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Re: Technic Axle Joiner / Cross Block descriptions
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:33:43 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Scott Wardlaw wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, David Laswell wrote:
> > In lugnet.cad.dev, Scott Wardlaw wrote:
> > > Most of you know my opinion on this one - use BrickLink names.
> > >
> > > Our community is dispursed enough. We need to work to unify what we can.
> > >
> > > BrickLink names are the most widely used amongst the community.
> >
> > See, right there I couldn't agree with you less. I spend a lot more time
> > producing a design in LDraw than I do plugging the parts list into Bricklink,
> > and when I'm doing so I generally have to stick to part numbers rather than
> > descriptions because I can never remember the Bricklink names. LUGNET's part
> > guide and Peeron's inventory system follow the LDraw names where they're
> > available, so right there you also have three resources that are in agreement
> > through the entirety of their databases whenecver at least two resources list
> > the same part. It always struck me as odd and possibly somewhat exclusionary
> > that Bricklink often uses different names and part numbers (sometimes even when
> > both conventions appear to be using an official part number they aren't the same
> > number), especially given that Bricklink does not link back to any other
> > resource (on Peeron, for instance, you can find a link to download any approved
> > LDraw files for that specific part).
>
> Good thing you don't have to agree for the statement to still be true. Ldraw
> has just over 3 thousand members. BrickLink has nearly 110 thousand.
Good thing number of Ldraw members has nothing to do with number of Ldraw users
:)
While I agree it would be nice if the two sources matched, unfortunately they
serve totally different purposes, and that is unlikely to ever happen. BL has
items that will never be authored in Ldraw, and Ldraw has parts that will never
be in the BL catalog. So the only solution would be a totally separate list
containing the union of both, and the maintainer would have to get agreement
from both, make sure both are up to date, etc etc. Certainly not a job I'd want
to take on. And that's not even considering the major initial hassle in matching
all the part numbers.
So while BL may be the most up to date, I don't agree it would be the best
choice for the "master list", and I don't think there will ever be one (except
the one LEGO have, of course).
But then I am a renowned pessimist.
ROSCO
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| (...) Good thing you don't have to agree for the statement to still be true. Ldraw has just over 3 thousand members. BrickLink has nearly 110 thousand. Peeron is great for the one resource that it is most used for - historical instructions on LEGO (...) (15 years ago, 27-Jul-09, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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