Designing Furnace for Real Life

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I’m still working on my Mother-in-Law’s furnace. Her old one is ready to fail soon.
Blender and the “MeasureIt” add-on is excellent for this. I am using BLENDER to layout everything. I’ll be using the duct rendering for a sheet metal shop to fabricate.
Of course the sheet metal drawings will be 1 dimensional and 2 dimensional with all the measurements, with the indications for the slips and drives.
I have done this before with perfect results.

Funace 009
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Here’s the old design with the flu pipe going into the chimney. I cannot use the chimney. The house is 100 years old and I do not trust that carbon dioxide from the new furnace will be blown out through the inlet of the hot water tank’s flu pipe, contaminating the entire basement.

Funace 007
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[I got a message to “Please add tags”. I ran out of tags after choosing “modeling”, what more do they want?]

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how did you do the texture for the ducts ?
it looks good

happy bl

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I got the galvanized material from this tutorial:

Here is what I used for for my project, based on that tutorial:

Duct Sheet Metal
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It has been over a month and a few people have asked me to post the real photograph of the actual furnace installed. So here it is. Pretty much what I expected, thanks to BLENDER.

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Your Blender render looks way better than the real deal.

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