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Old 01-23-2013, 07:51 AM   #1
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Default Designing scratch builds - Sketch-Up and other s/ware

Give me graph paper ....... pencil ...... rulers etc. - I'm quite a dab hand at drawing up a potential design. I can posterize / scale a PDF print ...

But I am totally lacking in CAD skills. I have had AutoCAD2000 on one PC ... blew me away ! DraftSight from Dassault was downloaded so I could view various freebie plans online ... never could sort that out ... and I read various posts of people using Google Sketch-up to produce plans ... which I tried in it's early days and failed miserably.

What am I looking for ? I've now re-downloaded Sketch-up and will try again ... leads me to ask if anyone out bthere thought about sharing sketch-up files to help idiots like me get started ?.

Lets say i wanted to build a Tiger Moth ... maybe someoone out there has a similar sketch-up file ... that can be passed on to provide a starting point for another to work on for own style ?

Also pointers to make use easier ?

Interested to hear others views on this ...

Nigel

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