Thanks for the birthday wishes! I have been having a wonderful birthday :-)
The nice thing about the pre-sliced approach is after transferring the outlines to graph paper, you can put the model back together if you like and save it.
What I'm wondering is, if we know the shapes at the stations, could we set up a 1/4 scale strongback and glue 1/16 inch strips together over it? But we wouldn't be able to sand enough to get that smooth, really. Hmm.
Actually I may end up using your plan or something like it if I can't figure out another way to get offsets for the stems. Bearboat will print out offsets for the stations, but apparently the programmer normally sets up forms 4 inches apart and doesn't bother with stem forms. I can't afford that much plywood (I normally set forms 1 foot apart) and I can't picture polyisocyano-uranate foam being strong enough to hold the strips.
I got the bearboat design moved into Rhino but Rhino does so many things I'm having a hard time figuring out if one of them will turn out to be the thing I want.
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Date: 2010-12-04 01:40 am (UTC)The nice thing about the pre-sliced approach is after transferring the outlines to graph paper, you can put the model back together if you like and save it.
What I'm wondering is, if we know the shapes at the stations, could we set up a 1/4 scale strongback and glue 1/16 inch strips together over it? But we wouldn't be able to sand enough to get that smooth, really. Hmm.
Actually I may end up using your plan or something like it if I can't figure out another way to get offsets for the stems. Bearboat will print out offsets for the stations, but apparently the programmer normally sets up forms 4 inches apart and doesn't bother with stem forms. I can't afford that much plywood (I normally set forms 1 foot apart) and I can't picture polyisocyano-uranate foam being strong enough to hold the strips.
I got the bearboat design moved into Rhino but Rhino does so many things I'm having a hard time figuring out if one of them will turn out to be the thing I want.