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FSX Aircraft blueprints for 3D Max

Congrats for finding the same video tutorial I watched the very first time I started using Max! :D

Regarding blueprints, if it's a Boeing aircraft, they have free AutoCAD .DWG's and .DXF's for download on their site here: http://www.boeing.com/boeing/commercial/airports/3_view.page

I've found some to be very accurate, while others look rather cheesy and unrealistic. You just have to try several and see which ones are good. They have some fantastic blueprints for a 737-400 that I downloaded a while back, and those might have been better than the ones in that tutorial (which you have to buy). ;)

What kind of aircraft are you modeling? Surely I've come across blueprints for it at some point in time...
 
ozzman1997 said:
Congrats for finding the same video tutorial I watched the very first time I started using Max! :D

Regarding blueprints, if it's a Boeing aircraft, they have free AutoCAD .DWG's and .DXF's for download on their site here: http://www.boeing.com/boeing/commercial/airports/3_view.page

I've found some to be very accurate, while others look rather cheesy and unrealistic. You just have to try several and see which ones are good. They have some fantastic blueprints for a 737-400 that I downloaded a while back, and those might have been better than the ones in that tutorial (which you have to buy). ;)

What kind of aircraft are you modeling? Surely I've come across blueprints for it at some point in time...
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Lol, what a coincidence! I just started MAX and am learning it :D

I'm just looking for a simple airliner to model.
 
I don't think the words "simple" and "airliner" can be used in the same sentence...On this forum anyway.

But since you asked, I've found the 737 to be a little more structurally simple in comparison to most airliners. I tried modeling that same -800 in the video about a year and a half ago, and I remember the hardest part of that plane (well, any airliner at that) was the belly fairing/wing root area. It's ironic how he doesn't show the way he made it, because that would probably be 2 whole videos of just drawing splines! :eek: Just look up some spline cage modeling techniques and you should grasp the concepts pretty quickly. ;)
 
Some of them are DWF and need to be converted to .DWG or .DXF with an online converter...Which blueprints did you download?
 
All 3 of those are .DXF. :confused: 3ds Max should be able to import them just fine. :confused: What version of Max are you using?
 
There are some good drawings at the-blueprints.com. You'll have to register (for free, unless you want vector drawings). He has a big database, well organised and you're likely to find good quality prints there.

You can also find great sets of drawings with cross sections over at airwar.ru, but I'm not sure whether this guy has airliners or not.
 
Max 2012 worked fine when I imported all those Boeing DXF's. The-Blueprints.com is pretty good, although AutoCAD drawings are preferable because they are much more accurate when you zoom the view in. They don't blur when you zoom in, and the line thickness stays the same at any zoom level, so they are ideal for making precise curves. But sometimes it helps to actually make your own blueprints by tracing the aircraft's reference image with splines and then hiding or deleting the image.
 
ozzman1997 said:
Max 2012 worked fine when I imported all those Boeing DXF's. The-Blueprints.com is pretty good, although AutoCAD drawings are preferable because they are much more accurate when you zoom the view in. They don't blur when you zoom in, and the line thickness stays the same at any zoom level, so they are ideal for making precise curves. But sometimes it helps to actually make your own blueprints by tracing the aircraft's reference image with splines and then hiding or deleting the image.
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it says unable to open. Users/Nick/Desktop/FSX Model/md11a-3v.dxf . The error code reported is eInvalidSymbolTableName.
 
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