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Posted by upacific1862 on Monday, March 23, 2015 5:12 AM

Thanks all for your help.

I would like to copy some buildings from 1850 years to 1960 decade.

I use AutoCAD to cut the result in "laser". I know SolidWorks but for me and at the moment AutoCAD is enought.

Sometiems MRR publish every month some drawings of buildings. I would like to have more than this but in a website.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Alex

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Posted by upacific1862 on Monday, March 23, 2015 4:39 AM

Right Dave, sorry for that. I would like to design some buildings plans for H0 and N scales.

 

Regards,

Alex

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Posted by delray1967 on Sunday, March 22, 2015 11:04 PM

Find plans for a specific building or find a copy of AutoCAD? I used CATIA and Solidworks at my last job...my local community college has AutoCAD. Maybe try a local college? Some students might do it for free or a small fee (or a 12 pack of their favorite beverage.lol).

There are a few free drawing programs out there if you want to do it yourself...Google Draw? If it doesn't need to be exactly to a precision scale, MS Paint might be good enough...it all depends on what you want to do (specific project, scale, era...etc). The more info you give here, the more likely you are able to find what you are looking for...There are professionals from many different fields in this hobby; if you're looking for architectural advice, I'm certain there are a few architects that are willing to help, being specific will help them help you. :)

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Posted by Steven S on Sunday, March 22, 2015 10:33 AM

If you're doing plans for a building (i.e. a structure) it might be easier just to do them in Inkscape.  Go into Document Properties and set the grid size to 3.5mm (assuming you're in HO scale).   Then each little square will be one scale foot in size.

 

Steve S

 

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Posted by hon30critter on Sunday, March 22, 2015 5:46 AM

Hi Alex:

Just a suggestion - you might get better responses if you were a bit more specific about what type of plans you are working on, i.e. track plans, structure plans, rolling stock perhaps...?

Dave

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Buildings Plans
Posted by upacific1862 on Sunday, March 22, 2015 4:24 AM

Hi all,

I need to build some plans in AutoCAD and I would like if somebody can help me with some pages to find it.

Thanks a lot,

Alex

pirineuscalemodels - H0 and N USA scale models

www.pirineuscalemodels.com

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