https://miek.nl/tags/lxf/ Recent content in Lxf on Miek Gieben Hugo en-us © Copyright 2007-2024 Miek Gieben Sun, 19 Jun 2016 12:27:12 +0100 https://miek.nl/2016/june/19/triangular-warren-truss-bridge-in-lego/ Sun, 19 Jun 2016 12:27:12 +0100 https://miek.nl/2016/june/19/triangular-warren-truss-bridge-in-lego/ <p>Lately I have been playing around with LEGO (again). To pretend that I am an adult I&rsquo;m designing models with <a href="http://ldd.lego.com/">Lego Digital Designer</a>. It took some getting used to, but it is a nice tool. Also it runs perfectly in <a href="https://www.winehq.org/">Wine</a> (on my Mac running Linux).</p> <p>I&rsquo;m toying with a plan to build a LEGO train triangular <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truss_bridge#Warren_truss">Warren truss</a> bridge.</p> <figure class="left" > <img src="https://miek.nl/images/2016/bridge2-2.png" loading="lazy" /> <figcaption class="center" >Triangular Warren truss bridge: front view.</figcaption> </figure> <p>Not having build it, I can&rsquo;t <em>really</em> say if a train passes under it (think it does), and if it is structurally sound (again I think so).</p>