I found out why it was 31 meg. I had a few massive components in there that were from import experiments. I purged them and it's much smaller now. I also reworked the rear end, and I'm putting in windows proper.

Here are a few things that I found out that are intresting...

The ship is 1:1, and I found out that the insides, for the most part, are quite consistent in scale. The only real issue is that the real external size of the ship verses the published sizes are incorrect. I'm nudging around the skin of the ship and the placement of windows to better reflect what's inside. Also, because the skin is angular, there are a few more vaulted overheads (ceilings) that I took for granted.

By the way, here's the actual size of the ship

Published dimensions:
length: 842.5 meters
beam : 487 meters
depth : 137 meters

Real world dimensions
length : 1048.41 meters (a kilometer!)
beam : 738 meters(!)
Depth : 238 meters

By beam I'm going by the widest part, the saucer. Also, the plans I'm using are not Mike Okuda's I'm using the original ones that were authorized by Andrew Probert, the original designer of the ship.

Hi guys, I'm a little "old hat" when it comes to working with 3D. I've been playing with Sketchup for about a week now, and I have a problem that I don't know how to solve.

Let's take a box. (I would say a sphere, but strangely Sketchup doesn't have that as a primitive.) Anyway, you have a box, and you make that a component.

Now we make a bigger box, make that a component too, and we put the small box inside.

So now we have a box in a box.

I need to do a CSG Boolean operation on the boxes (A Boolean subtract) so I can put a set of holes straight through both boxes. I've tried making my own "cut away" component, but that only cuts one surface. I get around this by telling the component to "intersect". Then I delete the component and manually cut away at the incisions it left behind. This, sadly doesn't work with you have two different components. Even though I'm intersected though both components with my "cutter" component, Sketchup tells me that there is nothing to intersect.

How do you do this?

Thanks for the help guys.

Whee! The first deck is done... I had to imageshack the picture because it's HUGE and takes up both of my screens.

I've discovered that I'm really pushing Sketchup. With one deck it's really bogging down. I'm layering the decks, but when autosave kicks in I have to wait 15 agonizing seconds to get control of the application again. (The file is 31 meg so far)

Here's a little something I've been obsessed about for the last few days. I have to "furnish" it still. After that, I have 22 more decks left to go.