identical tires in LDD?

[SNIPE]

hi,

there is two of these in the legndesighner brick list

whats the difference betweeen them

[DLuders]

What are you talking about? The 50945 "Tire 14mm D. x 6mm Solid Smooth" is a single item. When you wrote the garbled "legndesighner brick list", do you mean Lego Digital Designer? You really need to proof-read and spell-check your posts.

[Jim]

What are you talking about? The 50945 "Tire 14mm D. x 6mm Solid Smooth" is a single item. When you wrote the garbled "legndesighner brick list", do you mean Lego Digital Designer? You really need to proof-read and spell-check your posts.

I have to agree with DLuders on this one. Please explain more carefully what your problem, question or issue is, so we can help you out.

[SNIPE]

ok, in the brick panel of lego digital desighner there is two tires that look identical, they are this in real life.

what is the difference between the two identical looking tired in lego digital designer and is there two real bricks that are that of what it says in lego digital designer.

Edited August 12, 2011 by SNIPE

[DLuders]

I just opened LDD 4.1.8 in LDDextended mode, and did not see any tire with dimensions of 14x6 like the 50945 "Tire 14mm D. x 6mm Solid Smooth." One can hold the cursor over the Parts Pallette and see the dimensions. On the fourth row down of the Tire parts collection, there is a "Tyre Low Narrow ɸ14.58 x 6.24", but I don't see a second one like that in LDD 4.1.8 Extended Mode.

[Alasdair Ryan]

I do not the this new version of LDD but i would think it is ether one of these:

1) a simple mistake from Lego.

2)There is a difference in the two tires: tread, groves inside it , made from a softer/harder rubber.

If you could take a picture of the ldd interface maybay this could help us.

ctrl+print screen -> 'paint' -> paste

Edited August 12, 2011 by Alasdair Ryan

[SNIPE]

Here is the parts panel in Lego Digital Designer, the two wheel types are placed in the workspace as-well beside each other.

Edited August 12, 2011 by SNIPE

[AndyC]

Here is the parts panel in Lego Digital Designer, the two wheel types are placed in the workspace as-well beside each other.

Those parts are 3139 and 59895, I'm not sure what the exact difference is, but I suspect it's pretty minor as Bricklink suggests their basically compatible with the same hubs.

Neither of them is the one you indicated in your picture, however, which is in fact the one below the second one you've highlighted I believe.

[SNIPE]

Are you sure?

i don't think LEGO would miss out such a detail, the tires you posted had rings on the sides of them and are slightly ballooned on the top where as the tires i highlighted in the image are flat on top and have flat sides.

[AndyC]

Are you sure?

i don't think LEGO would miss out such a detail, the tires you posted had rings on the sides of them and are slightly ballooned on the top where as the tires i highlighted in the image are flat on top and have flat sides.

Very sure. If you place one and then select it, the part number shows up in the status bar.

[SNIPE]

Ah, thanks for the tip! :)

[Superkalle]

And I can only add that the two tires are very similar, but different. I have them in front of me and the difference is minute.

It can also be added that LDD is basically a peephole directly into the internal element structure of LEGO (quite interesting btw), and since LEGO always creates a new DesignID even for small changes in the mold, this ends up in LDD as well. Therefore you have a situation in LDD with several parts that may look identical, but aren't. In most cases in however, you can actually spot the difference by looking at them, but for this particular wheel the level of detail of the geometry is too low.