Floor plans

[David ColwillParticipant @davidcolwill19261]

[David ColwillParticipant @davidcolwill19261]

I'm about to re arrange the layout of my workshop and am going to prouduce a CAD drawing of the floor. Then I can make templates of the machines which can be moved around to explore various layouts. Being lazy I felt sure that others before me would have produced DFX drawings of various machines, it seems not. I first tried searching for the lathes that I own,no joy. I then thought surley something as common as a super 7, still no joy.

Just a thought but seeing as we often have the same types of machine could we not store the outlines as DFX's for this pupose and make them available to all?

David.

[Mark P.Participant @markp]

Floor plans are OK but they don't really work in the real world.Sometime ago I worked for an airline,we had a new hangar built which would house 3 757 aircraft at the same time which it would if one was craned in.Only my twopennerth.

Regards Pailo.

[merlinParticipant @merlin98989]

I have always cut out bits of cardboard more or less to scale and shuffle those around on a sheet of paper. Leave a long thin bit to denote the space needed for long items protruding from the headstock mandrel.

You don't need a computer programme or even a computer, just a rule and a pair of scissors.

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