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Need ideas for modeling insides of warehouses or enclosed structures
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I guess that at least 50% of modellers don't work in manufacturing... which means that all those interesting factory shapes contain nothing but unknown mysteries for us. I recently spen t a couple of years in the "Real World" (My brother's description) outside the railway. <br />I learnt the following lessons:- <br />The railway works by the 1/2 minute. <br /> We may be 19 hours late (a friend of mine's photo af an Amtrak crossing the <br /> diamonds at Big Sandy Tx... it started in New York.... I put it in my ticket window to <br /> cheer up the commuters) BUT we do know how late we are. That way we can scrub and start again or plan a catch-up schedule. <br /> <br />"Real World" industries don't necessarily know which month they're in... especially if the job is marked "URGENT"... unless it's the chemical industry... which is fantastic to work in. <br /> <br />"Security" gets the second lowest budget to "Waste and Recycling". <br /> <br />HOWEVER... <br /> <br />The bad news is that factory insides are full of lots of small unique details and machines that would take decades to model if they are to look right. <br /> <br />THE GOOD NEWS is... that most transport links are warehose facilities... the product is moved internally from various manufacturing sources to managed storage (which may be temperature controlled). These days this mainly contains aisles of racking worked by fork lift trucks and/or picking machines. Where there is a rail link the cars are loaded by the fork lifts... this started far earlier in the US than here... and brought about the changes in car door sizes from the 4' single doors of the steam era to the 8' and bigger doors of modern cars. <br />Load ramps do require one significant action... remove them before pulling the cars out... it makes a bit of a mess if you forget. <br /> <br />Most tanks and hoppers are discharged and loaded outside or only under shelter which allows plenty of ventilation. this avoids build up of gases (including fumes off of liquids). As anything fine powdered or liquid is usually piped there is also little need (except for very specific products) to load or discharge in a building which costs money to build and maintain. Grains and fertiliser discharging to silos seem to do so under lean-to shelters or in the open. The only real need is to keep off heavy rain. <br /> <br />Well, I guess that's good news if you like pallet racking and don't want to spend days modelling small machines.
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