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Re: Part search
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lugnet.cad.mlcad
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Fri, 22 Oct 2004 04:18:02 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.mlcad, Ross Crawford wrote:
> You can click on the "Part Description" header to sort by description, at
> which time you can also start typing and it will take you to the next part
> in the list matching what you've typed.
By "partial description" I was thinking more on the lines of just bringing up
any and all "2x2" parts. Anyways, I'm not sure being able to sort by full
description is all that helpful. You've got "_Animal" vs "Animal", "_TECHNIC"
vs "TECHNIC", and "_Boat" vs "Boat". Everything that starts with an underscore
gets sorted out before "Animal", and the gigantic categories (like Brick, Plate,
TECHNIC) get poured in with everything else. Basically, it's just a more
scrambled version of the part tree in the left sidebar. You still really need
to have a good sense of what parts will be sorted out into which categories. At
least when you sort the popup part list by number you can use the Peeron or
Bricklink search functions to track down the part number without having to worry
about how different people might classify it. A great example of this is part
#2342, which is classified as a "Space Control Panel" on Peeron and in LDraw,
but is classified as a "Minifig, Utensil: Control Panel" on Bricklink (Peeron
tries to match both made-up part numbers and descriptions with LDraw, correct?).
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Well I've found it helpful on may occasions, just not usually when I'm doing a cold search for a part. Besides, I was just pointing out that "since this method only allows you to search by part number" was incorrect. Note also that the part (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
| | | Re: Part search
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| (...) You might want to try Anders Isaakson's LDList, a small program for searching your LDraw parts. It's really a simple interface, allowing you to search for keywords or specific phrases. And LDList not only matches on part numbers and names, it (...) (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Part search
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| (...) You can click on the "Part Description" header to sort by description, at which time you can also start typing and it will take you to the next part in the list matching what you've typed. ROSCO (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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