Hello,
for me, in general, the idea is good and tends to simplify the work considerably because you don't have to invent a new shape for the sticker every time, but I'm afraid there are still problems standardizing it too much.
The advantage is above all to reduce the volume of the library because there are a lot of duplicates. (Many of them I made myself like the back of the stickers for 15068 or 11477).
Some food for thought:
- If we want to standardize the dimensions and tie them to a part, we must leave ourselves the possibility of using the same sticker box on different parts. For example, the sticker box used on the top face of 2431b, is also used for the vertical face of 3010 because it does not cover it completely.
- Scaling the boxes as Orion rightly indicates is not possible once you use the connecting radii because they would be deformed.
For formed stickers there is the problem of fold lines that also prevent scaling in the direction orthogonal to the fold.
- Even if it is a bit off topic, I also recommend that viewers consider replacing primitives in faces on which a sticker is attached, such as 93606c.
The small thickness of 0.25 is in some cases not able to cover the greater roundness of the surface on which the sticker is attached and it pops out ruining the effect of the sticker.
Note: selfishly, for the work I have done so far, the standard I have kept is different from the one proposed: 2LDU distance from the edge and 1.5LDU radius for the edges. In my opinion, these dimensions work very well. Better than 1LDU border and 1LDU radius that I have seen proposed by Chris Böhnke.
for me, in general, the idea is good and tends to simplify the work considerably because you don't have to invent a new shape for the sticker every time, but I'm afraid there are still problems standardizing it too much.
The advantage is above all to reduce the volume of the library because there are a lot of duplicates. (Many of them I made myself like the back of the stickers for 15068 or 11477).
Some food for thought:
- If we want to standardize the dimensions and tie them to a part, we must leave ourselves the possibility of using the same sticker box on different parts. For example, the sticker box used on the top face of 2431b, is also used for the vertical face of 3010 because it does not cover it completely.
- Scaling the boxes as Orion rightly indicates is not possible once you use the connecting radii because they would be deformed.
For formed stickers there is the problem of fold lines that also prevent scaling in the direction orthogonal to the fold.
- Even if it is a bit off topic, I also recommend that viewers consider replacing primitives in faces on which a sticker is attached, such as 93606c.
The small thickness of 0.25 is in some cases not able to cover the greater roundness of the surface on which the sticker is attached and it pops out ruining the effect of the sticker.
Note: selfishly, for the work I have done so far, the standard I have kept is different from the one proposed: 2LDU distance from the edge and 1.5LDU radius for the edges. In my opinion, these dimensions work very well. Better than 1LDU border and 1LDU radius that I have seen proposed by Chris Böhnke.