ORIGINAL: David Bathe
Surely it must be measured with the body/datum line set at zero... not at an angle.
Otherwise you could hold a much larger model at 45deg and fit it in the box.
Who specifies the angle? Must be zero.
My you, never under estimate the European Bureaucrat.
David,
You hit on something of a misnomer in the regulations....Wherever the regs state that the model shall fit inside a 2 meter X 2 meter box, biasing the model will allow it to easily fit even if it's more than 2 meters long or wide. Of course that lands you outside the spirit of the regulation.
I had not thought of it before but it makes sense. Any verbiage that references a 2m X 2m box should be stricken from the regs. I've never seen any verbiage that spells out orthogonal measurement
The way a model is processed is correct....a set of calipers with jaws 2 meters apart. The regs should only reflect that and be done with it