Neo-Volumetrics

[2046]

Sweet!

You can do volumetric analysis without LightWave or any other expensive modeler now. Google Sketchup has had a lot of Star Wars models made for it. And, with a volume plugin found here, you can get far better estimates of a ship's volume than you can by simply guessing at simpler shapes.

For instance, a TOS Connie I downloaded and tried to rescale by hand (I think it's about 850ft right now, which is only 259 meters) came out to 156,000 cubic meters, which is not too bad considering. If I calculate after the fact to try to correct it (bearing in mind I've never used the program so I don't know what I'm doing when measuring), I come up with 216,000 cubic meters. My ST-v-SW Connie volume is 211,000, so that's pretty damn close all things considered.

Enjoy!

[2046]

http://www.st-v-sw.net/STSWvolumetrics.html

Updated. Now with 74 ships and vehicles.

[Mr. Oragahn]

Didn't know about this nice plugin.
Then I don't think I need to explain why this page would be extremely useful!

A new era begins...