Author:  SylvainLS  Posted:  Apr 7, 2023 06:44  Subject:  Re: New number perhaps?  Viewed:  30 times  Topic:  Catalog Requests Cancel Reply

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In Catalog Requests, Stellar writes:    […] C is for constant, aka the part that remains the same and is used as the prefix ID: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=168 Er, not really. The way “constant” is used in the help page, it refers to the prefix letter(s): — ‘C’ is the constant letter preceding an assembly sequential number, — ‘P’, ‘PB’, ‘PX’ are the constant letters preceding a pattern sequential number. So ‘C’ is not for “constant,” it is a constant (“Prefix” may be better than “constant”… even if they are prefixes of suffixes ) I wasn’t there when ‘C’ was chosen and besides common sense, the only official reference to what ‘C’ stands for in assembly IDs I know of is in LDraw: “Shortcut files used when several separate parts are typically delivered from LEGO pre-assembled or are frequently used in combination. These are numbered using the official LEGO number for the composite part, if known, or by appending cNN to the part number of one of the individual parts.” (my emphasis) — https://www.ldraw.org/part-number-spec.html (Yes, could as well be “combination” or even “(short)cut” If you read further, you’ll also see LDraw is using ‘K’ for flexible parts components and ‘-F’ for formed, flexed, folded, or otherwise transformed parts ) But maybe there’s an old discussion about it on lugnet or in someone’s memory?

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Re: New number perhaps? - Stellar (3524)

[...] C is for constant, aka the part that remains the same and is used as the prefix ID: (URL) pb is Pattern Bricklink (14 months ago, Apr 7, 2023, to Catalog Requests)

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Re: New number perhaps? - wildchicken13 (876)

[...] C is for Cookie: (URL) (14 months ago, Apr 7, 2023, to Catalog Requests)

Re: New number perhaps? - randyf (442)

[...] [...] ^This. "Combination" is what I always took the "c" to stand for in assembly item numbers. You have a base part that is used in combination with [...] (14 months ago, Apr 7, 2023, to Catalog Requests)

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