Scale Factor Notation for Miniatures
Shapeways has many items that are designed to be a miniature of some full-scale item, (and a few items that are enlargements of tiny items). I would like to propose a new "Field" on the models that indicates the scale of an item. This way, prospective buyers could filter for a specific scale item. I would suggest making it numeric, rather than names.. for example HO railroad scale is 1:87 but Wargame scale is often 1:300
I think this would assist buyers who often search based upon wanting a specific size.
Stony Smith
shared this idea
Hi all,
sorry for the wait. I discussed this with our team, but this is not something that’s on our short-term road map. However, our people suggested you might be able to use the Variants tool on our Labs page for this:
I’m closing this issue for now so I can return you your votes.
Cheers,
Bart
5 comments
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Dragoman
commented
Note that for most modelling fields, there are two types of scale notation. One is the numeric scale ( 1:87, 1:220 ) and a scale name, for example in railroad modelling H0, TT, N, Z etc. or for gaming figures the size of a human figure ( 15mm, 28mm, 12 cm etc.) . It would be best If the field could accomodate both types of entry.
In general a set of statandardized tags for the various categories sounds like a good idea
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stonysmith
commented
Yes, that is more in line with what I was originally thinking.
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Adminbartv
(Admin, Shapeways)
commented
Ok, maybe we could try to make this a bit more abstract and say that for each product (main) category, we could define one or more 'required' fields and field-types. For miniatures, 'scale', for jewelry-rings: 'ring size' etc?
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stonysmith
commented
First, there a LOT of miniatures being produced here on Shapeways. The field could also be used to hold other "scale" information such as Ring Size, Shoe Size etc.
Part of the idea is to make it a 'required' field for Miniatures... the use of descriptions and tags is too whimsical.. people very often don't bother, or they put conflicting information such as "HO Scale" versus "1:87"
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Adminbartv
(Admin, Shapeways)
commented
That may be a bit too specific as it would only be used in the 'Miniatures' category - it would remain unused everywhere else. I think it's better to properly include this in the description and to add a tag to your object indicating the size?
