I never do Star Trek ships.
Never.
I've never been good at them, and other people have covered the subject matter more than adequately.
Yeah. Well. Okay, then. Here's a Star Trek ship. But hopefully different enough to be worth the time.
This is the Chicago Class, Starship Okmyx from Sigma Iotia II. It's a slow primitive ship that's a mix of Federation technology, and whatever devices they developed while learning to use the Federation tech. It features two "railgats", and their version of phasers (
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That happens to me frequently when I'm building things, usually after the initial design phase is over and I'm doing the details.
Looks interesting, though.
Added some text, and turned the railgat to the deployed position
Question: Why use ACad when both Blender and Daz Studio are free and are made for what you are doing? Plus they both have rendering and animation capability built in.
I've always wanted to see a ventral turret like that--one with two phasers--but a torpedo turbe between and beneath both--and a sensor dome at the very bottom
That's the point, with the markings, the Iotians are extremely imitative. At the time of this ships construction, I had thought they were still imitative, but would might begin to branch out on their own a bit, and maybe get influences from other species they meet along the way. So they're still heavily influenced by "The Feds".
With AutoCAD... 25 years of experience with the software. (14+ years on a drafting table before that.) (I'm kinda old too.) Whatever I learn using it at work helps me make spacecraft, and what I learn from making spaceships makes me the CAD Wrangler at work. AutoCAD is capable of doing some pretty awesome rendering - but I haven't found tutorials that show me how to achieve those results.
I tried Blender several years ago. I had a lot of problems. My computer, at the time, did not get along with it, the interface was a nightmare, and after some documentation from the Blender people contradicted itself, they decided to take an unhelpful, less than professional, approach.
With DAZ... I remember downloading it, and I still get emails from them... I don't remember what happened.
Maybe a refit...
I really like this… from this angle, it reminds me of the old Jefferies drawing of the “hat” Enterprise concept.