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Subject:	Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general
Date:	Tue, 6 Jul 1999 19:16:59 GMT
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On Tue, 6 Jul 1999 15:13:50 GMT, Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote: > What I would like to see for a pictorial reference would have two types > of pictures. One would be pictures of groups of similar parts (and a > part might appear in more than one picture). The other would be a > catalog sorted both by standard name, and function (in this 2nd listing, > again, a part might show up more than once). Pictures should probably be > links, or the catalog should be broken into small pages (one of the > pictorial catalogs out there causes problems with my browsers, probably > because of all the memory used, it also takes forever to load). Are you having problems with the pages I put up at <http://home.att.net/~partsref/>? Do you have any suggestions on ways the pages could be restructured to be smaller, but still usable as a tool to locate a specific part by looking at images of a bunch of parts? Some ideas that come to mind are: 1. Don't include images in the right-hand frame. Instead, have a list part-names, with each linking to a separate page with that part's image. 2. In the right-hand frame, only display a few parts at a time. Provide Previous and Next links, to step through the parts in the category. 3. Add another frame to the layout, display the list of categories in one frame, the list of parts in the current category in another frame, and the part images (with either approach #1 or #2) in the third. 4. Use a lot more categories (that would be tough to do, I have a program to generate the whole site, based on the LDraw names. 5. Add a search-function (that would be tough to do at the current location). Don't include any pages which display tons of images. 6. Drop the frames. Steve

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		Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
(...) Actually it was Lutz Uhlmann's Part Reference (at (URL) Frank Filz ---...--- Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)

		Parts Database (Was: Idea: ... Lego piece naming convention?)
So far, I've only used LDraw's partlist and Lutz's, but I must say Steve's looks very promising. When it comes to Lego databases, there is an infinite amount of data we all wish to enter or seek on. Here's my two ideas to make Mission Impossible a (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev)

		Re: Parts Database (Was: Idea: ... Lego piece naming convention?)
(...) EXCELLENT IDEA, Tore! Having that searchable would help a lot. Though it seems an odd characteristic to include, and no one would permanently categorize a piece by number of studs ('cept bricks, plates, and tiles), it is very helpful in (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev)

		Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
(...) It would be bad to put each image on a seperate web page. Right now I depend on printed parts catalogs, and having all the images on one page allows me to print them out quickly. If the parts were each on their own page it would make the site (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)

		Re: Parts Database (Was: Idea: ... Lego piece naming convention?) [DAT]
Ah, yet another promising database variant! This is great, and fast! I only see one problem with it is it only includes official LDraw elements. Isn't there any way we could make .DAT files for not yet rendered parts, too? Just for database (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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		Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
(...) My feeling is that it would be good to have a standard set of names for auctions and inventories. It would be nice if LDraw could use these names also, but sounds like there is good reason for it to use a different set of names. Two sets of (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

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