20482 Tile, Round 1 x 1 with Bar and Pin Holder (Extra)
Comments from Submitter:
From a set that was actually built. (Not totally made up as the original submission seems to be  )
Only one negative change I didn’t include: I didn’t get an extra 28974.
2436c is also confirmed as the only variant I got.
For 2417 and 13183 for the canopies: they come in 5+5 unnumbered bags.
Each bag has 11x BGreen (resp. BLO) + 7x Dark Green (resp. Dark Orange) 2417 and 10x BGreen (resp. BLO) 13183.
The instructions list all the 2417 but only 45x 13183.
That makes 5x 13183 as Extra in each colour (one per bag). (+1 for BGreen as one is needed for the carrot in the crate.)
Note though that the build of the canopy only needs 41x 13183 and 53x BGreen/BLO 2417. But as I understand the “let’s match LEGO’s inventory” policy, the remaining ones are not Extra.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Oct 27, 2019 15:59 | | Subject: | Re: Four New Stud.io Pieces | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, FlamesFire101 writes:
| | Four pieces that I would like to see added are:
Black Large Figure Torso Skeletal with Gear Hips / Waist / Bottom
Pearl Dark Gray Large Figure Torso Skeletal Connector with 2 Ball Joints
Flat Silver Bionicle Armor Uniter with 2 Pin Holes on Front, Axle and Pin Holes
on Sides
Pearl Gold Bionicle Armor Uniter with 2 Pin Holes on Front, Axle and Pin Holes
on Sides
These four would be very good for 2016 uniter mocs, as it is currently difficult
to make them
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Use the dedicated forum for Studio: http://forum.bricklink.com/
There’s a whole subforum for missing parts.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Oct 27, 2019 07:33 | | Subject: | Re: Stud.io Piece not found and needs to be added | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, november3 writes:
| | stud.io is missing some pieces which I know but it has the majority of star wars
custom peices exept for 1 and heres 1 I need:
Trans-Red Dish 4 x 4 Inverted (Radar) with Solid Stud with Radial TIE Fighter
Cockpit Pattern
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Use the dedicated forum for Studio: http://forum.bricklink.com/
There’s a whole subforum for missing parts.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Oct 22, 2019 09:02 | | Subject: | Re: Wrong Gray tones on 4032 (all versions) | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Inventories | |
| In Catalog Requests, san.daniele writes:
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(p.s. wasn't able to select "inventory request" as topic)
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Because this topic is for automatic messages created when you fill the “Inventory
Change Request” form (see link at the bottom of the inventory, e.g. https://www.bricklink.com/catalogInvChange.asp?itemType=S&itemNo=4032-1
).
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Oct 17, 2019 11:11 | | Subject: | Re: Very necessary suggestion? | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, yorbrick writes:
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But it means sellers must use common sense when pricing them.
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I still don’t understand why it’s “common sense” when it’s anything but common
(the same in French) 
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Oct 17, 2019 06:57 | | Subject: | Re: Upgrade for Forum / Message macro tags | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
| In Catalog, Admin_Russell writes:
| | We have tweaked the Forum / Message macro tags in the following ways:
1) For parts, the color of the image may now be specified by adding a comma and
the BrickLink part number after the Item Number:
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Yeah!
| | 2) For sets, instructions and original boxes, the suffix is only needed when
it is not "-1":
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Yeah 2!
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Oct 11, 2019 18:01 | | Subject: | Re: Undetermined 3183 | | Viewed: | 51 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
| In LEGO, axaday writes:
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I have this in a set and I want to determine it, but I'm a little lost.
It has the 4 slots, but I can't tell from the limited pics the long and short
socket. Can someone help?
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The four I have are the same length but as one has two slots and the others 4,
I guess they are all “long.”
The length is a bit more than a stud: you can’t put a brick in front of the socket
and aligned on studs. (You can put a plate because the slots are high enough
for the tiny “bit more.”)
Oh, if you have
those are shorter, by around 1mm.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Oct 10, 2019 18:28 | | Subject: | Re: Brick Color | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
| In Colors, iprice writes:
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I concur with the brownish looking older greys.
The light greys look yellow compared to lbg.
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Yes. The “Bluish” aren’t bluish, they are really grey. They only appear bluer
than the old greys because those were actually yellowish. But they already had
a name and people were used to their names and tints, so the newer ones were
named “Bluish.”
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Oct 10, 2019 15:35 | | Subject: | Re: Brick Color | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
| In Colors, linesbusy writes:
| | How do you tell the difference between Dark Grey and Dark Bluish Grey bricks?
I want to make sure I purchase ones that match what I already have.
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Depends, what do you have?
If it’s post-2005, it’s DBG.
If it’s pre-2004, it’s DG.
In between, well, the Big Colour Shift happened in 2004 but LEGO used their stocks
for a while 
You can also check the inventories of your sets. If both greys were used for
a set, it’s generally noted in the inventory (Alternates section).
