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 Author: Miro78 View Messages Posted By Miro78
 Posted: May 25, 2020 11:40
 Subject: Need of Plate/Tile Round Modified categories
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If this is on the Catalog roadmap, my apologies, but I am noticing some logic
discrepancies on how some of these parts are allocated to their current categories.

Fo obvious reasons, part 25269 (Tile, Round 1 x 1 Quarter) is in the Tile Round
category, because 4 of these makes a nice circle shape.

 
Part No: 25269  Name: Tile, Round 1 x 1 Quarter
* 
25269 Tile, Round 1 x 1 Quarter
Parts: Tile, Round

Therefore I am assuming Part 24246 (Tile, Modified 1 x 1 Half Circle Extended
(Stadium)) is in the Tile Modified category because it's irregular and makes
no circle shape, despite one side being round.

 
Part No: 24246  Name: Tile, Round 1 x 1 Half Circle Extended
* 
24246 Tile, Round 1 x 1 Half Circle Extended
Parts: Tile, Round

Yet part 39739 (Tile, Round 1 x 1 Heart) is in the Tile Round category, despite
the fact that it makes no circular shape (clover leaf shape at best). To me,
they should either be in the Tile Round or Tile Modified as it's confusing
things.

 
Part No: 39739  Name: Tile, Round 1 x 1 Heart
* 
39739 Tile, Round 1 x 1 Heart
Parts: Tile, Round

There are other parts in the Tile Round category which are clearly modified like

 
Part No: 20482  Name: Tile, Round 1 x 1 with Bar and Pin Holder
* 
20482 Tile, Round 1 x 1 with Bar and Pin Holder
Parts: Tile, Round
 
Part No: 2376  Name: Tile, Round 2 x 2 with Lifting Ring Thin
* 
2376 Tile, Round 2 x 2 with Lifting Ring Thin
Parts: Tile, Round

This is also true for Plate Round category items. Perhaps it's time to create
Plate Round Modified and Tile Round Modified categories. There may be reason
for not doing this now, but things like this really bug me when searching for
parts where my logic fails to find them, usually parts falling into 2 or 3 categories
due to vague nature of classification.

Miro