Saturday, February 27, 2016

Some advance.

all tables are now attached to each other.
Started cutting the plywood.
Cookie cutting time.


Friday, February 26, 2016

Cookie cutter

Finally started cookie cutting plywood...
Disappoint at the quality of the plywood I got.
But moving forward

Monday, February 22, 2016

from CAD to real world

Transferring my computer-generated track layout to the plywood is proving to me more difficult than I thought. The CAD program didn't print the center of the 22", 33" radius used... having to use some old fashioned "find the center of a circle" technique...
Maybe i should just glue the paper tracks to the plywood and cut it using it as a guide (we do that on model airplanes)_





Wednesday, February 17, 2016

FreeCAD blues

My favorite free 3D CAD system is being mean to me. For the life of me I'm cannot figure out how to model the track bed in 3D !

I think this can be done ... I just can't figure it out!





Monday, February 15, 2016

Track Templates 1

Got the printout of my CAD track design.

Will use this to create templates for the elevated bed tracks.





Printed Layout

Printed the track layout at a local architects blue-print service.
$19.00 to print three 36"x120" sheets.

Busy Sunday

Sunday was too busy to accomplish much. Still working on making all legs L-beams