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Subject: 
Re: Wheels with/without metal axle
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lugnet.cad.dat.parts
Date: 
Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:32:56 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Niels Karsdorp wrote:
> Okay, I know it's a bad thing to reply to your own posts, but as I haven't
> got any answer and I do want this issue solved, I found it okay to kick this
> up again. Please read the first post in this topic.

Sorry about the lack of reply.  I don't have most of these older wheels, so I'm
not familiar enough with them to really comment on physical aspects.  I can only
answer from the POV of a parts librarian.

> One more thing why I prefer to have the axleless parts at the same origin as
> the complete with axle parts is when a builder wants to use a wheel with a
> different colored axle. The builder can replace the wheel with axle with the
> corresponding axleless version (and adding the axle manually) without having
> to reposition the wheel.

That's understandable.  And I agree that it's generally better to keep the same
origin for master part files and their component files.

I think it'd be awesome if modeling software offered an inliner function, so
model-builders could easily replace cXX parts with their subpart components. :)

> Secondly, should the titles be changed to match those used by Peeron? (Or the
> other way round).

When the files are officially released, Peeron will update their part names to
match LDraw.

> Personally I prefer the train wheels to start with Train
> Wheel in the title.

I don't really agree with that.  These wheels work with the same 2x4 wheel
holder as non-train wheels.  So they should be grouped together.  However, the
train wheels should have Train in their KEYWORDS list.

> The axleless versions should have a ~ prefix so these
> won't show up between regular parts.

Yes, definitely.  Since these parts don't come apart (without damage), the
component files should be mark with a tilde (~).

> I also found some duplicates on the parts tracker:
> x454 vs x244

Hmm.  Which of these files is more prototypical?

> x568s01 vs x244
> x568s03 vs 35b

Hmm.  It looks like x568s01 and x568s03 will need to be deleted.  If there is an
error in a file, we need to correct the error, not duplicate the file.

Steve



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