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From Paper to Processor

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Glad to see I haven't lost you, so soon . Anyhow, it's time I explain myself. My goal is to recreate the entirety  of the Haunted Mansion in Disneyland, Anaheim California, in CAD. Briefly, for those as of yet unfamiliar, CAD, or Computer-Aided Design is the video game I like to play with when I'm bored, but besides that, CAD is a term used to describe the variety of programs used by industry professionals to design houses, new products, personal projects, etc. In my specific case, the CAD programs in question are currently Revit, Autocad, and Rhino. Each of these has its own specific toolset that makes it better geared towards one type of design than the other.  So what's with the title? Well, one summer in middle school, I came across a little site called  Haunted Dimensions , and decided I'd try my hand in building my own miniature mansion. It went about as well as could be expected, considering I'd never done anything like it before. It's crooked in more...

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     Hello to all of you, and welcome to yet another  Haunted Mansion blog. Yes, there are many like it, but this one is mine. Given that, so far, that is the only distinction between this blog and others, let me take a moment to introduce myself.      I'm Sam Liedtke, I was born approximately 21 years ago somewhere in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area. A handful of things have happened in the time between then and now, but I consider the most important of them to be my introduction to the Disney parks, and of course, with them, The Haunted Mansion. For the most recent half of my life, I've decided to devote my life to becoming an Imagineer. As of the time of this post, I attend classes at the University of Utah, majoring in Architecture.      As I'm sure you can imagine, there's quite a bit more to know about me, and my parasocial relationship with The Haunted Mansion, but if I worried about piecing together a proper introduction, I'...