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Stratford Old Town in SketchUp

Focalplane

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blog-0784457001420376411.pngIn an earlier post I discussed Arthur Jordan's definitive book on the S&MJR and showed a quick attempt at using the floor plan of Stratford Old Town Station for a SketchUp 3D model. Since then I have progressed slowly up the learning curve and have realized that I need to keep things simple for the time being. So, no interiors this time round.

 

As well as Jordan's book, the good old reliable warickshirerailways.com site provides numerous photos of various vintages, including one or two in colour:

 

http://warwickshirerailways.com/lms/smjsa174.htm

 

The entire structure is long (except for part of the platform edge) so this is what I have to work with.

 

First I loaded a scan of the floor plan into the xy plane of SketchUp and scaled it to match the dimension quoted:

 

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The progress so far is shown here:

 

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No canopy, no chimneys, no windows in place. In fact the details are largely lacking at the moment. But it has been rewarding to create a virtual station that no longer exists in reality.

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alanbuttler

Looking good, this is the best way I think to start to learn the program.  I did similar with a signal box and through that process learnt many time saving techniques to employ in future designs.  I'd suggest for anything that you will be using more than one of, windows for example or doors, make them components.  Anything else make groups so they don't interfere with other geometry near them as you move things around.  Will you be planning to laser cut this building?

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Focalplane

Looking good, this is the best way I think to start to learn the program.  I did similar with a signal box and through that process learnt many time saving techniques to employ in future designs.  I'd suggest for anything that you will be using more than one of, windows for example or doors, make them components.  Anything else make groups so they don't interfere with other geometry near them as you move things around.  Will you be planning to laser cut this building?

 

Hi Alan

 

No laser cutting yet, I don't have the space for Old Town.  Perhaps one day. . . .  just part of the research and learning process.  I have made some components and groups as well but sometimes they didn't work so well.

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