astristech

So after posting a revised and colored version of the Ambassador Refit plan, I am left standing at a fork in the road and I would love to get some opinions from the masses.  I have taken up the duty of finishing what I intended to do months ago with regard to the Ambassador, but after colorizing the dorsal plan, I relaized just how much work is involved.  Since I work in CADD all the time to produce plans, the methods for output is a bit of trickery, meaning that I render the views in a way that they come out smooth and clearer at high resolution, instead of the normal output to printers, so in essence, there aren't any "jaggies".  Anywho, af

Miss me? Haha, thought so.  After a long reprieve from design, I was struck with some inspiration from the least likely of things, but that doesn't matter now.  I am continuing the adventure, although it will take some time after making the decision to revise the design and redesign the format.  The new coloring scheme of the plans is taking longer than I expected, but overall, I think it's worth the weight.  With the way I have arranged the labeling, it looks less cluttered and should be easier to follow.  I guess there is no right way of assembling plans for a ship and with the odd design of the ship, placing callouts and leaders can be te

I had decided a little while ago to put all Trek related work on the back burner, mainly because I needed a break.  I started to get back into FSX and I also recently figured out how to do repaints, which was cool...then my birthday came and all hell broke loose.  Birthdays are supposed to be happy times...typically for people other than me. Sunday morning, my computer wouldn't boot.  Long story short, Dell put in a service request to replace my laptop's mobo and HDD.  After repeated troubleshooting attempts, I ultimately overwrote my backup HDD...all data gone.  After that happy BS, I found out on my own what was really wrong  My SSD (solid