Lou_Papet

Thank you very much Allan, It is heartwarming to read, me which think that the French poeple don't have a very good reputation abroad. On the other hand, I would agree with you in considering that France is a beautiful country outside the cities and that one eats very well there in the big depths of the regions. Unfortunately, in busy areas this is not always the case. So welcome to France for the next time ! ... Best regards. Jean Pierre

Good evening everyone, It is from the bottom of my heart that I come to thank you all for all your encouragement and your expressions of welcome. Indeed, CAD is a valuable tool for designing models which are inspired by existing models generally presented in a succinct manner, for example on the "https://www.pinterest.fr/ " site where the plans are not always geometrically consistent, probably to protect their authors. Personally, I only use free CAD programs because I don't have a heavy use of them. I have other activities. For information, if it can be useful, I have : for image processing : 'Inkscape "," GIMP ", for 2D processing : "NanoCAD" which replaced "DoubleCAD", "LibreCAD" and an very old "MicroCADAM" that I kept from my activity more than 20 years ago and which served me until this year, for 3D processing : "FreeCAD", "OpenSCAD" (programming), "DELFTship" and "Blender" which only serves me very exceptionally but which I keep anyway. It's true, it takes time to learn how to use it, even when you are already a little confirmed. Otherwise, there are the pre-printed or die-cut kits. I hope I can describe my projects. I will probably have some questions about how to build but that won't be until later. Again a big thank you to all. Best regards, Jean-Pierre

Greetings to all, A member introduced me to the MSW site which interested me a lot and under which I was able to see very beautiful things. I am a retired computer systems engineer-developer since 1995 from the Eurocopter France Company, currently EADS Helicopters. I have always been interested in model making without being a very great practitioner and, currently, I model a sailboat and a motor glider under DELFTship to build in cardboard after having tried unsuccessfully to do it under FreeCAD. La pinque marseillaise http://jeanpierre.rousset.free.fr/Modelisme/M_Decoration/bateaux/Pinque/Documentation/La_pinque_la_Fileuse.html Le Fournier RF4-D (also modeled with OpenSCAD) http://jeanpierre.rousset.free.fr/Informatique/Applications/DELFTship/Fournier_FR4-D/Documentation/images/RF4-D_complet.jpg Of course, a few years ago, I tried the 3D modeler Blender to design a Provençal clock to be made also in cardboard without having been able to put my project into execution despite some preliminary tests which were moreover only moderately encouraging. L'horloge provençale http://jeanpierre.rousset.free.fr/Modelisme/M_Decoration/divers/horloge/horloge_carton/Blender/index.html I did not persevere with Blender because I find it not at all intuitive. As I stay quite a long time without using it, I have to reform myself each time which is quite painful. So I remodeled this clock with FreeCAD : http://jeanpierre.rousset.free.fr/Modelisme/M_Decoration/divers/horloge/horloge_carton/FreeCAD/Documentation/Virtualisation/index.html Currently, I am preparing the construction plans for the sailboat and the motor glider with the software 'NanoCAD'. In the end, I am not sure that I am up to what I have seen on this forum and hope to be able to show some achievements with the indulgence of the artists that we meet here. Best regards Jean Pierre