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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to c/lego@lemmy.world
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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It is applied knowledge of LEGO bricks and parts dimensions.

Think those parts not in studs and bricks, but units. A brick 1x1 is 5 units wide and 6 units high. A plate is 2 units thick. The stud on the headlight stone is set back by one unit. A slope 33° 1x1 is 4 units high at the high and one unit high at the low end. And when you keep thinking in those units, SNOT and other building techniques suddenly get much easier.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

FYI, you need to escape the asterisks with backslashes, otherwise there are rendered as italicization markdown:

A brick 1\*1 is 5 units wide and 6 units high. A plate is 2 units thick. The stud on the headlight stone is set back by one unit. A slope 33° 1\*1 is 4 units high at the high and one unit high at the low end.

Rendered as:

A brick 1*1 is 5 units wide and 6 units high. A plate is 2 units thick. The stud on the headlight stone is set back by one unit. A slope 33° 1*1 is 4 units high at the high and one unit high at the low end.