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Most kids who have been exposed to Lego eventually develop an innate stud length comparative measurement ability. They are a standard size already, and both Europeans and Americans of the same generation can think in Lego Stud Length without too much brain strain.
Not an official source, but...
http://www.robertca...asurements-en.xhtml
Legos seem to be metric. [MechE, Mar 14 2012]
Lego Dimensions
http://goldfndr.hom...m/lego/legodim3.gif
Not official, but seems correct... [goff, Mar 15 2012]
All things Lego
http://www.lugnet.com/
This site seems to have all information about Lego you could wish for... [goff, Mar 15 2012]
Danish units of measurement
http://en.wikipedia...nits_of_measurement
How many skrupels is that? [PainOCommonSense, Mar 16 2012]
Anti-Ouch Lego
Anti-Ouch_20Lego_20System
Solves that problem of herding Lego magnetically... [goff, Mar 20 2012]
[link]
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Why was this idea not invented sooner? |
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Probably for the same reason that we're not all speaking
Esperanto. |
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Sometimes the human condition drives me to
despair. On the other hand, it sometimes drives me
to drink, so it's a mixed bag. |
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For a graphics class I took I had to create a 3D model of a lego race car in SolidWorks. I measured the legos with the most accurate micrometer I have but could not find a precise measurement in millimeters to express what a lego is. The actual measurement may be an irrational number of millimerers. If SolidWorks had a lego setting my life would have been much easier. + |
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Legos are dimensioned in inches. |
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Damn. Now you've made me verb a noun. |
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//Sometimes the human condition drives me to despair// |
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Many things used to drive me crazy then I realized I'm close enough to walk there whenever I want. |
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[MB] I found at least one source that says legos are
metric based (and the numbers don't covert to
anything sane for inches). |
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I assume you mean pitch, rather than length. If so, the base unit is precisely 8.0 mm. |
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I have read previously that the lego unit is 1.6mm
(not inches). |
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The dimensions are clearly indicated on the Wikipedia Lego article. The height of a stud is given as 1.7 mm. |
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Nope, I meant length. As in '4 studs long' = xx mm. |
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Based on memory, it seems likely to me that the @maz0n
seller confused inches for millimeters. |
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The overall dimensions of a mini-figure are close to an inch wide (hand to hand, they will fit side by side on a base plate with one stud between feet, so less than 24 mm total), noticealby more than an inch tall, and about three eights thick (except for ones with accesories, they will fit back to back, but not quite face to face, so slightly more than 8 mm thick). Thus his dimensions for a mini-figure are not that far off (but would be absurdly off in mm, and significantly off in cm). |
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Given that he's custom modifying his own minifigures, though, I don't think he's a good source for official dimensions or units. |
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[Rayford] Pitch (stud to stud distance) would have to be the standard. An eight stud block is slightly more than twice as long as a 4 stud block, as the clearance on either end an absolute, not a relative value. |
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There is another problem here. Buy a box of legos, get out your micrometer set, and start measuring. Find two exactly the same size? Good luck. |
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[Rayford] - see link, but the dimensions of the brick
appear to be multiples of the base unit (be it 1.6 or
1.7 mm), As DIY Matt says, I suspect that point is
moot, as the tolerance on the bricks won't be .1mm
anyway. |
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//There is another problem here. Buy a box of legos,
get out your micrometer set, and start measuring.
Find two exactly the same size? Good luck.// |
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Hardly a problem. For day to day measurements, the
manufacturing tolerance is inconsequential (and will
tend to average out over distances anyway), and for
precision measurements you simply apply the
reference standard, defined in terms of another unit
that is already has universal scientific acceptance (so
in this case, precisely 7.06932355 potrzebie). |
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Lego is from Denmark, so I very much doubt it would be measured in Inches as I am pretty sure they have never had them. leg ( pron ley) = play, godt (pron got) = good. |
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I for one welcome our new ISO standard. We should apply colour pantone etc. using the same standard. |
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I take some of that back perhaps it was a skruple (see link) |
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I've always admired the Danish for their
skrupulousness. |
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//leg ( pron ley) = play// That can't be right. The 'e' in modern Danish is not a diphthong. The vowels in the Danish pronunciation of lego are almost exactly the same as those in Italian 'prego' (as spoken by native Italian speakers; closer to 'prayer-gore' than 'pray-go', unless you're Scottish). |
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The 'e' is like that in English 'bed', but with the tongue further forward, as in Australian English. The 'o' is like 'caught', but again, with an Australian accent - the tongue far back in the mouth, and the lips slightly protruded. |
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That's why most discussions about how to pronounce lego are a little pointless. Most English dialects don't contain the correct vowel sounds at all, so asking whether it's 'leg' or 'lay', for instance, is meaningless. It's a bit like neither and both. In fact, it's rather like Australian 'leg' and Scottish 'lay'. |
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The major point that most seem to miss is that the plural
of Lego is 'Lego'. There's a word for that, I believe. |
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and I though this was the title of Danish porn movie... |
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<Alterother> Yes, Lego is like sheep. I wish someone
would invent a small robot border collie to round
my boys' Lego up though, it's everywhere! |
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My parents used to complain about a phenomena that I
only recently experienced while visiting the home of some
in-laws: Lego lurking in deep-pile carpet, waiting to bite
you on the instep at 3am. Sheep don't do that. |
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[Alterother] Unless you have very deep pile carpet and vampire sheep. |
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Thank you for a month's worth of nightmare material. Now
I'm afraid to go to the bathroom after bedtime. Satisfied? |
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Of course the answer to the deep pile carpet lies
within the environs of this website...see link. |
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I'll take vampire sheep over ambush Lego any day. |
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This is a no brainer. [+] |
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