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Re: Proposal: New Parts Category for round parts
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Date: 
Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:36:42 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Kevin Salm wrote:

Part 6259 (or should it be 6218 ??) IS NOT A CYLINDER.
http://guide.lugnet.com/partsref/search.cgi?q=6259

It's both 6259 and 6218.  TLC has two different types of molds, one for
opaque parts and another for transparent.

I've been meaning to add some shortcut/redirection files to LDraw, to
handle this situation (ie, I'm going to submit a 6218.DAT that
references 6259.DAT).  There are some other parts with the same problem.

I agree that it fits into the Cyliner category and agree that
2 of these pieces make a cylinder, but just 1 unit is only a
HALF CYLINDER.

Yep, we know. ;)

So, Part 6259 should be renamed.
The name I suggest is   Round Cylinder Half  2 x 4 x 4

I thought about going with "Cylinder Half", but if we're going to have
"Brick ... Curved Top", then Panel parts should (probably) get a similar
treatment.

Or, I could just add '0 KEYWORDS panel' to this file, and set the name
as Kevin suggests.

Oh, and I am all in favor of moving items to better category locations.
Theme-based and Set-based names are bad.  Form over function is the best
naming convention to use (I know Steve and Lar agree on this, too).
There are exceptions--and allowances must be made.  I like category
'Boat' and I like category 'Space' but many of the items in Space
need to be moved out to other locations.   I dislike theme-based
categories but some pieces do belong in those places.  A lot of items
could be moved from the theme categories and moved to Minifig
sub-categories (Castle is a good example).

I think I agree with this entire paragraph. :)

Steve



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