OleBoy
December 22nd, 2012, 11:22
I've a question for fellow modelers here in the member base that I hope someone can steer me the right direction.
I have a set of drawings that I want to use for creating a model. There are no dimensions anywhere, although they appear to be scaled fairly well.
The drawings are of a vehicle. Left, right, front, back and top views.
Common sense tells me to make a 6-sided rectangle and place the well trimmed side view on the right side, then continue by adding the other views to the remaining representative sides and scale as needed to match the right-side view.
It makes sense. Although adding both left and right sides and trying to model does not make sense. They are not CAD drawings of equal dimension.
So, stepping back and rethinking about things, I think my best plan of attack is to place the right-side-view, scale to size guestimate, and start modeling. Calculus with a micrometer is not necessary, although it would help if I searched for actual L/W/H dimensions wouldn't it? Then once I get the form of the right side pronounced, duplicate that side for the left-side and then set to the needed width for scale measurements. Or would it be best to extrude (push/pull) the right side over for the left side to retain form? Either way does the same thing. (What ever works?)
I have a set of drawings that I want to use for creating a model. There are no dimensions anywhere, although they appear to be scaled fairly well.
The drawings are of a vehicle. Left, right, front, back and top views.
Common sense tells me to make a 6-sided rectangle and place the well trimmed side view on the right side, then continue by adding the other views to the remaining representative sides and scale as needed to match the right-side view.
It makes sense. Although adding both left and right sides and trying to model does not make sense. They are not CAD drawings of equal dimension.
So, stepping back and rethinking about things, I think my best plan of attack is to place the right-side-view, scale to size guestimate, and start modeling. Calculus with a micrometer is not necessary, although it would help if I searched for actual L/W/H dimensions wouldn't it? Then once I get the form of the right side pronounced, duplicate that side for the left-side and then set to the needed width for scale measurements. Or would it be best to extrude (push/pull) the right side over for the left side to retain form? Either way does the same thing. (What ever works?)