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This looks really good Trevor! Very neat, sturdy and suitably insulated where needed.

I certainly liked the idea that 'designs' could be shared using just a text file - and by changing base variables, one design could be very simply resized or modified... Yes, I really like this too. I found Solid Edge Community Edition and although it took more effort to learn than SCAD had, it's m...

Wow! That looks excellent!! Even with the rendering time, it's a lot better than I could achieve with TinkerCAD. I also have an old (7 years old and not high spec) laptop and it took less than 10 mins to render, so no issues there, it gives a great finish and easy to change, liking it so far :D Goo...

Hats off to you though Simon. :D Thank you - incidentally, rotate_extrude() would be an excellent way of creating a hat to 3D print :lol: Let's come back to this: The dome looks fantastic, however it's only good for a flat boiler. The dome for a round boiler needs the flare to change inline with th...

This doesn't help with the dome problem... but I did find, in Mastering OpenSCAD, both the mirror transformation and a neat trick with a for loop that helps with symmetrical objects - such as my headboard above. Take for example the cylinders I used for the cutouts in the headboard. I can take this ...

The dome looks fantastic, however it's only good for a flat boiler. The dome for a round boiler needs the flare to change inline with the size of the curve of the boiler. If you can do the code for that, it would be extremely useful, especially for those of us who struggle with any type of programm...

Have you figured out a way of getting the flare at the base of a loco dome or chimney with OpenSCAD? It's one of the trickiest things to do in TinkerCAD and I've still not yet mastered it. This is a great question. But not an easy one! Especially as I've never made a dome virtually or physically. I...

My headboard is a bit of a kludge and could do with some tidying up, but here it is. // Upper row text Upper_row_text="SANTA"; // Lower row text Lower_row_text="SPECIAL"; // The angle of the arc forming the headboard angle=100; // [30:5:120] // How thick the board on which the le...

I've put my customisable code for creating wheels onto Thingiverse, where it is licensed CC-BY-NC-SA. Wheels for 16mm Scale Model Railways by mrsimonwood licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution - Non-Commercial - Share Alikelicense . You can use it to generate STL files for various types o...

I'll also put the OpenSCAD file up on Thingiverse in due course as CC-BY-NC-SA. In theory you can access all the Customizer stuff on there as a web form and then download an STL directly - in practice I've always found this functionality is broken and you need to download the .scad file to a local ...

Great to see someone modelling this already - it was inevitable after Rik posted that photo! And happy to have helped even if only in a incredibly minor way. I can offer no insight as to where the water tank is, I agree the second photo shows it's not the side of the cab. I also think that whole are...

“20 minute later….” Wow! This Ellie looks great, runs great, and is very efficient - she looks to be a very enjoyable loco to run.

Wow, that looks so cool (I believe that is the parlance these days ;) ). I am sure you must be right. After all, there can't be many who are as hip as those of us who build model trains in our gardens ;) I was wondering if I could use this to produce wheels for my 0-16.5 models. Their wheel diamete...

I don't know how much that video was slowed down - its an automatic function on the iPhone. However it really will run that slowly! In fact I am amazed at how quickly it has run in and how well it runs. It is smooth and very controllable. Some time ago we talked about using this type of reverser as...

I've updated my wheel.scad code. Been meaning to post up the file properly for people to download but in the meanwhile I'll paste the code here. There are a few refinements and a lot more customisable parameters! https://photos.simonwood.info/_datas/h/h/7/hh7xrynhca/i/uploads/h/h/7/hh7xrynhca//2021/...

Well I was sorry not to see Linda steam over the viaduct in her new livery, but I am glad to hear it was a simple fix!

It's been far too long since I visited this thread, and I knew that there would be a lot to catch up on Peter! Very enjoyable reading... I do especially like the coach 20 divided in 2. Very much in the narrow gauge spirit to acquire rolling stock and then modify it to suit the line or purpose it is ...

Just catching up on the forum, very sorry to hear Rod is unwell. Thanks for the updates Anne & Peter and please pass on my best wishes to him.

That is a really beautiful looking tram loco Tony - and of course, capable of very nice sedate running. Brilliant.

Really interested in the way you've made the lamp irons Tony. I must have a go at that! The result looks excellent. Once you'd cut it from the main piece, did you just file it down to size?