On Oct 25, 2004, at 11:54 PM, Steve McKenzie wrote:
> Some time ago I saw a computer program which printed the developments
> on paper.
If you get in a corner I think you can make a spreadsheet to do the
calculation with Excel, then plot out the points with CAD software. The
arithmetic isn't all that hard, and I bet you could fit a spline to
just a few points and make a pattern that'd be fine for to burn out by
hand. You might even find that your CAD software will do the
intersection.
Of course, real engineers would lay it out on a drawing board like my old drafting book shows ;->
Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at chrisw@skypoint.com | this distance" (last words of Gen.
...................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania 1864)http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/ Received on Tue Oct 26 10:37:00 2004
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