A 28mm building should have about a 1-1/4" tall door and 2" tall stories. I didn't like how that looked in Fusion, so I exaggerated the height to 3" to make the timbering stand out more. That pushed the side dimensions to 6" x 4" for the wall backing.
Drawing the building in Fusion 360 took about four hours, mainly because there are so many lines in the timbering sections. But once I got one piece looking right, I could cut and paste to speed the others along. Adding the top curve of the window shutters was easy with the Spline tool. I originally tried making a mesh of straight lines in the window frames, but it wasn't looking regular enough. Cut-and-pasting a pattern of diamonds gave 90% of the effect in 10% of the time. I punted the fancy shingles and the chimney, not that they can't be done, but I'm trying to finish in a finite amount of time.
The next trick was getting the sloped roof into the pdf drawing. There is no option when adding a master view to have the model at just the right 90-degree angle. I ended up moving the roof piece aside and rotating it flat in the CAD drawing. Since both roof pieces are identical, I only had to do it once. Then I spent one more hour unmasking the pieces in Illustrator, squeezing them into a single artboard, and drawing in the raster patterns for the door and the roof shingles (cheating again by having the two roof pieces look the same). Now I just need to cut and glue!
Drawing the building in Fusion 360 took about four hours, mainly because there are so many lines in the timbering sections. But once I got one piece looking right, I could cut and paste to speed the others along. Adding the top curve of the window shutters was easy with the Spline tool. I originally tried making a mesh of straight lines in the window frames, but it wasn't looking regular enough. Cut-and-pasting a pattern of diamonds gave 90% of the effect in 10% of the time. I punted the fancy shingles and the chimney, not that they can't be done, but I'm trying to finish in a finite amount of time.
The next trick was getting the sloped roof into the pdf drawing. There is no option when adding a master view to have the model at just the right 90-degree angle. I ended up moving the roof piece aside and rotating it flat in the CAD drawing. Since both roof pieces are identical, I only had to do it once. Then I spent one more hour unmasking the pieces in Illustrator, squeezing them into a single artboard, and drawing in the raster patterns for the door and the roof shingles (cheating again by having the two roof pieces look the same). Now I just need to cut and glue!
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