Best way to help part author volunteers to meet part requests?

[Neil]

Greetings LDraw Friends,

Aside from providing links to BrickLink/BrickSet images, is there anything I can do to help part author volunteers to meet part requests?

For example, does a part author need to physically have the part and 3D-scan it? Such as Sabine's hair (from the Ezra Speeder Bike set):
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?P=18858pb01
http://cache.lego.com/bigdownloads/build...131809.pdf


Thank you,

LegoSW

[Max Martin Richter]

For easy shaped parts it's enought to have correct measures. For complex parts you should one the part and you should be able to 3D-scan this part OR this part is available in LDD, If so, you can extract the geometry there and rework it, that it matches our standards.

/Max

[Damien Roux]

High resolution pictures taken with a perfectly orientated angle are always welcomed for patterned parts. And sometime it's a pain to find them on the net if one doesn't own the part.

[Gerald Lasser]

I always appreciate a hi-resolution scan of the sticker sheets, Printed part etc., 600 or 1200 DPI would be perfect. A photograph never shows the proper dimensions (especially of stickers) respectively distorts the proportions.

[Neil]

Would it help any of you volunteers if I purchased pieces and had them sent to you? For example, I could buy the Sabine Wren minifig hair and send it to you so that you could 3-D scan it: http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?item...colorID=63