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topic: 174Sketchup
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posted: 25 Sep 2007 00:21

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Cynric Williams
 
 

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I have been playing with google sketchup for drawing building plans, combined with the export dxf in templot I'm hoping to make a virtual model before starting construction. Although this may see a long winded approach I find that the drawing process helps me anticipate any snags I may encounter later:)
The attachment shows the engine shed roughly placed on the trackplan. More experiments to follow after i have drawn the goods shed and station!
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posted: 25 Sep 2007 02:26

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Martin Wynne
 
West Of The Severn - United Kingdom

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Hi Cynric,

Excellent! :)

Before exporting to DXF, you may want to untick generator settings > outline extension marks and then rebuild the background. This puts proper ends on the timbers in 3D.

You can change the timber thickness (to show just an inch above the ballast, perhaps) in real > timbering > timbering data... , but this is a template design change, and can only be made individually on the control template.

Other unwanted details can be omitted in the DXF dialog -- set the colour to none.

Off to play with Sketchup -- I didn't realise it had a DXF import.... :)

regards,

Martin.



posted: 26 Sep 2007 13:04

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its_all_downhill
 
North Yorkshire - United Kingdom

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Have to say Sketchup is my favourite App, apart from Templot of course, and was with it pretty my much from day one.. was funny when the focus switched from Macs to PC when I guess they realised that they could make a lot more money from it.. and then being taken over by Google must have been there nirvana. But I too use it for mocking ideas up and it is so easy to use you dont need to learn the near vertical learning curve of CAD.

Regards
Tom

posted: 26 Sep 2007 18:12

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Cynric Williams
 
 

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its_all_downhill wrote:
But I too use it for mocking ideas up and it is so easy to use you dont need to learn the near vertical learning curve of CAD.

Regards
Tom
That's the great thing it's so easy to use, i found that importing templot plans and then viewing them in perspective really gives a feel for how the track flows aswell

posted: 27 Sep 2007 03:30

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its_all_downhill
 
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Cynric,

and adding abit of colour and shadows really adds effect, maybe the new area would be a good place to post artistic interpretations. The only problem I have is making hills.. so I have to build them up like steps.

Regards
Tom



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