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Stickers with identical design, but from different sheet number - Massimo Maso - 2025-07-30
Hello,
how do we handle stickers with identical design, but with different sheet numbers?
This is the case with:
Sticker 1.8 x 1.8 Chequered
and
Red "PORSCHE" on Black Background Sticker
For the first we have a lot of alias of the original part 6142617z: 6141875d, 6142271p, 6148328a, 6221655aj, 617973o and 6221805ah.
Some official, others in the process of being approved.
Each file shows the name of a different sheet and the keywords that refer to the set.
This seems correct to me, otherwise the reference to the single sheet is lost. If I look at the list of stickers on a sheet, it seems that some are missing.
it's a bit like the symmetrical stickers of the same sheet. Both are saved, even if it would be enough to mirror them when drawing the assembly set.
For the second we have two sets (flat sticker, formed sticker and part with sticker applied): 6221655i and 18972dy3, 6097428ao and 18972dy5.
At the moment they are copies and not aliases but it will be remedied soon.
The questions are:
- Do we keep aliases even for shortcuts even if they appear identical? Or can 18972dy5 be deleted and can its keywords be moved to 18972dy3?
- Do we continue to make the aliases of the parts or do we add the keywords in a single reference part? And, for each new set that uses this part, should we modify the single official part to add the keywords to the new set.
RE: Stickers with identical design, but from different sheet number - Orion Pobursky - 2025-07-30
An otherwise identical part but with a different number should be an Alias of the original part, as you suggest.
RE: Stickers with identical design, but from different sheet number - Magnus Forsberg - 2025-07-31
(2025-07-30, 21:49)Orion Pobursky Wrote: An otherwise identical part but with a different number should be an Alias of the original part, as you suggest.
Do you have any opinion on the second question?
RE: Stickers with identical design, but from different sheet number - Orion Pobursky - 2025-07-31
I guess I don't understand the question because I feel my reply answered both.
RE: Stickers with identical design, but from different sheet number - Magnus Forsberg - 2025-07-31
(Yesterday, 15:19)Orion Pobursky Wrote: I guess I don't understand the question because I feel my reply answered both.
Check this:
18972dy3 is identical to 18972dy5.
The sticker in dy5 is an alias of the sticker in dy3 (or will be soon).
We don't make alias parts when the same printed pattern is in many sets, so why should we do it with stickered parts?
RE: Stickers with identical design, but from different sheet number - Orion Pobursky - 2025-07-31
I see now.
We have 2 competing interests:
- Library compactness
- User expectations/searchability
Normally I would side with the latter but you make a good point about patterns.
Another thing to consider is that both the sticker sheet index and the PBG generator pull all the sticker shortcuts associated with the sticker sheet, not a set. This, however, could be changed.
Thoughts?