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Re: CAD for lofting
By:Nick Schade
Date: 7/22/1998, 4:59 pm
In Response To: Re: CAD for lofting (Mark Kanzler)

With Windows, you should be able to cut the graph from Excel and paste it into your CAD program (on a Mac this is trivial :-) and scale your drawing there and print it out on however many pages are required for full-sized drawings.

> I would think a simple 2D Cad program to just X-Y plot forms
> would be okay.

> In Nick's book he mentions using a spreadsheet like excel to
> plot the curves between points and print out. This is a bit tough
> to get the scales just right, but with enough patience it could work.
>

> A blank sheet of paper, a T square (or drafting machine) and
> a 24in steel rule with .01 inch graduations and ships curves is an
> elegant method, but is alot of work too.

> It'd be nice if the kit / plans suppliers had a mini plans package
> that was nothing but the full size forms on two sheet, one for aft
> stations, one for forward stations. Or even one sheet of forms shapes
> like the top of this...

Messages In This Thread

I need graph paper
Matt Weist -- 7/21/1998, 4:06 pm
Re: I need graph paper
Mark Kanzler -- 7/21/1998, 6:36 pm
CAD for lofting
Karl Kulp -- 7/22/1998, 2:45 am
Re: CAD for lofting
Mark Kanzler -- 7/22/1998, 10:27 am
Re: CAD for lofting
Steve Austin -- 7/23/1998, 8:21 am
Re: CAD for lofting
Karl Kulp -- 7/24/1998, 6:33 pm
Re: CAD for lofting
Nick Schade -- 7/22/1998, 4:59 pm
Re: Full size drawings
NPenney -- 7/22/1998, 11:25 am
Re: Full size drawings
Mark Kanzler -- 7/22/1998, 11:38 am
Re: Full size drawings
NPenney -- 7/22/1998, 3:30 pm
Re: Full size drawings
Mark Kanzler -- 7/22/1998, 5:38 pm
Re: Full size drawings
npenney@erols.com -- 7/22/1998, 7:35 pm
Re: Full size drawings
Bram van der Sluys -- 7/23/1998, 10:40 pm
Re: Full size drawings
Mark Kanzler -- 7/24/1998, 5:46 pm
Re: Full size drawings
NPenney -- 7/24/1998, 7:14 am
Re: Full size drawings
Mark Carroll -- 7/23/1998, 5:40 pm
Re: Full size drawings
NPenney -- 7/24/1998, 6:40 am
Re: Full size drawings
Paul Lund -- 7/24/1998, 10:44 am
Re: I need graph paper
Mark Kanzler -- 7/21/1998, 4:52 pm
Re: I need graph paper
Mark Kanzler -- 7/21/1998, 4:31 pm
Re: I need graph paper
Mark Kanzler -- 7/21/1998, 4:37 pm