Thanks, Jon!! I've been stuck for 2 months on my Postal Jeep model because I can't figure out how to shape the sides of the hood.
Paul M. ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 2:55 PM Subject: [Papermodels II 35248] Re: Need help with how to measure correctly... http://jleslie48.com/cone/index.html --- On Tue, 3/24/09, Paul McCool <[email protected]> wrote: From: Paul McCool <[email protected]> Subject: [Papermodels II 35244] Re: Need help with how to measure correctly... To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 3:21 PM I can do cylinders and circles all day long. What kicks my tail is cones.Paul M.----- Original Message ----- From: "jleslie48" <[email protected]>To: "Papermodels II" <[email protected]>Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 5:36 AMSubject: [Papermodels II 35220] Re: Need help with how to measure correctly...>> from http://jleslie48.com/faq.html :>> ...> Now, think about a cylinder, it has a height, and if you look at it> from the top, it is a circle. Now take a pair of scissors and slice up> the side, It unrolls into a rectangle. one set of sides of the> rectangle are the height of the cylinder, and the other sides have a> relationship to the diameter of the recently destroyed circle. Back to> Ms Hinchleys class, the side in question represents the CIRCUMFERENCE> of the circle, which has the formula,>> circumference= 2(pi)Radius = (pi)Diameter where>> pi is a very specific value approximately 3.1415. We'll skip the> discussion on where the 3.1415 came from, but trust me on this. Well> now the cylinders of a rocket, at any scale, in any unit of measure> are a mere mathematical calculation away. With MS Word, I can now make> the circles and rectangles exactly those dimensions, and,...>>>>>> On Mar 23, 11:00 pm, abbe <[email protected]> wrote:>> Hi All,>> I'm kind of new to this and need some help. I am trying to make a>> straight piece so I can put it around a circle (like how a drum would>> look)- can you tell me how I should mathematically measure this>> please? Anyone know? I remember that it's a formula of some sort-just>> forgot what it was. Thanks ahead of time. Also, I am creating a hand>> our of paper and it's not going to well I am having problems>> determining how to measure for some of the fingers? Anyone have any>> suggestions? Hope someone will have some very good advice for me here.>> Thanks so much!>> abbe> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
