I don't have any good ideas for mass dumping of dimensions, but I'm interested in the feedback of this thread. For my homebrew, I'm just going in and taking relative dimensions using a ruler for little things (distance between pops, widths of ramp/or it openings, etc) of a fully populated game. I think it'd be great if the community could come up with a list or a wiki or something that had all of that information so we could make good choices and not just eyeball things (I'm an engineer so I like precision). Obviously there will be some variability between games or even within a game, but having those numbers while going through pf design would help so much. I had to basically scrap my pf design and start from scratch because I eyeballed the orbit size and realized I made them way too tight for my target audience of the younger kids in my family. Knowing those dimensions up front will allow a designer to say "this ramp should be an easy 2.5", this should be a tough 1 3/4", etc.

Is this the kind of thing you're looking for?

I'm assuming you've seen the files section over at pinball makers, http://pinballmakers.com/wiki/index.php/Files_Section that does have a few different lower playfield sections. Beyond that I frankly would not trust anything in FP or VP if you want accurate measurements. Some are made by people with obsession for details and have an original to measure, others are just based of photos stretched to whatever shape, others, who knows (and I've made many VPX tables). Other wise the high res scan you have of MB would probably be a pretty good starting point.

The other opinion I have on the matter would be to make it in VPX instead of FP, then you can actually play it with somewhat realistic physics. Others may have a different opinion

When starting my latest design I wanted to base the general dimensions off T2, as it always felt like a very solid bottom layout, but I couldn't find any good measurements either. Would definitely be nice to have. The 'WPC' bottom on pinballmakers looks nice, but I don't know what game it's from. I'd love to know how similar different Steve Ritchie flipper + sling layouts are. Does he have a 'perfected' layout he just stamps down when starting a new design? How has it evolved over the years?

Besides from just 'copy a playfield you like', there's a ton of subtle variance in different games that'd be cool to explore. I've started measuring flipper gaps on my games when I've got the glass off and there's much more of a variance than I would have guessed... Stuff like AFM's sling placement making it hard to post pass would also be really cool to have more theory on, along with even simpler stuff like just an overlay 'fan' of what paths the ball takes from the flippers both from a cradle and from a 'controlled' drop from a ramp down the inlane so you could do stuff like purposely place a shot in a way where it's not/only hittable on the fly

I might try to just extract the playfield scan from the table, and then base measurements off that. Should be safe enough if you can find some common shape to scale off of.

Are you interested in selling your Shaq playfield? I’m hoping to swap mine out now that I have it stripped. LMK

XTN