Also some parts exist only, or are much more frequent, in one dark grey.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Oct 10, 2019 11:24 | | Subject: | Re: 49699 a Panel?! | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
| In Catalog, Turez writes:
| | In Catalog, Teup writes:
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I can't discover anything panel-ish about this part. I'd say it's
window, door, technic, other, vehicle, or pretty much anything except a panel...
What do you think it should be?
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Since
is an arch, 49699 should perhaps just be a slope
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I don’t quite follow the logic here
Half an arch might be a slope but, surely, an arch + an inverted arch is not
a slope, it’s a cylinder!
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Okay but then it should be a Slope AND a Slope Inverted. And both Double. So
does that make it Quadruple or Double-Double?
We really need a catmin who is used to deep and rigorous classifications.
I don’t know, maybe an entomologist or something like that?
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Oct 10, 2019 09:16 | | Subject: | Re: 49699 a Panel?! | | Viewed: | 62 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
| In Catalog, firestar246 writes:
| | In Catalog, Teup writes:
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I can't discover anything panel-ish about this part. I'd say it's
window, door, technic, other, vehicle, or pretty much anything except a panel...
What do you think it should be?
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My first thought is technic or window frame
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Well:
1. Window (or door) frame implies you could put a glass or panel (or door)
inside. That seems very unlikely with the technic holes in the way.
2. It’s been used in System (City) sets for now BUT it sure looks like a Technic
Brick, yet not really.
So Technic could do but not really “Technic Brick” and there are no similar parts
(that I know of) in the other Technic categories, that would mean it should fall
in the general “Technic” category, which is already overpopulated.
I’m not envying the catmins
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Oct 8, 2019 14:17 | | Subject: | Re: How rare is a flat silver 2x4 brick? | | Viewed: | 83 times | | Topic: | Colors | |
| In Colors, mmookk61 writes:
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It took me a while but I misunderstood the purpose of this post at first. I
had originally thought that it was to arrange a trade for a rare brick for possibly
another rare brick. You know, 3 or 4 messages to establish the trade. Then
the trade happening via bricklink Private messages because, why would anyone
one else be interested in the details of one person's trade?
However, as I stated, I was wrong. This thread was meant to be a long, rambling,
time consuming library of Australian slang and possibly insults(I don't truthfully
know as I don't have the Australian to American translator to hand).
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Looks like Devil.R is not alone¹: they answer multiple times to the same messages
and they keep answering to themselves.
(¹That expression may have a figurative colloquial meaning, at least it has one
in French, but I’m not implying that. IOW, if you think I’m saying something
demeaming, honi soit qui mal y pense )
That thread could be a bit more sufferable if other people² (whose answers trigger
my reading: I’m an optimist and always hope for something useful to be said)
would correctly cut the quotes, and eventually decide if they want to top-post
or bottom-post.
(²Regulars should lead by example.)
| | Shoot yeah! Let's make this thread a record breaker of waste. See you all
here again and soon and often
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Someone’s waste is someone else’s treasure. Well, sometimes
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Sep 12, 2019 19:26 | | Subject: | Re: Change time zone | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
| In Suggestions, hpoort writes:
| | In Suggestions, HallBricks writes:
| | It would be great if I could change the time zone on BrickLink. Maybe not the
most necessary feature, but it feels like it wouldn't be that difficult of
a thing to implement.
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Have you ever thought about it's complexity?
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Very simple: everything is stored in UTC and presented in a local/chosen TZ.
The UTC → local TZ conversion is done with a standard, well tested library.
There. The complexity is outsourced.
Besides, it’s just about presentation. Official times are those in the database,
on the server, in UTC.
I stopped watching after he began talking about DST (“autumn in England”).
And that’s absurd. He talks about a programmer who:
1. doesn’t know what TZs are,
2. adds cases one by one instead of, finally, learning what’s it about,
3. and thus reinvents the wheel, spoke by spoke.
Yes, timezones are complex (and involve politics, therefore also totally insane)
and that’s why you don’t cobble up something in your garage.
Yes, timezones change frequently (remember, politics), but you just update the
TZ data the library uses.
One could do the same kind of video about 3D geometry or any other complex or
complicated but already well known feature.
Just showing a given UTC time in a chosen TZ should be easy peasy.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Sep 7, 2019 11:59 | | Subject: | Re: found wrong category | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
| In Catalog, Teup writes:
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So if printed parts never even have a different category than their parent part,
why is it apparently needed that these parts are assigned a category manually? […]
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There are lots of reasons why something isn’t automatized. The main ones are:
1. You have to realize it’s stupid work.
2. “You can automatize that?!” The users don’t even know they can ask for it
to be done.
3. And, of course, “there’s something else more urgent to do.”
You thought about it because you’re lazy (in a good way ) and you needed to
do the job yourself.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Sep 7, 2019 11:48 | | Subject: | Re: found wrong category | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
| In Catalog, Teup writes:
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(or better: change the "legs assembly" category in "lower body" and move all
short legs, mermaid tails and ghost lower bodies there too) […]
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Yes, please.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 26, 2019 17:19 | | Subject: | Re: Do part numbers change? | | Viewed: | 26 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
| In Catalog, Teup writes:
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€20 I spent on a programmer
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That’s what, one pizza and a coke?
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