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Franz Joseph's Star Trek Blueprints - All New CAD design

Cool! What software was used to create these? It would be nice to see them exported as SVG or PDF to preserve them as they were created. I think the process used to export to JPG caused some issues, since there are "smear" artifacts around most filled areas, especially the people and many of the thicker lines.
 
B.J. said:
Cool! What software was used to create these? It would be nice to see them exported as SVG or PDF to preserve them as they were created. I think the process used to export to JPG caused some issues, since there are "smear" artifacts around most filled areas, especially the people and many of the thicker lines.
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PDF is available at the bottom of the page...
 
B.J. said:
Cool! What software was used to create these? It would be nice to see them exported as SVG or PDF to preserve them as they were created. I think the process used to export to JPG caused some issues, since there are "smear" artifacts around most filled areas, especially the people and many of the thicker lines.
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AutoCAD.

And there is a link to the PDFs at the bottom of the page. The PDFs are even higher res than the JPGs, with fewer artifacts.
 
What I would like to know is just how many computer cabinets can fit inside the two deck tall main computer/Emergency Bridge volume. I have tried, to compute it using an Engineering ruler...

The next thing is have you noticed that the Impulse power units have plasma cycling stations...

Use the Technical Manual, for close ups...

And yes, Franz Joseph, should have done a larger scale version for the Technical Manual for the Main Computer.
 
Outstanding. Happy 50th! I was going to try to tackle something like this myself but I quickly realized the enormity of the project and waved off.

Just at a glance though this artist needs to better align the NCC's for the other ships.

But really, whoooo doggy, what an effort! THANK YOU Will Garmer.

F. King Daniel said:
The perspective cutaway on December in the calender is especially awesome.
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Wow!
 
The December cutaway is indeed awesome although there seems to be some shenanigans happening with the primary hull engineering and saucer cutout :)
 
Tallguy said:
Not sure I follow. Elaborate, please?
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We should see the undercut start showing up in front of engineering (the corridor might just be narrow enough to fit inside the neck to be still flat) but looking closer the back of the saucer would appear to cut into the back wall of engineering. Hmmm....

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blssdwlf said:
We should see the undercut start showing up in front of engineering (the corridor might just be narrow enough to fit inside the neck to be still flat) but looking closer the back of the saucer would appear to cut into the back wall of engineering. Hmmm....
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Actually I think you just proved that it would be OK. We're only looking at the narrow slice (YZ) of the corridor so there would be no undercut. And he sliced off the section of engineering where the undercut might have to show.

This might make you wonder about the original FJ plans in the first place.

But don't ask me. I'm 45 years late to realizing that the refit has no place for a turboshaft to get around the intermix chamber!
 
Tallguy said:
Actually I think you just proved that it would be OK. We're only looking at the narrow slice (YZ) of the corridor so there would be no undercut. And he sliced off the section of engineering where the undercut might have to show.

This might make you wonder about the original FJ plans in the first place.

But don't ask me. I'm 45 years late to realizing that the refit has no place for a turboshaft to get around the intermix chamber!
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I agree, the way it was sliced upon closer inspection would suggest that the undercut parts would likely not be visible in the cutaway. However it does reveal the back wall of engineering is too far back and is outside of the exterior hull... :)

LOL on the refit comment :D
 
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The area under discussion above has always been one of the areas where FJ had to fudge things just a bit to make it at least appear to fit, and hoped nobody would notice.

Another problem area has always been the vertical clearance necessary for the transporter platform compared to what we see onscreen.
 
I just looked through my files. This was as far as I got.

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@WillCAD, bravo! And kudos for including Geoffrey Mandell's warp engine plans!

This takes me back to 40 years ago this September when I got my first copy of the Star Trek Blueprints. (They would have been only ten years old at that point.) I got my copy for $5 with no cover inset. I spent hours with those pages spread out on the floor. It taught me about a possible layout of the Enterprise, it taught me several drafting conventions, and it was one of my gateway drugs into Star Trek tech. (I had purchased Larry Miller's Hornet plans earlier that summer.)

A few months later and I would acquire Starship Design (Todd Guenther) and the Star Trek Maps (Mandel, and LOTS of other people) and that was all she wrote. I was well and truly addicted to this stuff.

The Technical Manual was reprinted a few times now. But those 12 sheets? Never.
 
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