RE: Autocad 14 and solids help needed

From: Jim Carruthers (jcarruth@leevalley.com)
Date: Mon Nov 23 1998 - 14:53:19 EET


On Saturday, November 21, 1998 11:32 PM, Edu
[SMTP:cdeliebana@ciudad.com.ar] wrote:
> Is there someone in the list who could help me about creating solids with
> AutoCAD 14?
> My problem is to create wings and propellers, with changing airfoils,
chords
> and angles spanwise. I was able to create the wireframes W/O problems,
and
> even to create the solids by extruding many airfoils sections, but the
> created solid is not smooth enough for prototyping purposes.
> Advanced thanks
> Eduardo Molfino
> edumolfino@ciudad.com.ar
> http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/5187/index.html
>
>
>
> For more information about the rp-ml, see http://ltk.hut.fi/rp-ml/

Odds are if you're trying to do this with AutoCAD, you can't afford Catia
or Styler, so Rhino would likely be your best bet. NURBS were designed for
doing exactly that type of thing.

Jim

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Canica Design
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Hydraulic Design http://vsynth.carleton.ca/~jcarrut/
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For more information about the rp-ml, see http://ltk.hut.fi/rp-ml/



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