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    • KrisidiousK Offline
      Krisidious
      last edited by

      yes

      create the cylnder...

      select the top circle...

      select the scale tool...

      scale about the corners... should create a cone.

      By: Kristoff Rand
      Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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      • N Offline
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        last edited by

        To taper a cylinder, you simply need to scale the face at one end either larger or smaller. But I think there's more to the shape of an airplane fuselage than a tapered cylinder.

        See what you think of this:

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        -Gully

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          alan wood
          last edited by

          Hi guys,
          I think there were a few people on the old forum who did a teach package on this. I think, one was Jean Lemire who is a member of this forum.

          Alan.

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          • GaieusG Offline
            Gaieus
            last edited by

            Hi 3eighty,

            Gully's tuts are very intuitive, I'd suggest it to you .
            I also made a tut about tapering into a non-parallel shape (see it here) but for a fuselage a simple follow me would also do it. However an airplane body is not axisymmetrical (correct my English, Gully, if the term is not correct, please...)

            Gai...

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              dylan
              last edited by

              Again, nice simple effective tut Gulley, good stuff!

              Another way to taper a cylinder similar to Kris's method is to highlite the top edge and in the Entity Info box and change the circle radius.

              http://dmdarchitecture.co.uk/

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              • KrisidiousK Offline
                Krisidious
                last edited by

                speaking of that dylan, have you ever wished you could change the square footage manually, by typing in that info box?

                By: Kristoff Rand
                Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                  3eighty
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                  As always a BIG thank you to you all...Off to play now..

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                    dylan
                    last edited by

                    @unknownuser said:

                    speaking of that dylan, have you ever wished you could change the square footage manually, by typing in that info box?

                    I have never actually thought of that, but now you mention it..

                    http://dmdarchitecture.co.uk/

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                    • KrisidiousK Offline
                      Krisidious
                      last edited by

                      I can never get an acre to be an arce by drawing it. in a square... it's always off just a little in square feet...

                      if I could type it in that would be great... but then it would have to push it'self out along some edge and chose that edge.

                      ahhh to wish

                      By: Kristoff Rand
                      Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                      • GaieusG Offline
                        Gaieus
                        last edited by

                        I don't have any problem with hectars though (100 metres by 100 metres = 10,000 square metres).
                        Why don't you convert to some more logical measurement units?!
                        πŸ˜„

                        Gai...

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                        • Jean LemireJ Offline
                          Jean Lemire
                          last edited by

                          Hi folks.

                          See attached SU file. This an acre with an error of about 0.0000004 %.

                          Just ideas.

                          Acre.skp

                          Jean (Johnny) Lemire from Repentigny, Quebec, Canada.

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                          • KrisidiousK Offline
                            Krisidious
                            last edited by

                            @gaieus said:

                            I don't have any problem with hectars though (100 metres by 100 metres = 10,000 square metres).
                            Why don't you convert to some more logical measurement units?!
                            πŸ˜„

                            from your lips to our goverment's ears... we pray...

                            By: Kristoff Rand
                            Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                            • KrisidiousK Offline
                              Krisidious
                              last edited by

                              yes Jean, that's very good... but you've got your units set to decimal. so it's for some reason much more accurate.

                              I'm set on imperial... so taking Jean's que...

                              I took his? drawing... and converted it to imperial. and then it's exactly an acre. or 43,560 sq. ft.

                              so I guess if an imperial person wants a precise drawing, we need to draw in decimal then convert to imperial....

                              well thanks for the work around Jean... boy or girl, not sure?

                              don't take offense, my name is Kris with a K so I know...

                              By: Kristoff Rand
                              Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                              • jujuJ Offline
                                juju
                                last edited by

                                Looking at the signature it reads "(Johnny)" so I guess Jean is male and not female then. πŸ˜‰

                                Save the Earth, it's the only planet with chocolate.

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                                • Jean LemireJ Offline
                                  Jean Lemire
                                  last edited by

                                  Hi folks.

                                  Yes, I use Johnny with my English speaking friends.

                                  Jean is the french for John.

                                  Jean (Johnny) Lemire from Repentigny, Quebec, Canada.

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