LDraw Part Naming Styleguide

[Peter Blomberg]

I think a plate is only ⅓ of a brick. The ⅔ part is a brick (since bricks can be multiple bricks high, why not a fraction of a brick?—you could also find the need to describe a ½ height brick). Honestly, this part feels like a cheat and I wish we didn't have to categorize it at all!

Well, there are also parts like 99206 which are 2 plates high and typically categorized as a plate. One third is also a fraction...

I think it's possible to find the right definition for wedge, but I wonder if it couldn't be dispensed with altogether. Are all wedges also describable as slopes?

Not possible to dispense with altogether. While the vertical shape of a wedge is easily described as a slope, the horizontal shape is that of a wedge, i.e. angled cut from opposite sides. A wedge is a subtype of slope since there aren't any pieces that are wedges, but not slopes. Here, you might find a parallel to your argument for 'arch'.

Yeah, I'm not crazy about this as a category, nor as a term of art in general for LEGO when being dealt with in any scholarly fashion. Though it's gained widespread use (even within official TLG literature), it's just "gross" enough that it seems like it should remain in the informal canon of AFOL terminology.

Agree with the theory of this (parts that serve as direction-changers for the studded surface). But if including bricks, "bracket" is no longer ideal as it suggests a form that doesn't match these bricks at all. And this is a case where function is a better categorizing aspect than form.

'SNOT pieces' include brackets, bricks with studs on the side, and plates with studs on the side. It would indeed be valuable to have them separated from the other bricks and plates not having studs on the side. However, I would not feel comfortable having SNOT without brackets.