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    Default Planning a shed layout/design

    I need to draw pictures, I cannot see things in my mind and in thinking about setting up woodwork machinery etc in a shed I need to plan on paper but cannot find any templates etc in Australian or metric. I found the attached along with a floor plan but the dopey thing is in Imperial

    Is there a way I can convert this or is there somewhere I can find similar in metric....PLEASE>
    I would love to grow my own food, but I can not find bacon seeds

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    Sorry Tonto, but my dumb self cannot find an attachment. I don't suppose you are familiar with Sketchup or any other drawing programs? If not it would probably do your head in trying to learn enough to solve your dilemma quickly. Does your local newsagent/stationary supplier sell graph paper in decent sized sheets (say A3 minimum), at least one for a floor plan and another for drawing your own scale templates of objects that you need to arrange. Failing that, and discounting the notion of buying some butchers paper and setting out your own grid lines, if you could provide an approximate size for the shed (based on funds and space available), and a list of machines, bench, cabinet etc and approximate dimensions, I would be willing to layout a floor grid and some scale representations of the items in the list so that you could do the old shuffle things till it looks OK trick. Feel free to send me a PM if you want to go that way.

    Ideally Sketchup or similar would be a better way to go, but the concepts and learning curves would mean at least three months practice/self guided training before you could have the skills to sort out your layout, and that could be time better spent, unless of course you could use the skills developed later on to design projects that you wish to undertake.
    I used to be an engineer, I'm not an engineer any more, but on the really good days I can remember when I was.

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    I can't see an attachment either.

    Found this which might give you some ideas: https://www.pinterest.com.au/rlsfran...ayout/?lp=true

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    opps my bad.... late in the evening, big glass of red and a request to join someone in bed will put anyone off their train of thinking/thought whatever...

    this is what I was asking about..

    Graph paper is easy but its the scaling of tools and machinery. these attached would be imperial
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    I would love to grow my own food, but I can not find bacon seeds

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    Not exactly what you want since it is in Imperial, but the Grizzly workshop planner has all of their equipment, so you can place it on the planning sheet without doing any conversions. You'll find that a lot of machinery are pretty much the same dimensions whether you get Grizzly, Carbatec, Hafco, etc.

    https://www.grizzly.com/workshopplanner

    AFAIK there are no metric planners like this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tonto View Post
    opps my bad.... late in the evening, big glass of red and a request to join someone in bed will put anyone off their train of thinking/thought whatever...

    this is what I was asking about..

    Graph paper is easy but its the scaling of tools and machinery. these attached would be imperial
    The grid is 24ft x 32ft. Metric dimension would be 7.315m x 9.75m.
    If you use an approximate value of 3ft per m (i.e. every 3 grid lines), you would get 8m x 10.67m - slightly larger than the grid.

    Mark your actual floor space on the grid somewhat undersize to compensate, and you can use the tool templates (must be the same scale or why provide them?).

    The printed grid is a weird scale itself anyway.

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    Really think we get too hung up on workshop plans. Who plans where everything goes then sticks with that plan forever more. My space gets rearranged all the time as needs change. If you put wheels under most of the machines and even the work bench then the space is better used. Unless you have oodles of space then flexible is the best plan. I could never manage all the gear I have if it were fixed in place.
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