Damn, that's BRILLIANT! Paul M.
----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 4:59 PM Subject: [Papermodels II 35258] Re: Need help with how to measure correctly... If you look here: http://jleslie48.com/cone/scaledown02_satv.xls on sheet 2 of the spreadsheet is the cone-o-matic in excel format. on the bottom of that sheet is a normalizer for the angle created. the idea is once you have the angle, say 148º, you can draw the angle as a composite of a triangle with an angle of 148-90 == 58º sitting on top of a rectangle (the 90º part) . the idea was to draw some basic shapes with microsoft word to make the angle, and then put a circle on top of it so you have the exact arc. You put the rectangle down, and then you add a right triangle so that the right corner point is on the top right corner of the rectangle. the side of the triangle that is shared by the rectangle is the adjacent side, and the tall tall side is the opposite. You can set those heights exactly in MS word. then you take the donut circle drawer and make a circle with its center right on that same upper right corner of the triangle. its actually a big nothing, takes 4 minutes. The hardest part is putting MS Word in MM and not inches. All bets are off though for MS WORD 2007. I threw that one away a long time ago. --- On Tue, 3/24/09, Paul McCool <[email protected]> wrote: From: Paul McCool <[email protected]> Subject: [Papermodels II 35253] Re: Need help with how to measure correctly... To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 7:06 PM 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
