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    Parts Ref upgrade? —Ross Crawford
   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)
   
        Re: Parts Ref upgrade? —Steve Bliss
   (...) 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 (...) (20 years ago, 27-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
   
        Re: Parts Ref upgrade? —Ross Crawford
   (...) 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)
   
        Re: Parts Ref upgrade? —Dan Boger
   (...) You could do something similar with Peeron's search: (URL) think Steve gave up on updating Partsref since the update process was very manual work and extreamly difficult for him. That, and LDraw starting to host their own part images - it was (...) (20 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
 

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