Re: [Flightgear-devel] svginstr (was: Re: Metapost for drawing instruments?)

2010-07-04 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sun, 4 Jul 2010, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Melchior FRANZ -- Sunday 13 June 2010: The main changes in v0.2 will be [...] ... gradients and screws, so far. Drawing a screw is as simple as a.at(0, -30).screw(0.12). This updated example has been drawn by a still quite simple torque.py driver

Re: [Flightgear-devel] svginstr

2010-07-04 Thread HB-GRAL
Melchior FRANZ schrieb: * Melchior FRANZ -- Sunday 13 June 2010: The main changes in v0.2 will be [...] ... gradients and screws, so far. Drawing a screw is as simple as a.at(0, -30).screw(0.12). This updated example has been drawn by a still quite simple torque.py driver file:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] svginstr

2010-07-04 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* HB-GRAL -- Sunday 04 July 2010: what is your reference for this torque instrument? A photo of a dual engine torque instrument used in a bo105 helicopter, somewhere from the net. This type is also closest to the one printed in the pilot manual, but there are at least two other types used in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] svginstr

2010-07-04 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Sunday 04 July 2010: A photo of a dual engine torque instrument used in a bo105 helicopter, somewhere from the net. This type is also closest to the one printed in the pilot manual, [...] Correction: The one in the manual only goes up to 110%. I took the marks from a photo,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] svginstr

2010-07-04 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sunday 04 July 2010 15:05:06 Melchior FRANZ wrote: BTW, the instrument is in RL mounted 90 degrees rotated to the left. Some bo105 have it rotated 45 degrees, and only few have it upright. I don't know for sure why that is the case. (It's rotated 90 deg even in the pilot manual's panel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] svginstr

2010-07-04 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* HB-GRAL -- Sunday 04 July 2010: what is your reference for this torque instrument? This may have been the (main) reference: http://www.airliners.net/photo/Generalitat-de-Catalunya/MBB-BO-105CBS-5/0438320/L/ * Ron Jensen -- Monday 05 July 2010: This is probably to make the needle point

Re: [Flightgear-devel] svginstr

2010-07-04 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sunday 04 July 2010 16:26:30 Melchior FRANZ wrote: * HB-GRAL -- Sunday 04 July 2010: what is your reference for this torque instrument? This may have been the (main) reference: http://www.airliners.net/photo/Generalitat-de-Catalunya/MBB-BO-105CBS-5/043 8320/L/ * Ron Jensen -- Monday