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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, John VanZwieten wrote:
> Marc Klein <marckl@easynet.fr> wrote in message
> news:fc9gaskakm4uv5hslq0ck47i9biqim1gri@4ax.com...
> > Here is the other part
> > If someone has a better idea for the name of the part...
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> As for name, the closest part we now have is:
> 634 Conveyor Belt part 4.
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> This part could be considered a conveyor belt, but it would probably be more
> easily found in the Tyre category. Maybe:
> Tyre Caterpillar xW yL (x and y being the width and length of the tread.)
And in lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Marc Klein wrote:
> I have also changed the name to Technic Tread. I suggest to change
> also the name of part 32007.dat to Technic Tread Hub.
I like Marc's idea better than putting the tread pieces in Tyre (and the hub
would then go Wheel, I guess). Then again, I've never liked the way tyres are
in a separate parts-category from the hubs, so I'm biased.
Another spanner in the works: there are also the Arctic tread pieces. These
logically belong with the parts Marc has done. We could create a new Tread
category for all these pieces (which could also include the Technic Tread Link
piece, already ldrawn). But it's likely that there will never be a large number
of Tread elements, so maybe a new, separate category isn't really justified.
The Arctic pieces do not seem to belong in Technic, so we can't put *all* the
tread pieces there.
Or we could use the Tyre/Wheel approach.
For now, I recommend the Marc's parts go into Technic Tread (using the 0
CATEGORY meta-statement), and we can revisit this when/if other tread elements
are modeled.
Steve
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| (...) I think I disagree with the last statement. The rubber threads from Arctic and Mindstorms are conseptually very different from the plastic thread links. I think that the thread links are better left in the "Technic Link" category together with (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| Marc Klein <marckl@easynet.fr> wrote in message news:fc9gaskakm4uv5h...4ax.com... (...) This part is missing the edgelines for the straight sections of the tread, but it looks fixed on your straight subpart. As for name, the closest part we now (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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