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Most Common Parts that remain missing from LDraw - tom alphin - 2025-01-06 Happy 2025! As some folks here know, I launched a LEGO Parts Guide in 2024 which includes detailed analytics to determine the 'most common' parts based on # pieces produced across all sets, # sets using the part, # colors produced in, # of years produced. The default sort is the "Overall Rank" which is a 'hybrid' ranking metric that factors in both #pieces & #colors. I wanted to start a new list to capture very common LEGO parts which remain missing from LDraw. In particular, I'd love to see the roughly 100 parts (out of the top 2000 parts of all time) which aren't in LDraw yet!
I stopped at #1500 for now, but there are a lot more you can find in the programmatically-generated list at https://brickarchitect.com/parts/not-in-ldraw.php ---Tom Alphin P.S. Interestingly, I am observing about the same number of missing LDraw Parts when scoping my list to sets from the past 5 years (113 parts without an image) as when I scope to sets released across all years (87 parts without an image). It's super interesting to see how LEGO parts fit into a typical long-tail distribution with the vast majority of LEGO pieces being produced representing just a small number of the most common moulds. Maybe I can do an article with some tables showing this long-tail distribution and how it correlates to parts which have / don't have 3d models in LDraw as well. RE: Most Common Parts that remain missing from LDraw - Jeff Jones - 2025-01-07 maybe i could author 90661 RE: Most Common Parts that remain missing from LDraw - tom alphin - 2025-01-07 (2025-01-07, 0:12)Jeff Jones Wrote: maybe i could author 90661 That would be great :-) I look forward to not seeing the 'no image' icon in the future! RE: Most Common Parts that remain missing from LDraw - Rene Rechthaler - 2025-01-07 that list already has some pictures (LDraw renders), which comes from the different naming between sites... rebrickable is quite good for that because it has links to the other pages including LDraw. Some parts also have different variants, which also get lost sometimes. Other parts like the rubber bands arent in LDraw yet because they mostly get modeled according to their use. Other Themes like Scala/Belville, Duplo, Clikits and Bionicle arent popular and hard to model. Some arent just linked, for example, these two are the same part but not linked https://brickarchitect.com/parts/7b https://library.ldraw.org/parts/8912 same here (but idk which variant matches): https://brickarchitect.com/parts/3324 https://library.ldraw.org/parts/5966 RE: Most Common Parts that remain missing from LDraw - tom alphin - 2025-01-08 (2025-01-07, 17:34)Rene Rechthaler Wrote: Some arent just linked, for example, these two are the same part but not linked I have manually linked many of these parts. Those are good examples that I have missed, thanks. This is why I'm going to continue adding parts that I have confirmed are missing to the OP in this thread. RE: Most Common Parts that remain missing from LDraw - Gerald Lasser - 2025-01-08 (2025-01-06, 23:41)tom alphin Wrote: Happy 2025! I have seen that a few parts are not pictured although the part is available Could you upload this to google sheets to be able to better comment on it. We can always refer to if from here or have a detailed discussion on some parts. It would also be easier to add the raw-source or add an effort estimation to do the part. Older Duplo stuff seems pretty fine to be done from pictures. Thanks PS: I made a google Sheet here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XedmN2th5QCWxS4TwjlqNUmYf3ojyUeOGK4rs120LSc/edit?gid=0#gid=0 RE: Most Common Parts that remain missing from LDraw - Rene Rechthaler - 2025-01-08 Added category "electric/flexible", changed "Diplo"(typo) into "Minifig part", sorted some parts into categories... any way to auto-assign some categories according to the name? (Duplo/Scala)(Large Figure -> Constraction) |