Planning a curved hotel - getting the footprint right - using Inkscape

I am about to build a curved-fronted hotel on the corner of two streets on my N Gauge model railway layout, Chandwell. In this episode I show how I used the free drawing application, Inkscape, to get the footprint of the building exactly right.

The two streets join each other at an angle of 62 degrees. The hotel's main entrance will be exactly in the middle of the curved part of the hotel's front. The hotel will be longer than the curved part alone. So I needed to take care when designing the hotel's footprint that it all aligned and will fit the space on the layout perfectly.

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00:00 Introduction
00:42 Measuring the real building
01:45 Drawing circles to represent the curved frontage
03:06 Quartering - removing the parts of the circle we don't need
03:39 Angles - working out all of the other angles we need to build the hotel
04:56 Centre recess - working out the recess at the centre of the curve
06:13 Full frontage - adding some straight parts to complete the frontage
07:29 Preparing to construct - finishing off and getting ready to construct the hotel
08:05 Testing - checking that the hotel will fit on the layout