(2022-01-20, 6:32)Orion Pobursky Wrote: Example (Look at https://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptweekly.cgi#2010-04-05 for more)
https://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.c.../4186h.dat
Should these parts exist? I say no but would like to have a discussion before I delete.
I don't do any building, so take my comments with a grain of salt.
I personally feel that having them available is useful. Creations can exist where baseplates aren't used as baseplates. In those cases, having the bottom be modeled would presumably be very useful. I don't feel that these match any other precedents in the library, though. So the "h" suffix could be perfectly fine, although not indicating that they have a modeled bottom in the part name seems wrong to me.
But I very much don't like Steffen's suggestions in the review. First, I feel that this is something that should be controlled by the modeler, not the viewer, and second, his suggestion to treat them like low-res studs would greatly increase the complexity of the flat bottom of the normal baseplate parts, which I feel would be very bad.