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Re: Parts Ref upgrade?
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Date:
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Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:05:19 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Ross Crawford wrote:
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And I can’t think of an answer to these questions that doesn’t involve
problems with the parts ref. Can anyone else? And is the composite turntable
part in the parts ref? I can’t think of any other way to find it.
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There are problems with Partsref. The counts on the keywords list are, at best,
approximate. The search is inaccurate. The biggest problem is that it hasn’t
been updated in over 2 years.
To address your direct concern: the most stable way to dig out information is
to go through the category links (unfortunately, it’s hard to search this way --
you have know (or guess) the part’s categorization). In this case, look under
the Moving Elements category, then
the Turntables subcategory,
and you’ll see the 5 turntable elements recognized by Partsref.
I stopped updating Partsref because, at the time, it was too much of a hassle to
maintain and enhance. If I remember right, I was frustrated on a number of
coordination issues.
Now, I think the time for Partsref may have passed -- it only includes parts in
LDraw, so it misses quite a bit of parts-information. Peeron and Bricklink are
better parts-references than Partsref. However, I’d be willing to consider a
doing a Partsref 2.0, if people want the resource to be available.
Steve
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| (...) There's a couple of nice features of Partsref that I've used: It can be included easily in FTX, eg: [LDrawPart 3001:7] I have used that feature quite a bit, but have often come up against the limited number of parts in the Partsref. You can (...) (20 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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| OK. Today I was looking for the 4x4 turntable in the parts ref. So I type in "turntable" thinking its a fairly uncommon word in LEGO parts, and his enter. I get 1 part in the result: (URL) think "Hmmmm thats strange", so I go look up the part (...) (20 years ago, 27-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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