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Post by jeffgeorge on Sept 22, 2016 18:49:56 GMT -9
I'm currently writing assembly instructions for my tile set, and I need to refer to the printed out image of the tile on cardstock before it's been assembled or even folded. Is there a papercrafty term for the flat, printed item you have after you cut it out from the cardstock sheet, but before you assemble it into the intended product?
Anyone? Bueller?
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 22, 2016 19:09:41 GMT -9
I believe you are looking for 'template'
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Post by lightning on Sept 22, 2016 20:45:15 GMT -9
(prepared) part? (cut out) tile?
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Post by cowboyleland on Sept 22, 2016 20:51:19 GMT -9
IMO: "Piece" before folding and "Part" after. i.e. "Cut out all the pieces of the model. Take piece #1, score and fold where indicated. Glue tab A to tab B and affix this part under the wing (etc.)"
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Post by jeffgeorge on Sept 22, 2016 21:16:46 GMT -9
Hmm...thanks for the input, but none of those feels quite right to me. Maybe I wasn't clear enough about the thing I'm looking to name...
The simplest tile in my set is a field tile--a 2-by-2 square, with no walls, all four sides open to adjacent squares. To assemble it, you basically glue a foamcore square into the middle of the unprinted side of the [thing I'm trying to name], and wrap the four side tabs around it and glue them in place on the bottom side of the tile. In the end, the top face of the foamcore and all four side faces are covered with printed cardstock, and the underside has the ends of the four tabs glued to it.
So what I need a name for is the printed, flat cardstock sheathing that will eventually wrap the piece of foamcore, before it's been assembled. "Template" doesn't seem right, because it's a component, not a guide for making something (maybe there's a meaning for 'template' that I'm not familiar with, tho...). "Piece" doesn't convey the sense of flatness I'm looking for (wow, I'm a fussy bastage...). And "part" doesn't apply because the assembly is so simple, and involves only two components, that there's never really any 'parts' along the way--you've got a hunk of foamcore and a cardstock cut-out and then BOOM it's a finished tile...
I've called the thing I'm talking about a "cardstock shape" a couple of times in the instruction text now, and that only kind of makes sense. Oh well, this is a first draft anyway...lots of time to refine the text in beta...
Thanks for the input so far, and for anything else anyone has to add.
--Jeff
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Post by shep on Sept 22, 2016 23:43:46 GMT -9
Proto-tile?
Since it basically is the finished tile that only needs the foamcore core to be completed.
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Post by glennwilliams on Sept 23, 2016 6:01:53 GMT -9
I think if the text accompanies an illustration, "piece" is fine.
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 23, 2016 6:26:01 GMT -9
or 'tile piece'
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Post by cowboyleland on Sept 23, 2016 6:41:49 GMT -9
I think in that case "piece" before folding and foamcore and "tile" after.
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Post by jeffgeorge on Sept 23, 2016 7:19:13 GMT -9
Thanks for all the input, gang. I'm trying to finish up the instructions this afternoon, so I can share the file tonight. Wish me luck!
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Post by Vermin King on Sept 23, 2016 8:01:05 GMT -9
Good luck
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Post by jeffgeorge on Sept 23, 2016 19:40:38 GMT -9
Twelve hours later, and I'm still working on the PDF. I have learned so much about Scribus today, I think I could write a book about it...but then I'd have to lay it out in Scribus, and I just don't think I could take that at the moment. I'm still hoping to get a version of the PDF posted before I go to bed, but that means it will be a late night...
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Post by jeffgeorge on Sept 24, 2016 0:36:41 GMT -9
OK, the .pdf of the build-test/playtest version of the Dungeons of Olde tile system is available. Thanks for the help getting it ready, everyone!
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Post by Christopher Roe on Sept 24, 2016 10:42:51 GMT -9
I'm a bit late to this party, and this terminology probably won't work 100% for tiles, but the term for an unfolded piece of geometry on screen or on paper is a "net", which consists of faces or panels and glue tabs or flaps, and I consider the terms "piece" and "part" to be interchangeable. A combined unit of parts is an "assembly", such as a nose assembly or a tail assembly.
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Post by cowboyleland on Sept 24, 2016 17:04:18 GMT -9
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