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Re: Tim visits the Model Shop (was: Re: The Artemis Project)
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lugnet.cad
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Fri, 25 Aug 2000 22:43:05 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Steve Bliss writes:
> In lugnet.cad, Tim Courtney wrote:
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> > As far as parts naming conventions (this opens up another whole can of worms)
> > pretty much, they aren't going to be changing theirs (I suggested
> > interfacing the LCAD and TLC naming conventions), so somewhere along
> > the line we will have to adopt their convention if we want to be compatible
> > (big IF).
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> A couple problems with this:
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> 1. Do you have any reason to think that they will ever *tell* us what their
> names are? Not just one or two at a time, but releasing the entire list.
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> 2. As I understand it (not having seen most of their part names), TLC
> doesn't have *a* standard for naming parts. With LDraw, we're making an
> effort to use names that are consistent, easy to reference (once you're
> used to our methods), and standardized. I'd hate to lose that, just to
> adhere to an inferior (usability-wise) 'official' source.
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> > Their English
> > naming convention often comes from direct translations from the Danish, and
> > when you deal with direct translations you don't always get the best word in
> > the second language.
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> Yah. And translated names change occasionally.
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> > The guy there said he even started renaming some of the
> > LDraw parts to conform to TLC's naming convention - because that's what he • was
> > used to. I neglected to ask him whether he used the English translation or
> > the Danish.
I can absolutely confirm that Legos Danish-to-English part name translations
dont usually come out very well from my work on the Technic parts registry.
It used to be that I tried very hard to get "official" Lego names for all of
the parts in the registry (and the registry is still at least 50% US Lego
translations from the Danish) but finally gave up when I realized that my
own names were much more descriptive.
From what I have been able to gather names are typically standardized to a
short 'run' of similar pieces (maybe 3 or 4). Another major problem with Lego's
nomenclature is that several pieces will have exactly the same name (I know
of at least 5 different Technic pieces called simply 'steering gear'.
Now I cant say that I always agree with the LDraw part names I still think
you are better off making Lego standardize to YOUR names.
--Jim
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