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Categories (was Re: Parts with odd angles)
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Thu, 15 Jul 1999 18:39:55 GMT
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On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:32:00 GMT, "Jeff Stembel" <Dragonelf1@aol.com>
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> What about removing some items from "Technic"? Like make some new categories,
> such as axles, beams, and gears? Personally I think the "Technic" category is
> to big and varied. Motors and battery boxes and such could go into electric,
> and misc. technic elements would stay in "Technic". Your thoughts?
Umm, the battery boxes and such *are* in electric. Are you looking at
LDAO's VEC? You might want to hit the "restore default categories" option
to capture the recent part-moves.
It's a good idea to look at the Technic category and maybe move stuff to
other (new or already-existing) categories.
Below are the counts of parts in each category. These might be slightly
off from the plain-vanilla, fresh-install part library -- I occasionally
edit the part files in my installation. But it should be very close.
It also looks for the 0 CATEGORY statement, which is not as clean as it
should be.
The biggest category is Brick, followed by Technic. These are both huge
categories. What could be done to balance these?
On the flip side, can we do something to get rid of the categories with
only a few parts? And generally balance things out.
Some stats:
Total parts: ~1300
Total Categories 73
Categories with 9- parts 42
If we wanted to balance the number of categories against the number of
parts, we could shoot for about 37 categories with 37 parts in each
category. Obviously, we wouldn't arbitrarily force the size or content of
a category just to get the magic number, but we can use the 37/37 as a
general guideline. Also, we're eventually going to end up with 2000 to
3000 parts, so would it be better to have more categories or more parts in
each category, or some of each?
I've put some trivial suggestions for consolidating categories in the third
column below.
Category Parts
Brick 159
Technic 128
Plate 89
Slope 74
Minifig 73
Baseplate 56
Tile 52
Train 49
Hinge 47
Electric 34
Door 33
Panel 32
Windscreen 30
Window 25
Space 22
Castle 20
Wing 20
Wheel 19
Car 17
Container 16
Tyre 16
Hose 14
Roadsign 14
Arch 13
Bar 12
Flag 12
Glass 12
Homemaker 12
Minifig Accessory 11
Plant 10
Wedge 10
Boat 9 Wing, Round, Wedge, Window
Town 9 Minifig (Accessory), Round, Car, Equipment
Conveyor 8 Equipment
Support 8
Tractor 8 Equipment
Tipper 7 Equipment
Arm 6
Bracket 6
Cone 6 Round
Garage 6
Tail 6 Wing
Antenna 5 Bar
Fence 5
Jack 5 Equipment
Turntable 5 Hinge
Crane 4 Equipment
Freestyle 4
Gate 4 Fence
Ladder 4 Equipment
Magnet 4
Cylinder 3 Round
Exhaust 3 Round
Grab 3 Arm
Lever 3 Hinge, Minifig
Rack 3 Gears
Rotor 3 Plane
Scala 3
Trailer 3 Car
Belville 2
Brush 2 Equipment
Forklift 2 Equipment
Horse 2 ? Equipment
Plane 2
Platform 2 ? Baseplate
Propellor 2 Plane
Rock 2 Panel
Roller 2 Door
Stretcher 2 Equipment
Barrel 1 Container
Stairs 1 ? Equipment
Tap 1 ? Minifig
Winch 1 Equipment
Steve
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 | | Re: Categories (was Re: Parts with odd angles)
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| Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:378e19fb.710642...net.com... (...) Patterned bricks could be put in BrickPatterned. It's nice to have all those 1x1 bricks with lettern & numbers, but it's a pain getting past them to the (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
| | | Re: Categories (was Re: Parts with odd angles)
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| (...) Whoops! I guess I should've looked before posting. :) Anyways, there are still some electric elements in Technic, including the polarity switch, micromotor, and the fibre-optics element. Jeff - "Mmmm! Creamy Spamcake centering!" (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) What about removing some items from "Technic"? Like make some new categories, such as axles, beams, and gears? Personally I think the "Technic" category is to big and varied. Motors and battery boxes and such could go into electric, and misc. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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