Here to help you design balsa wood bridges

As we have introduced in our previous articles, balsa wood is very soft and easy to cut. So it has been the first choice for making modle and doll furnitures. You can use it to make modle balsa wood bridge actually. Before you making it, you should have a simple design at least. How to design balsa wood bridge? The basic requirement is to give the dimensions, like the length, width, height and so forth. And you should know the capacity of your expected bridge actually.
First of all, you can use a pencil to draw the side view of your expected bridge on paper. Frankly speaking, there are various kinds of bridges and different kinds of type has its own designs and shapes. Taking the truss bridge for an example, it is much stronger. From the side view, it looks like a trapezoid made up of three triangles actually. So, you should know what should your bridge look like when you fee its side view.
Second, decide the dimensions of your balsa wood bridge actually. Taking the truss bridge for an example, the sides of trapezoid will be the height of your bridge and the longer side of the trapezoid will be the length of the bridge. You should have a clear awareness of the length, width and height of the bridge.
Third, after the side view of your bridge having been drawn, you are advised to draw the top view of your bridge on the same sheet of paper as you draw the side view actually. The top view will basically cover the length and width of the deck of the bridge. Different kinds of bridge calls for different top view actually. You are advised to choose the standard requirements of your expected bridge dimension, and drawn according to the requirements actually. There are many free resources in the internet. You can take some as your references.
Fourth, you should add dimension to the top view in the same fashion as you add them for side view actually. Generally, the shorter sides represent for the width and the longer sides of the rectangle represent for the length of your bridge actually.
You can use some draw software to give your design a three-dimensional visual effect. Generally speaking, good and precise design can be the half success actually. You should be careful and patient when you design your balsa wood bridge actually. Thanks for reading!