Contraptor

Naming principles and listing of "official" Contraptor components. This is currently under development.

Naming

Considerations:

• name should identify each component uniquely without ambiguities
• name should be human-readable or have human-readable part (when inserting components in Sketchup, search results are icon + name)
• name should be immune/tolerant to structural/hierarchical changes introduced by new components
• name should be easily parsed by a machine

Compound components: these consist of several atomic components. Some atomic components are screws and bearings (where industry name/part# could be used), others are fabricated from angle/tube. Tying the name of such child components to parent may not always work if the child is used in more than one compound parent component. On the other hand, majority of "children" have only one "parent".

Proposed naming conventions

human-readable-name-#CCC-99s-Mr
where
CCC - component name, capital letters (AAA-ZZZ)
99 - component size, numbers (00-99)
s - system indicator - i(nch) or m(etric)
M - modification, for example D(IY), L(asercut), option A, option B (A-Z)
r - revision of design, small letter (a-z)

Component nomenclature