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winston   Registered Member #1 Joined: Sat Jun 13 2009, 02:08pmPosts: 2298 | Okay, this is just a brief overview of what I think we need, so all comments, suggestions etc. are definitely welcome.
The main goal of the project is to develop drawings which can be used immediately for the purposes of building a model or drawings suitable for developing modeling drawings from.
From the plans I have seen so far, at this point it is hard to lay down a specific set of guidelines as to what exactly is needed.
Perhaps developing some general categories and sub-categories should be the first step in the process. Then, someone can look at a set of plans and determine what category they would most easily fit into with the least amount of work. once they fit into a given category, if someone wishes to further develop them into something more, the updated drawings can be added at a later date. These are the categories that jump out to me at present.
Tracings - these are scans of drawings that need to be traced in CAD before we can make use of them.
Basic Lines Drawings - Contains the three most common drawings: Sheer/Profile plan, half-breadth plan, Body/Section plan
POF - Full model - Hull only model
POB - Full model - Hull only model
Cross Section Models
Final Formats:
- CAD - there's various software out there so we should probably decide on one that is compatible with most or all. To my limited knowledge that would be DWG & DXF.
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| bbrockel |
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  Registered Member #1520 Joined: Sat Mar 12 2011, 04:39pmPosts: 140 | Winston, what catagory would you put cross section plans, i.e. Bomb Vessel, Echo, Triton, etc.? Down the road, as my skills improve, I was thing about buying the plan sets from Model Expo for the Connie, Victory or Santisima. I like these model types because of their finished size. Won't need to move into a bigger house to house several full size models. | ||
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| Winston |
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| winston Registered Member #1 Joined: Sat Jun 13 2009, 02:08pmPosts: 2298 | Hi Bob, I guess cross section models would warrant a category of their own. Will add it to the list. | ||
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