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Better discoverability of part names/categories in the Part Browser

Better discoverability of part names/categories in the Part Browser

The part filtering feature is a bit of a guessing game.  Presently nothing in the application shows the names of the available 1000+ assets. For example, I'd never know that that those bracket-looking-thingies in the bottom row are called "Arm". Please add a toggle to display labels under each of the parts.  Here is a mock-up:

 

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2 Comments
sroselle
Community Manager
Status changed to: Gathering Support

Great idea @davidZLM5L.  However aside from a name, each part can actually have multiple categories associated with it (e.g. flat, panel, rounded, etc) what you think about displaying all relevant categories for each part somehow?  And if that would be useful how would you expect to see those displayed?

davidjmarks
Community Visitor

Thanks for the quick response. 

I don't need all the various categories, because the filtering works well enough -- as long as I have some clue about the name or properties. I can guess some things to filter like "wheel" or "cone" but there are other objects I've seen and would like to find again but have no idea how to filter for them.  

 

For example, there are some things with thumbnails that look like backpacks, baskets, and pottery jars. I can scroll until I see them in the browser, but I would rather have at least one name to filter for.  In this case, these were all in a category of "engines".  Go figure!  Specifically there is big flower pot thingy that I can quickly find again by filtering for a unique identifier "engine_housing_10". (I did some forensic work with a browser inspector to get details about the thumbnail in this case.)

 

Ideally, I'd love to see simple documentation that lets me browse or sort the full library of default kit parts quickly outside the app. The current parts browser reloads whenever I change the filter string, but it takes a lot of scrolling to cache all 1000+ parts. 

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