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I am starting to draw a truck model in Fusion 360 and have placed the front, top and side plans and profiles (canvases) but I'm not sure where to place them in relation to the origin. Would they be best aligned with the front bumper, the centre of the front axle or on the ground level line? Recommendations and any further advice would be most welcome. cheers, Mike

Having completed my Packard Merlin model, which was the subject of an earlier WiP thread, I've decided to move on to another 1:8 engine scratch-build. A Clerget 9B/BF, as used in the Sopwith Camel and other WW1 airframes. There's little to choose between the B and BF as the latter was a just a long stroke version of the former with no exterior differences. The long stroke did however bump the power up from 130 to 140 hp. I've built 3 of the venerable 1:8 scale Hasegawa Models of this engine over the years and, while they're quite good, the standard of the ancillaries leaves a lot to be desired. They only bear a passing resemblance to reality. In fact, thinking about it as I type, I've actually built 4 of them. The last one was the, quite rare, white metal 1:8 Clerget kit that Hasegawa issued. For that I completely scratch-built the ancillaries and the whole affair came out OK. I did put a few pics up in "Ready for Inspection" as I recall. I'll find a link... https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235067781-clerget-9b-engine/#comment-3579517 Looking at it now, with the more detailed knowledge of the engine I have, the errors in the scratch-built areas are quite embarrassing tbh. However, the inaccuracies in all of the Hasegawa kits have irked me and discovering that Pierre Jansen of PJVision ( https://www.pjvision.nl/ ) had reverse engineered a drawing set for both the British built version (Gwynnes Ltd.), and original French Clerget-Blin built engines, while he was stripping and rebuilding examples of both versions was too much to pass up. As with my Merlin, I plan to model the engine in CAD and then 3D print the parts. I'm not new to CAD, having been involved with it since the late 80s, and a confirmed unofficial AutoCAD dabbler for the last 17 years. However, my access to AutoCAD has recently ended, and there is no way on this Earth that I'll be stumping up the £2k annual fee for my own licence. Hence, I also plan to use this project as a means to teach myself Fusion 360, which is free if used on a non-commercial basis. So far the transition from AutoCAD to Fusion has been OK...ish. The way Fusion works is much more structured than AutoCAD, which is the Wild West by comparison, but enforcing that structure on you isn't a bad thing to my mind. Epically frustrating and the source of considerable bad language at times, but not overall bad. Now, progress so far... I should perhaps have started at the centre of the engine and worked outwards, but I didn't. The nose piece looked nice and easy to draw up, with large amounts of rotational symmetry, so I started there. 2 days of utter frustration yielded this... Which I could've drawn in 30 mins in AutoCAD. I also didn't tick the little box on the thread formation routine telling it to actually model the thread on the end of the nose, so that came out disappointingly blank. Another thing learned. Having drawn the nose piece I added the propellor hub, by which time I had learned to tick the little box, and lo! the bolts cometh (cameth?) threaded. The thread on the nose is of course completely hidden by the prop hub nut now. Next up will be the Cam/Distribution box that the nose piece bolts on to. Then the main crankcase, which is possibly where I should've started to be honest, but that looked a bit daunting to a Fusion novice.

Hello Chaps, This is my first post in this section, not technically space or Sci Fi but at the same time it is... As you can probably tell from my name, I really like ELO, the first album I bought was a little known masterpiece called 'ZOOM' when released in 2001, I think it is one of the best relatively unknown albums ever produced. What I was drawn too was the fantastic album cover as a 12 year old it was great and I've been hooked ever since. I am going to attempt to model this particular beautifully grungy version as a display, modelled in Fusion 360 and printed on the elegoo mars resin printer, I have spent around 2 hours fiddling and I have the basic shape set, still a lot of surface details and greebles to add but it's a good start, as you can see I am having to add a little bit of artistic licence to the engine area. I will attempt to print the blue glass in blue resin and ad some illumination. I am printing one of at 1/4 of the intended size as a test. Lets see how this goes Cheers, Andy.