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Re: Proposal: New Parts Category for round parts
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Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:18:38 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> "Joshua Delahunty" <dulcaoin@cse.ucsc.edu> writes:
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> > Personally (and I'm apparently in the minority here), I want my
> > part names to work for me intuitively, and if I have to shift
> > mindsets "Hmm, let's see, I think this is something they'd call
> > Technic, so let me start there" rather than go with with it was
> > initially (I'm speaking more of the steering link than anything
> > else), it's a lot easier to remember where in the list it might be.
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> Admittedly, it's a bit early in the morning over here, but I can't
> understand wether you mean that you want the parts to be categorized
> after the the type of part, or in what kind of set it appears the
> first time! *boggle*
I'd like them to be categorized as the part is used, for the most part,
rather than with a hyper-technical over-engineered approach.
The steering rod is (to me, personally), a steering rod before it's a
technic axle with ball sockets. When I go to insert one in LeoCAD, or
some other package, I'm gonna want to be able to search on "steering"
or "rod", and not "TECHNIC" (too many matches) or "Axle" (too many matches,
and not as intuitive to me) or "ball sockets".
I'd rather NOT have to switch from the mindset of "what would most people
think of this as" to "what kinds of technical LEGO features does this part
have that the LDRAW guys might have zeroed in on to name this element?"
EVERY time I need to find a new element that I haven't memorized the LDRAW
name for.
> What about the Technic Ski Pole, for example? It was originally
> introduced along with the Technic figure ski element in the mid 80's
> Technic arctic sets. It has a technic connector pin on one end, but
> apart from that it has very few traces of technic on it. And nowadays
> it is used mostly as a decorative item in Model Team sets. Should it
> be in the Technic category, or should it be in the Bar category?
Considering the connector peg, I'd say this element is Technic all the
way, IMO.
So I went and looked, and What do you know? I've still got it named
"Technic Figure Ski Pole". Through all the Model Team and Pirates sets
and whatnot, I've still found that to be the easiest search term to use
when trying to find this element.
So I guess I would argue that that original use term is probably best
from my perspective, knowing full-well that many people would disagree with
me. (One might note that I'm a tad behind in my inventory of Model Team
sets from latter years).
Technic Figure Ski Pole
Qty Color Set U.S. Set Name Year Theme
--- ------ ---- ------------------------- ---- ---------------
2 Grey 8640 Polar Copter 1986 Action Set
2 Red 8620 Snow Scooter 1986 Action Set
2 Red 8660 Arctic Rescue Unit 1986 Action Set
2 Red 8680 Arctic Rescue Base 1986 Action Set
2 Yellow 8640 Polar Copter 1986 Action Set
2 Yellow 8680 Arctic Rescue Base 1986 Action Set
2 Black 8840 Rally Shock N' Roll Racer 1991 Model
1 Black 5581 Magic Flash 1993 Model
1 Black 6266 Cannon Cove 1993 Imperial Guards
1 Grey 5581 Magic Flash 1993 Model
2 Grey 5591 Mach II Red Bird Rig 1994 Model
1 Grey 6036 Skeleton Surprise 1995 Royal Knights
1 Yellow 6339 Shuttle Launch Pad 1995 Launch Command
1 Grey 6493 Flying Time Vessel 1996 Time Cruisers
1 Grey 6494 Mystic Mountain Time Lab 1996 Time Cruisers
Totals
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Black: 4
Grey: 8
Red: 6
Yellow: 5
> > It was in Blue in 1995 in a Freestyle set, at least...
> It appeared that early in a Freestyle set?! Wow, at least it
> demonstrates that my knowledge about Freestyle is limited.
I think I BOUGHT that Freestyle set just BECAUSE it had this
item that I personally considering Technic (shrug). The
camel/dog/horse/elephant heads were intriguing as well.
-- joshua
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