[MOC] Motorized Bus with Instructions

[Lego Conductor]

Well done Hallbricks. Love those doors. All in all a great bus and would you consider putting it on Lego Ideas?

[HallBricks]

Well done Hallbricks. Love those doors. All in all a great bus and would you consider putting it on Lego Ideas?

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it. Yes, I'll probably submit it. I just have a feeling that Lego rejects all large technic models, but I think it's worth a try.

[LEGO Train 12 Volts]

Amazing Moc!

[Joefraser]

Superb! The door mechanism is simply brilliant, very realistic/smooth and I love the fact that it looks solid and so well executed.

The model as a whole is really impressive.

[Brickis38542f]

What a nice presentation and the vehicle itself. It has to be my favorite lego bus.

[Tomik]

Awesome model of bus and I also like how you did video. It looks like you are profi creator of videos.

[TuanNguyen]

So cool, I never seen a lovely BUS MOC like this before, You would be an Lego designer

[HallBricks]

So cool, I never seen a lovely BUS MOC like this before, You would be an Lego designer

Thank you! Being a Lego Designer would be amazing!

[HallBricks]

I just wanted to tell you that this project is now on Lego Ideas. I thought it was worth a try so please leave a vote if you like it :)

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/136427

[WvG_853]

Glad you put it on Lego Ideas. I could imagine this becoming an official Lego Technic set ... if there is enough interest/promotion

[Patgeo]

My congratulations! It's really great the fact that you mamaged to hide all of its mechanisms and how nice you managed to make the doors open and close!

[HallBricks]

Finally the instructions have been finished, I feels like it has taken ages and I have had a couple of different problems with LPub. Unfortunately that led to that the look isn't always perfect but there should be no problems to follow the instructions. I hope for a macOS version of LPub 3D until next time. The project is now also on rebrickable.com so please visit my page there and also leave a like if you like my model.

http://rebrickable.com/mocs/HallBricks/motorized-bus

/HallBricks

[HallBricks]

Hi everyone! I decided to create a new topic to make it more clear, since I realized I wasn't able to rename a topic.

I have now, finally, finished the work with the instructions for my bus. It took ages to make them, and I had several problems with the different softwares the unfortunately led to that the result was not perfect, but it's totally usable. I apologize for the errors.

The project is on rebrickable so please visit the link if you are interested, and I appreciate if you give it a like if you enjoy it.

http://rebrickable.com/mocs/HallBricks/motorized-bus

Thank you!

/HallBricks

Edited July 6, 2016 by HallBricks

[Imanol BB]

http://rebrickable.com/mocs/HallBricks/motorized-bus is this one? if it is, i must say that the details and the look of it are amazing, and the functions are at the same level, the doors system is very nice, i like the whole model.

[HallBricks]

Yes that's right :) I'm happy you liked it!

[legolijntje]

I'm glad you were able to finish the instructions. Looks very good, especially for a first time

Only the quality of the images looks a bit weird ('bad'). It doesn't look like it's a low DPI, it looks more like you've compressed it or something like that. Did you modify/resize the pdf or something?

According to Rebrickable I have almost 90%, I'm missing mainly blue parts (and a ton of 32017 ).

[HallBricks]

I'm glad you were able to finish the instructions. Looks very good, especially for a first time

Only the quality of the images looks a bit weird ('bad'). It doesn't look like it's a low DPI, it looks more like you've compressed it or something like that. Did you modify/resize the pdf or something?

According to Rebrickable I have almost 90%, I'm missing mainly blue parts (and a ton of 32017 ).

I had to compress the PDF since it was way too big. The size was over 300 MB. I used Acrobat, but I should probably have done it in another way. I still have the original file, do you have any suggestions of how to do it better?

[legolijntje]

I had to compress the PDF since it was way too big. The size was over 300 MB. I used Acrobat, but I should probably have done it in another way. I still have the original file, do you have any suggestions of how to do it better?

Haha, I expected Acrobat, because the compression of the images looked quite like when I compressed an instruction pdf a while ago using Acrobat

I don't really have another suggestion. The file size is that big, because there's just a huge amount of images. I mean, you have 390 pages. If there would only be 2 images a page, it would have almost 800 images. However, there are many more, so it's really a few kilobyte per image. It's just that there are so many...

