Unseen TOS....

[MGagen]

I wouldn’t say I’m “experimenting” with SketchUp given the results I can get out of it. But I will check out MoI3D. Of course, it has to work with Mac and be optimized for Apple Silcon or it won’t work for me.

…Okay, it can be used for Mac, but I haven’t found it if it’s optimized for Apple Silicon yet.

Looks like I misinterpreted a SketchUp comment about starting over after losing your Mac. I don't intend to throw shade on your results, which are excellent!

RE: MoI -- The current version runs perfectly on my work M1 Studio, and on my home M2 Mac Mini.

M.

 

[Warped9]

Looks like I misinterpreted a SketchUp comment about starting over after losing your Mac. I don't intend to throw shade on your results, which are excellent!

RE: MoI -- The current version runs perfectly on my work M1 Studio, and on my home M2 Mac Mini.

M.

Good to know.

Yeah, my sister accidentally allowed my 2011 iMac to get hauled away by Got Junk when we were clearing out my mother’s house after she passed away. Fortunately before that happened I had transferred everything to my then new M3 iMac on which SketchUp Pro runs very well, much better than it did on my old 2011.

But losing my old iMac did cost me some things: I lost my Adobe CS4 (which wouldn’t run on my M3) and I’m not paying Adobe’s stupid subscriptions. So I’m looking at alternatives such as Affinity Pro or Pixelmator Pro which are reasonable one time purchase licences.

I also lost my perfectly good optical drive and the new iMacs (like so many computers today) don’t have a built-in optical drive. So at some point I’ll have to pick up an external disc drive.

 

[publiusr]

Guys, you’re all right that technically, the Leif was not meant to be a Trek ship. But it WAS designed by Jefferies, it WAS meant to follow the two iconic Trek models, and it DID incorporate the same “submarine in space” logic Jefferies used for the DY-100. I would think his intention was for it to be an Earth design from somewhat later. Not as advanced as the ringship but more advanced than the DY-100.

I could see that as an in-system craft.
The core even looks a bit like the DS9 Defiant.

 

[Richard Baker]

When Larry Niven was writing the novel 'The Mote in God's Eye' he had a model of the Leif Ericson sitting on his desk. The books description of the MacArthur is based on the model, right down to the large swinging bay doors.

I really like the design, had an original kit with the record and eventually lost it, got the UFO edition later on which I will see what my current techniques will do with it....

 

[MGagen]

Mote is one of my all time favorite SF novels. And the Leif is the basis of MacArthur. The only adjustment is that it would have a more circular cross section. Less flat and whisky bottle shaped. The hangar doors would bulge more so they would present a "flat" surface under spin gravity.

 

[Warped9]

Still here, folks, and haven’t forgotten. But something new has come to my attention. Something that could be very interesting, to me anyway.

So we all know about 3D printers, but what I hadn’t known until very recently is how affordable these things have become. It’s no longer astronomical and accessible just to people with money to burn. What this means to me is that some of my designs could actually be done in physical form because my program SketchUp Pro can export files in STL format.

First thing that popped into my head were the TAS shuttlecraft designs I re-imagined as how they could appear on TOS. Then there are many of the designs I’ve done and will be doing in this thread.

This just added a whole other aspect to this project. I would still design within the parameters I established for the project, but now the designs could be realized in physical form beyond an interesting 3D computer render.

My brain is spinning thinking about this…

 

[publiusr]

I hope you pursue this possibility.
I wish I had tech-bro levels of money—so as to have printed models filmed by an Eclair NPR 16 mm camera, were it possible. Texas Chainsaw used that with Ektachrome film which needed bright light—and I think it would match older film just on account of being newer.

You would have proper “remastered” footage then.

 

[Warped9]

A coworker clued me into this. I was under the impression these thing were in the tens of thousands or at least thousands of dollars, but she informed me you can a decent one in the hundreds. Her husband has one and makes all kinds of sci-fi and fantasy stuff with it—she showed me pucs.

So this is a real possibility I will look into further.

 

[Commander Troi]

I have a friend who has 3 or so 3-d printers and makes (and sells!) stuff all the time. They are definitely cheaper and better quality than they were when they came out.

 

[Warped9]

If you really want to salivate check out the 3D printing work of one of Doug Drexler's friends, Russell Meyers. Doug featured some of his work on his FB page.

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[knightgrace]

Yippee!!!

You are back!!!

Great idea to 3D print them...

You might find out that some things aren't quite as they should be...

Why do I say this? Because others translating, let FJ's Constitution class to 3D images found problems...

Going to real world???