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Subject:	TCLTC Layouts Rendered in Sketch-up
Newsgroups:	lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.cad
Date:	Mon, 4 Dec 2006 04:11:15 GMT
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I’m not sure how or why, but one day Ross started fiddling around with SketchUp and suddenly he’s rendering all of the iterations of the TLCTC layout. Apparently you can stretch pics across the 3D blank spaces, and you can get some cool results:

It is a quick way to CAD layouts, and the nice thing is that you can import your TrackDraw schematics right into SketchUp as well. Of course, these are simply snapshots of the layouts-- one can manipulate them 360 degrees to view at any angle with the program. It’s pretty wild for a graph paper guy like me! :-)

And Ross is going bonkers; now he is rendering our LEGO buildings to put on the layouts! Pics of those to come as he completes them!

I am finding this technique very helpful in planning out our future layouts, and it is a nice way to archive past layout versions, too.

JOHN

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		Re: TCLTC Layouts Rendered in Sketch-up
(...) That's very cool. I can't wait to see the finished product with the buildings. I've used CAD programs before to study the relationships between buildings on the (MichLTC) layout from various perspectives. Nothing as graphically fancy as what (...) (18 years ago, 4-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.cad, FTX)

		Re: TCLTC Layouts Rendered in Sketch-up
(...) This is definitely cool. It's a much clearer way to see the table layout than you can easily get from viewing a photo. I like the way the banners around the table look slightly rippled. Was that intentional, or is it just from using a photo of (...) (18 years ago, 4-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.cad, FTX)

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