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File naming convention for part 87079? - Peter Grass - 2025-10-07
The naming convention for part 87079 seems to start off being hexadecimal and then kinda goes random but there are gaps like there is no 87079PC or PD, PE, PJ to L etc. So what number am I supposed to use? Should I just fill one of the gaps?
RE: File naming convention for part 87079? - Orion Pobursky - 2025-10-07
Pattern Codes are pXX where XX is 0-1a-z so the full range goes from 00 to zz (note: by convention we tend to not use 00).
Once there used to be meaning in the codes but that's been retired so just use the first available in the sequence. For 87079 that would be p0r.
RE: File naming convention for part 87079? - Rene Rechthaler - 2025-10-07
https://www.ldraw.org/part-number-spec.html under "Patterned Part Code" has a list of themes and their respective digits.
But as Orion stated, that list is quite old and a bit outdated...
(we can use it if possible, but if a letter is already full we can just use any free letters, as long it follows the pXX, and if this is also full, extend it to pXXXX)
and your part (87079p0r.dat) isnt that specific to star wars (prX or psX), its rather geometric, so the p0r is ok.