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Re: Parts Ref upgrade?
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Date:
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Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:47:54 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Steve Bliss wrote:
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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.
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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:
 I have used that feature quite a bit, but have often come up against the limited number of parts in the Partsref. - You can link multiple parts easily, eg: here. (It would be cool if they were separated with commas to be consistent with the set reference though).
ROSCO
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| (...) 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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| (...) 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)
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