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Forum: Scratch Building, Aircraft Design, 3D/CAD
01-18-2009, 10:17 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 2,742
Posted By NRistow

RE: Custom Drawing Waterslide Decals

Some software you could try out. GIMP is a photo editing suite. It should allow you to straighten the image and provide good results touching up the image.

Inkscape is a vector drawing program...
Forum: Aerodynamics
04-02-2007, 11:58 AM
Replies: 51
Views: 5,877
Posted By NRistow

RE: Why does it fly?

Well, there is a picture, been going around for years along with the story.

one wing f15
Forum: RC Jets
03-22-2007, 10:40 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 1,625
Posted By NRistow

RE: Holy Smokes !!!!

Neat video I ran across from another thread somewhere. Shows quite clearly how the leading edge doors work. The amount of wing flex is impressive.

747- Lufthansa wing view
Forum: Composites Fabrication And Repair
02-08-2007, 07:37 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 697
Posted By NRistow

RE: Need easy g/m^2 to oz/yd^2 conversion

Google

Google conversion
Forum: Scratch Building, Aircraft Design, 3D/CAD
01-22-2007, 10:33 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 1,111
Posted By NRistow

RE: Help in Solid Edge Or CatiaV5

In catia, you need to go into the 2d drafting workbench, then import your dxf. Then you can copy/paste the airfoil section onto your drawing planes in your product.

To loft a wing, you'll need...
Forum: Scratch Building, Aircraft Design, 3D/CAD
09-19-2006, 02:13 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 1,711
Posted By NRistow

RE: Raster to Vector question for Autocad users

I havn't used older versions of Acad for a while, but you should be able to move, rotate and scale an image using the standard commands. I think I remember using them in 2000, possibly even 14. I...
Forum: Aerodynamics
08-23-2006, 12:53 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 1,306
Posted By NRistow

RE: Conversion from metric to American HELP !!!

Google has a built in calculator.

in the google bar, type

1850mm in in

and see what it says. :)
Forum: RC Jets
06-29-2006, 07:24 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 3,545
Posted By NRistow

RE: F-14 explodes/supersonic turn

The site itself has a write up on the event:
Forum: RC Warbirds and Warplanes
06-07-2006, 12:08 AM
Replies: 39
Views: 17,843
Posted By NRistow

RE: Let's Loft!

You can do something similar working from the top view. Using the top view you can place your ribs anywhere, and get accurate dimensions for them by bringing down construction lines. You may want to...
Forum: Scratch Building, Aircraft Design, 3D/CAD
05-05-2006, 03:21 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 4,274
Posted By NRistow

RE: scale to a specific size CAD

I use the align tool in Acad for scaling, when you need something scaled in all directions the same amount.

basically draw a line, or setup 2 points the exact length (or width) you want the...
Forum: Scratch Building, Aircraft Design, 3D/CAD
04-18-2006, 05:52 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 738
Posted By NRistow

RE: Interesting CAD Accesory

I've used an x-keys programmable keypad for years. It works out really nice for some programs. I have a numpad + commands available for my left hand, and a mouse for my right. The only time I need to...
Forum: Scratch Building, Aircraft Design, 3D/CAD
04-17-2006, 02:54 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,990
Posted By NRistow

RE: Autocad 2007

If you have several 2 dimensional cross sections of a part, and you want a smooth surface to connect between those parts, you can use a loft.

The loft will make a continuous smooth surface...
Forum: Scratch Building, Aircraft Design, 3D/CAD
04-10-2006, 07:04 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 7,128
Posted By NRistow

RE: MESH TO NURBS CONVERTION

I don't believe that rhino will convert a mesh object to surface object yet. Think I read somewhere on their site that rhino 4 is suppose to have a 'back engineer' feature that will create nurbs...
Forum: Scratch Building, Aircraft Design, 3D/CAD
03-02-2006, 02:06 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,281
Posted By NRistow

RE: 3D cad newbie project

For the cowl, you would probably want to revolve/lathe it, if your software supports that.

One way, if it is a round cowl, is to make a spline that is the shape of the top half of the cowl...
Forum: Scratch Building, Aircraft Design, 3D/CAD
02-19-2006, 03:52 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 976
Posted By NRistow

RE: streching in autocad 2000

It looks like the only way to do it with the builtin tools is converting the object to a block and scaling it from there.

A bit of googling found this tool, xscale. Sounds like it should do what...
Forum: RC Jets
05-31-2005, 07:31 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,193
Posted By NRistow

RE: What NASA plane is this?

The White Knight was contracted to drop test Boeing's X-37, instead of using NASAs B-52. The project was cancelled a few years back, but Boeing is still developing it, along with DARPA apparently.
...
Forum: Scratch Building, Aircraft Design, 3D/CAD
04-20-2005, 10:29 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,138
Posted By NRistow

RE: How to convert a dwg or dxf to a jpg format?

I dunno, I haven't had any problems with the jpeg printer driver in autocad. It works just like a printer, except you tell it what resolution to output instead of what paper size.

It could be...
Forum: Crash & Rebuild
03-21-2005, 02:27 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,556
Posted By NRistow

RE: Engine crashed ...... Literally

That reminds me of an anecdote in No Short Days, a book on the development of the wasp r-2800.
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