Additional Material (Win32 application) (Beta available in January 2006) first created 09/11/05 - last modified 29/11/05 Page Author: Ty Harness

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Figure XX - Changing the number of divisions in the round

A silly example of a square to round with no height - it's just a plate with a hole in but it highlights the truncation error of the triangulation. The more divisions in the circle not only mean a smoother curve but reduces the cumulative error of the triangulation process.

Figure XX - Changing the height of the front elevation

Something you would probably never do on a drawing board is experiment with changing the properties. I was just curious to see how the true lengths pull the flat pattern around.

Figure XX - Changing the round diameter

Again it is easy to imagine that square gives a pyramid. I have got a rectangle-to-rectangle application in the works at the moment which is useful for tapered skips,wheel barrows etc. You often find tapering required for stacking reasons and mould making for releasing the material from the mould.

Figure XX - Minimum Bounding Box Area Calculation

If you've got a plasma or a laser cutting machine tool then you'll want to nest the pattern to reduce material wastage but for one-offs or you've only a guillotine then the minimum bounding box is the next best thing.

Figure XX - Use the faces to make up tetrahedrons

Figure XX - Sum up all the Tetrahedrons to determine the internal Volume

Figure XX - Robot Shoes - only available in chrome

Figure XX - Encad NovaJetII plotter

Figure XX - Encad NovaJetII - A typical large scale plotter will give a highly accurate plot suitable for making scaled patterns.

Figure XX - Sample picture description here

Figure XX - Sample picture description here