Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Welcome to your new addiction my friend, those tanks are a nice score. You may want to start up a thread under members systems and post lots of photos .

There is also a forum run by this mob called backyard farmer.com, might be worth joining as well. Cheers

I am designing the system in autocad now. I will convert it to pdf and start my system thread with the design and pics of were it is going to go. and yes I am already addicted!

From what I hear, the real challange is keeping them from breeding! They're worst than Catholics! ( My family is catholic, but small)

Awesome, post of some pics of the design.

I will as soon as I finish drawing it up. Just have to squeeze it in here and there when I have time.

ok, so here is the basic layout of my first system I believe I will go ahead and start a system thread even though I am still a couple of months away from construction.

Have you tried google sketchup?

yea, I have it on my home pc. I have not had time to learn the in and outs of it yet. I will post a rendered 3d model in my system thread.

It is easy to use. I am stupid with computers and I figured it out.

yea I just have not had the time to play with it.

That's kind of like asking a Cadillac owner if they tried a Geo. If I could afford AutoCad, I would be using it.

Is that autocad? If so I rather look at sketchup., it is easier for me to visualize.

Once he renders it it will blow sketchup away. What he posted was a blueprint. That is what AutoCad was designed for, and when designing something AutoCad is quicker and easier if you have experience with it. I kept wanting to use sketchup like AutoCad when I first tried it. I find that moving objects in AutoCad is easier and more precise. Modeling in 3d is easier for me too. To do a barel, you just draw half of the silhouette and then rotate. I gave up in sketchup, and downloaded the model in the 3d warehouse. It is likely that the barel was done in AutoCad then exported to sketchup.

oh cool, I don't have any experience with this type of software.

You can do swept solids in sketchup to, but a lot of sketchup stuff is accessed by function key and not obvious in the GUI. Meaning u have to watch the tut videos.