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Re: Creating form drawings in Excel
By:Richard Boyle
Date: 6/13/2000, 3:20 pm
In Response To: Re: Creating form drawings in Excel (david)

Hi David,

Your formula should work, except you will be typing out a lot of formulas instead of just "copy and paste".

On some of the forms I think the diagonals help to define the chine. Also, if you import your excel file into autocad and fit the polylines to get a fair curve, you may find you need to remove some points. I found if the points were really close to each other they sometimes caused a kink in the curve.

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Creating form drawings in Excel
david -- 6/10/2000, 8:40 pm
Use autocad
Vernon Lowery -- 6/13/2000, 12:21 pm
Re: Creating form drawings in Excel
Richard Boyle -- 6/12/2000, 10:00 pm
Re: Creating form drawings in Excel
david -- 6/13/2000, 12:52 pm
Re: Creating form drawings in Excel
Richard Boyle -- 6/13/2000, 3:20 pm
Re: Creating form drawings in Excel
Elk -- 6/12/2000, 12:12 am
Re: Creating form drawings in Excel
david -- 6/12/2000, 11:36 am
Re: Creating form drawings in Excel
Greg -- 6/13/2000, 1:53 am
Re: Creating form drawings in Excel
Jim McCool -- 6/12/2000, 1:31 pm