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Re: Slope Brick Round
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lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.db.brictionary
Date: 
Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:04:37 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Thomas Garrison wrote:
> Following up on a comment by Chris Dee on part 33243 on the Tracker. . .
> 
> There's this part 500 from the last parts update
>  Slope Brick Round  1 x  6 Inverted
> 
> The first mysterious thing about this name is that it starts with "slope",
> but then proceeds to give the dimensions as {width} x {run}, the opposite
> of every other slope I can recall in the LDraw library.
> 
> More importantly, this slope doesn't look like other slopes; it has a
> curved surface.  The partner of 500 is
>  www.peeron.com/inv/parts/x227
> so presumably this part should also be identified as a slope when added to
> the library.  But this part has essentially the same shape as
> 6215 Brick 2 x 3 with Curved Top
> and
> 2302 Duplo Brick 2 x 3 with Curved Top
> , so presumably those parts will themselves need to be renamed to the new
> "Slope Brick Round" category.  By analogy to existing slopes, so do parts
> 4744, 6216, 6081, 6192, 30165, 6091, and 6191.
> 
> Since all that renaming seems like a lot of work, I wonder if it wouldn't
> be easier to rename part 500. . .
> 
> (I couldn't find any previous LUGNET discussion about this new part
> category, and all discussion of part 500 on the Tracker was wiped out when
> it was released.)

It looks like another CATEGORY is about to be introduced.  Steve has added ROUND
as a CATEGORY; see
http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cgi?f=parts/3961.dat
It may make sense to start moving all of the round bricks to this category, if
that's what this category is intended for.

John



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Following up on a comment by Chris Dee on part 33243 on the Tracker. . . There's this part 500 from the last parts update Slope Brick Round 1 x 6 Inverted The first mysterious thing about this name is that it starts with "slope", but then proceeds (...) (23 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.db.brictionary)

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