The compression is indeed a way to reduce the filesize, but you're also reducing the quality. I don't know if it's a problem for a lot of people, but I instantly noticed it (don't get me wrong, it's not a real 'problem' for me either, just a... minor annoyance ).

You could also play a bit with LPub's DPI setting. Around 150 looks quite good with a reasonable filesize. Lower DPI means lower quality but also lower size. A little warning though: when changing the DPI, it's very, very, very likely your LPub layout is screwed up a bit. You might have to change the front sizes to something bigger or smaller (because the DPI changed). I usually set my desired DPI at the very, very beginning before doing anything else in LPub.

Other than that, you can also just split the pdf or put in a zip file (although the .7z format seems to compress a pdf a little better than the .zip format).

[HallBricks]

Haha, I expected Acrobat, because the compression of the images looked quite like when I compressed an instruction pdf a while ago using Acrobat

I don't really have another suggestion. The file size is that big, because there's just a huge amount of images. I mean, you have 390 pages. If there would only be 2 images a page, it would have almost 800 images. However, there are many more, so it's really a few kilobyte per image. It's just that there are so many...

The compression is indeed a way to reduce the filesize, but you're also reducing the quality. I don't know if it's a problem for a lot of people, but I instantly noticed it (don't get me wrong, it's not a real 'problem' for me either, just a... minor annoyance ).

You could also play a bit with LPub's DPI setting. Around 150 looks quite good with a reasonable filesize. Lower DPI means lower quality but also lower size. A little warning though: when changing the DPI, it's very, very, very likely your LPub layout is screwed up a bit. You might have to change the front sizes to something bigger or smaller (because the DPI changed). I usually set my desired DPI at the very, very beginning before doing anything else in LPub.

Other than that, you can also just split the pdf or put in a zip file (although the .7z format seems to compress a pdf a little better than the .zip format).

I totally agree that the quality looks weird but I think it's good enough to follow the instructions. I don't think I'll improve them now, but I'll do it differently next time.

I found that the layout changed the first time I changed the DPI, it was a real pain going through all pages again correcting errors. And then it changed again :(

Thank you for all your help with this project.

Haha, I expected Acrobat, because the compression of the images looked quite like when I compressed an instruction pdf a while ago using Acrobat

I don't really have another suggestion. The file size is that big, because there's just a huge amount of images. I mean, you have 390 pages. If there would only be 2 images a page, it would have almost 800 images. However, there are many more, so it's really a few kilobyte per image. It's just that there are so many...

The compression is indeed a way to reduce the filesize, but you're also reducing the quality. I don't know if it's a problem for a lot of people, but I instantly noticed it (don't get me wrong, it's not a real 'problem' for me either, just a... minor annoyance ).

You could also play a bit with LPub's DPI setting. Around 150 looks quite good with a reasonable filesize. Lower DPI means lower quality but also lower size. A little warning though: when changing the DPI, it's very, very, very likely your LPub layout is screwed up a bit. You might have to change the front sizes to something bigger or smaller (because the DPI changed). I usually set my desired DPI at the very, very beginning before doing anything else in LPub.

Other than that, you can also just split the pdf or put in a zip file (although the .7z format seems to compress a pdf a little better than the .zip format).

Also the edge lines around boxes, parts lists for example, got really weird when compressing. I don't know why and recompressed with different settings multiple times without achieving better results.

Edited July 6, 2016 by HallBricks

[Jim]

Hi everyone! I decided to create a new topic to make it more clear, since I realized I wasn't able to rename a topic.

I happen to do renames and merges. Which original topic are you refering to?

I do remember the bus. Do you have link to the topic?

[HallBricks]

I happen to do renames and merges. Which original topic are you refering to?

I do remember the bus. Do you have link to the topic?

This was the original topic: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=123535&st=25#entry2603973

I just wanted to make it clear in the topic name that the instructions are created.

/HallBricks

[Jim]

I just wanted to make it clear in the topic name that the instructions are created.

Let me do that for you

Merged both topics and changed the title. Do you a nice promo picture?

[HallBricks]

Let me do that for you

Merged both topics and changed the title. Do you a nice promo picture?

Thank you Jim! It's as I wanted it now :)

[Theo van Vroenhoven]

Nice bus! Will probably build it in red however.

Regarding compressing pdf's: you might look at this solution https://smallpdf.com/compress-pdf

[Jub]

Amazing MOC. Simple compact and efficient. Very impressive. Can't wait to see your next design