I'm like on my 5th design and it's still changing, go figure.....
tony.latham wrote:p.s. A goal of 1100 pounds is more realistic.
tony.latham wrote:I'm like on my 5th design and it's still changing, go figure.....
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All your stuff is "hanging" from the shelves.
torkcm wrote:I'm using sketchup to design my teardrop and it can tell you the volume of each piece designed.
torkcm wrote:I'm also in the planning stages of my build and I found a pretty accurate way to estimate weight of materials used. I'm using sketchup to design my teardrop and it can tell you the volume of each piece designed. So say I have .75" x 1.5" x 42" long piece of plywood, the volume comes to 47.25 cu inches. Take that number and multiply it by the density of the material, plywood in this case. 47.25 x 0.02170138889 = 1.02 lbs for that piece. I know its tedious to do but sketchup handles a lot of the hard work and I can get the weight estimate pretty much spot on using a spreadsheet with a list of everything plotted out. I found that once everything was listed I was over my initial goal of 700 lbs by 190 and it's still climbing.
Sample list of densities for different materials
Material lbs per cu in
plywood 0.02170138889
aluminum 0.098
xps foam 0.001157407407
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