777 Mip Cad

[Lewis Simmons]

All hail the jester of CAD drawings:D

Anyway...I started playing around in Google Sketchup today as tomorrow I will start designing the 787 MIP from pictures and common features with the 777. Later I will start the pedestal and overhead but I won't until I feel the MIP is close to perfect and is complete down to the last screw.

I spent a bit of time today on the 777 MIP below. Sorry but colours probably make it look horrible but it is impossible to get the colours perfect. Put a bit of detail into the display frames, no dzus, not any detail in buttons, no backlit text but it is 100% to scale...a part from the top part maybe, it looks a bit wrong.

Anyway didn't get this near to perfect because I'm not doing the 777...at the moment :D

Comments welcome.

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w100/vac3087/SketchUp2008-05-3121-04-34-56.jpg
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w100/vac3087/SketchUp2008-05-3121-04-41-85.jpg
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w100/vac3087/SketchUp2008-05-3121-04-53-40.jpg
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w100/vac3087/SketchUp2008-05-3121-05-06-59.jpg
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w100/vac3087/SketchUp2008-05-3121-05-26-26.jpg

[Trevor Hale]

Looks Good Lewis..

Trev

[ivar hestnes]

Looking very good Lewis

Keep the ball rolling:)

[Paul G]

Hi Lewis,

You're being modest. Most of us never get to visualize using 3D like that. Acknowledging that you're not building a 777, I probably will be. Do you have any measurements that you can upload, especially for instrument panels but also throttle, and fuselage? I found some technical drawings but the way they've written the measurements is like a quiz. All the info is there but you have to add, subtract then add again, then subtract, just to get a simple measurement.

Or are your 3D files portable in any way? I'm not sure I have anything to play them on but if they're in some kind of open source format, I'm sure I'll find something.

Thanks mister

Paul

[Lewis Simmons]

Im using Google Sketchup at the moment which is free but impossible to use for sending off to a company to build.

I'm designing the 787 MIP in a different program later today and I will post some images later.

I can send the file to you. If you PM me with your email, I will email it to you nice and easy and you can download google sketchup for free from google.

I do have a workbook but it is from http://www.project777.com/ in the downloads section so it will be easier to get it directly from there. You do have to do a bit of subtraction etc but not too much.

I guess later once I have done all my 787 stuff or when I have a free moment I will finish the 777 MIP and upload it into the download section for all.