Author:  SchmickBricks  Posted:  Mar 12, 2019 08:16  Subject:  Re: Search for parts without dimensions  Viewed:  32 times  Topic:  Suggestions Cancel Reply

BrickLink ID Card SchmickBricks (5943) Location:  Australia, South Australia Member Since Contact Type Status Jan 10, 2016 Seller Store: Schmick Bricks

In Suggestions, jennnifer writes:    In Suggestions, SchmickBricks writes:    Can we please have an option to search our inventory for items without dimensions in the catalogue? There is already an option to search for items without a catalogue weight or items that won't work with instant checkout, but it won't help with finding items that are set as weight bound by default with no dimensions (Curved train track, some rollercoaster track) which are potentially too big to send in a letter. Prohibiting new sets from being inventoried without all the parts having weights and dimensions would be a big help too, providing users don't add arbitrary values which seems to be the case for 99% of instruction books at the moment. There are more than 20,000 items in the catalog without dimensions. Catalog dimensions are only added when the item fits within the normal stud/brick height system. https://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?v=3&itemDim=0 1x1 brick: dimensions are 1x1x1 in studs minifig torso: ?    If it can't be reasonably measured in studs vs brick height, a part will have no data at all. Hope that helps, Jen No, that doesn't help at all. Why can't sellers have an option to search their inventory for items without dimensions so we can add our own? Unfortunately there are a lot of items in the catalogue without dimensions that have been set by default as weight bound rather than volume bound that can't (In Australia at least) be sent as a large letter as they will exceed the 20mm maximum thickness. This wasn't as big an issue in the past, but now with instant checkout it is. Why should it matter if an item does or doesn't fit within the normal stud/brick height system? Surely the main purpose of dimensions is for calculating postage costs? It's not that difficult to pull out a ruler or tape measure and measure something. I'm happy to do it myself to my own inventory, just give me the option to search for items that don't have catalogue dimensions like we can for items without weight.

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Re: Search for parts without dimensions - jennnifer (3537)

[...] There are more than 20,000 items in the catalog without dimensions. Catalog dimensions are only added when the item fits within the normal stud/brick height system. [...] (64 months ago, Mar 11, 2019, to Suggestions)

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Re: Search for parts without dimensions - jennnifer (3537)

[...] First, I didn't make this system and I would certainly NEVER defend it. I was just trying to explain some the details. Second, you can absolutely look up parts [...] (64 months ago, Mar 12, 2019, to Suggestions)

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 Msg 1 - SchmickBricks (5943) 64 months ago Mar 11, 2019 to Suggestions
 Msg 2 - jennnifer (3537) 64 months ago Mar 11, 2019 to Suggestions
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 Msg 4 - jennnifer (3537) 64 months ago Mar 12, 2019 to Suggestions
 Msg 5 - Etown (1740) 64 months ago Mar 12, 2019 to Suggestions
 Msg 6 - jennnifer (3537) 64 months ago Mar 13, 2019 to Suggestions
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 Msg 9 - SchmickBricks (5943) 64 months ago Mar 13, 2019 to Suggestions
 Msg 10 - Etown (1740) 64 months ago Mar 14, 2019 to Suggestions
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 Msg 17 - cosmicray (3498) 64 months ago Mar 12, 2019 to Suggestions
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