Mark has asked me to post some of the sketches of my crazy workshed, so that's my excuse. I still have a LOT of drawing to do, but I decided to post what I have already, just for the sympathy value. If you open the skp file and view from the top, you'll see the funky shape of the corner of the yard that's now mine. That's the retaining wall and rose-garden strip along the back, the white picket fence is the beginning of the vegetable garden, and the other cement pad is one of my two backyard patios, without the roof. I haven't drawn in the fences on the back and right-side of the work-shed pad, but I will, maybe before, maybe after I start adding the observatory dome.
:ugeek: Attached files Workshed 08-07.skp (4 MB)Â

 

Randy, thanks for the encouraging words, but the model is changing every day. I've added a 7' diameter observatory dome for my Meade LX-10 8" telescope. I don't quite like the facet angles of the dome yet, but I'll get there.
Oh, the blue "cube" is the operational envelope for the 4X4 Hybrid Router.
Until I start driving nails, my wife's "worried for my sanity" looks are the only limit.

:ugeek: Attached files Workshed 08-16.skp (4.6 MB)Â

 

For anyone interested, I posted a video while explaining the dollhouse of my ObservaShed. I designed the shed in Sketchup and cut the dollhouse at 1:8 scale on my PP ver 1.5.
By the way, at 1:8 scale, the thickness of the FFF approximates the scale thickness of a 2X4 or 2X6, so the model also gives me a "feel" for the stiffness of some of the structural elements. :geek:

Attached files

 

Thanks Mark, but I'm sorry I forgot to mention the PP during the video.

 

Randy, I'm impatient enough that I usually do things that way also, but the cold and rainy weather has forced me to leave the tarp over the shed and think about what needed to be done still. I can think better in pictures, so I decided to work on my drawings, but then I realized I needed to see what I was doing and remembered the PP is really great at making things exactly to scale.
I'll probably never finish the Sketchup model or the dollhouse, because sometime before I get the last nail hammered I won't need either of them.

 

Hey Mark, I was looking at that. Having a section of a geodesic for the dome would be pretty cool - I wonder if I could hinge one hexagon forward and one hexagon upward to make the opening for the telescope to see? I guess I'll have to make a model and try it, eh?
Thanks for posting it.

 

Here's a quick "walkabout" of the nearly completed exterior of my Observ-a-shop, with a glimpse at the well-unfinished interior.

 

lol ! Thanks guyz!