Parts to be renamed?
2011-10-30, 11:08 (This post was last modified: 2011-10-31, 22:36 by Tim Gould.)
2011-10-30, 11:08 (This post was last modified: 2011-10-31, 22:36 by Tim Gould.)
Hi All,
I was looking for the 6 x 6 tile today (6881a/b) and was surprised to see it wasn't in the library. Or rather, after doing some sniffing, I discovered it wasn't a 'tile'. It was a 'Scala tile'.
This seems rather wrong to me and got me wondering if there weren't other parts with strange naming. Does anyone else know of any?
Perhaps someone can correct me if I'm wrong but I believed that part names should generally be descriptive of form and function, not of the line they appear in (aside from prints).
Tim
PS. Which isn't to single out the part authors. It is the name Peeron uses which are traditionally the source of LDraw parts. I simply think it is wrong for LDraw.
I was looking for the 6 x 6 tile today (6881a/b) and was surprised to see it wasn't in the library. Or rather, after doing some sniffing, I discovered it wasn't a 'tile'. It was a 'Scala tile'.
This seems rather wrong to me and got me wondering if there weren't other parts with strange naming. Does anyone else know of any?
Perhaps someone can correct me if I'm wrong but I believed that part names should generally be descriptive of form and function, not of the line they appear in (aside from prints).
Tim
PS. Which isn't to single out the part authors. It is the name Peeron uses which are traditionally the source of LDraw parts. I simply think it is wrong for LDraw.