Cananea Ore Bins
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Minias Bin
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MY VERSION
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REFINED – A BIT
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THE ‘WHY’ OF SKETCHUP
In Sketchup you can set up the scale to print. Example .. you can set 1 inch in in the printout and 1 inch in Sketchup where you will get a print exactly the same as you created in Sketchup. IF I had drawn the bin full size then I would simply set 12 inches in Sketchup and .25 inches in the printout for 1:48 .. if I wanted plans in HO then I would set it to .138 inches in the printout. Converting from full-scale – say 12 inches to a foot in your scale simply divided 12 by the scale. Example: 12/160 = .075 inches. In my case I changed the camera from ‘Perspective’ to ‘Parallel Projection’ and ‘Standard View’ to ‘Front’. I could then set the print so 1/4″ in the printout equaled 1/4″ in Sketchup (I had drawn this to 1:48 scale) and I had plans I could work directly off of. |
I am building a 4×8 On30 narrow gauge railroad with an On18 narrow gauge mining tram serving some local mines. I wondered how to build the ore bins for the transfer site. Your plans have given me thought as to what they should look like. Seeing old bins on the various mine exploration channels on YouTube helps, but when other modelers show what they’ve done helps better.
Douglas,
Let me get caught up a bit and I will export the plans so they can be downloaded. I had planned to do that but .. well .. I forgot. One of the cool things I love about using Sketchup is I can do that pretty easily for any scale. Since we both model On30 that is even easier.
Thanks, I follow a few On30 modelers on YouTube and seriously got the bug. I am re-purposing a framework meant a copy of the Jerome and Southwestern. I decided to switch to On30 because though it won’t look right at first I have lots of HO track to use to get started. I’ve bookmarked you site on my laptop.