Designing a Depot

RedDogF5 Oct 7, 2021

  1. RedDogF5

    RedDogF5 New Member

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    Hi, I recently got back into modeling, and found I really enjoy watching modeling videos on Youtube. I decided to try my hand at it, and made this short video about designing and building a depot for my N scale layout. The parts are 3D printed, and the files are linked in the video description if you would like to build it too.
    If you do watch, I would appreciate feedback, either here or on YouTube. Things you like, don't like, would like to see more of or less of, and so on - I have found it harder than it looked to edit things to cover the topic without being ponderous. Thanks.
    Here is the video:
     
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  2. Sumner

    Sumner TrainBoard Member

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    Great video.

    I've used Fusion 360 a fair bit but obviously not as much as you have and haven't ventured into Blender yet. If I do I'll come back and look at this again. I'll be interested in seeing how the shingles print. I haven't been able to achieve that detail with my Ender 3 but also haven't tried a smaller nozzle.

    Looking forward to the next video,

    Sumner
     
  3. SLSF Freak

    SLSF Freak Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    That's awesome. I really like your approach to getting those shingles designed. The software I use for design I don't think can do all that (unless it can via scripting, something I don't mess with) But a while back I had a shingled structure and took a different approach, if not terribly useful it was at least an interesting experiment. Here's the structure:
    https://www.trainboard.com/highball...siding-and-wood-shingles.135588/#post-1165086

    So around the time I was designing that I had seen several lithophane videos where people converted their photos into a relief which, when 3D printed and held up to light, produced this really neat effect. That got me to thinking about these shingles. I found a hi-res image of a wood shingles roof texture and used an online lithophane app to turn the image into a 3D relief .stl file, stitched it together and sized it for my roof and viola. Super detailed shingles. There are two downsides to this though, first is that the resulting object has way too many facets (two or three hundred thousand if I remember for such a small area) which makes it almost impossible to work with using my anemic cpu and second, if you're not careful you could potentially reveal repeating patterns. I don't think I'd take that approach again but glad I tried it. I'd love to see something like what you did in a web app where you can spec out the shingle size, shingle type and total area needed, then bam - .stl ready for download. (y)

    Nice job on the video editing, too. Short enough to stay engaged and enough of the process covered to be informative.

    Cheers -Mike
     
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  4. RedDogF5

    RedDogF5 New Member

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    That shed is cool, great job on it! I've never heard of lithophane before, it looks similar to a "bump map" in 3D modeling, except they output the 3D data as a model instead of just using it for rendering. Thanks for sharing that, lots of places it could be useful.
     
  5. Grey One

    Grey One TrainBoard Supporter

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    Very nice. Extremely well explained and I really like the testing of several processes in the vid about glue and water. I took notes.
     

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