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Re: Drawing developable surfaces by hand

Posted By: borden
Date: Tuesday, 24 September 2002, at 8:19 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Drawing developable surfaces by hand (mike allen)

: quickly, i'd use 2 overlaid consecutive sections to get a common radial pt to
: make offsets. and then a tangential projection from the side view between
: to get length. Partial points on each to get the relative curvature. All
: are approximations.

: realistically? - make a model and take apart.
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Greetings:

Or, you could download Rhino www.rhino3d.com for free and design and unwrap the surfaces in CAD. You get 25 saves before your "free" software locks up.

This is certainly easier than slaving on the board

IMHO

BL

Messages In This Thread

Drawing developable surfaces by hand
Greg Jones -- Tuesday, 24 September 2002, at 4:51 p.m.

Re: Drawing developable surfaces by hand
mike allen -- Tuesday, 24 September 2002, at 6:43 p.m.

Re: Drawing developable surfaces by hand
borden -- Tuesday, 24 September 2002, at 8:19 p.m.

Re: Drawing developable surfaces by hand
Greg Jones -- Tuesday, 24 September 2002, at 9:29 p.m.

Re: Drawing developable surfaces by hand
mike allen -- Wednesday, 25 September 2002, at 2:53 p.m.

expanded explanation:
mike allen -- Wednesday, 25 September 2002, at 3:12 p.m.

Re: Drawing developable surfaces by hand
Nick Schade-Guillemot Kayaks -- Wednesday, 25 September 2002, at 8:42 a.m.

Some good resources
Greg Jones -- Thursday, 26 September 2002, at 7:24 a.m.

Re: Some good resources
Nick Schade-Guillemot Kayaks -- Thursday, 26 September 2002, at 4:19 p.m.

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