Designing Cardmodels - Paragon Style

[Paragon]

Oh, btw, mods, any chance of moving this to the Tutorial section? It looks like it belongs there.

[edi]

Originally Posted by Paragon

....... Do you plan on releasing it?

it`s already done

[jaffro]

Originally Posted by Paragon

Oh, btw, mods, any chance of moving this to the Tutorial section? It looks like it belongs there.

Done... with a permanent redirect from the original location... better late than never.

[Arjun]

I've been looking at the Swing Wing section of the Instructions page. I have a MiG-23 (or MiG-27) in mind, and I'd like to know how to get the right shape for the inner (gear) parts.

[Lex]

...Trial and error I suppose?...

[Paragon]

It was part trial and error, but I also did a lot of measuring out of circles. Find the focal point on which the wing will pivot, then create a circle that will overlap the same circle on the other wing. Make sure the center is anchored around the wing's focal point, of course. Then draw a second smaller circle inside the first, but it should end where at the edge of the other wing's large circle. The large circle represents the tip of each tooth in the cog, and the smaller circle is the trough between each tooth. Draw one tooth, then duplicate as many times as necessary, and put them around the rest of the cog. Make sure, of course, to offset the opposite wing by one tooth, otherwise the wings will end up at different angles.