Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Rhino......

Hi Peter,

As for me, I understand orthogonal projection pretty well. As A machine
designer/draftsman for over 30 years, i've made my share of both isometric
and ortho drawings. Sometimes drawing all six views as well as sections,
compound angle projections, etc.

One of the things I ran acroos in the "trade" was drawings from overseas
(Europe) where the projections were in reverse of the way it's done in the
US. This takes a lot of though sometimes to figure out what the person drew
when a compound angle sectional projection is drawn "upside down and/or
backwards" (to us).

I'm having trouble understanding exactly what it is your trying to do.
Perhaps this is due to something of a similar nature where your describing
something that sounds plain to you but comes acroos in "Greek" to others?

Based on what you've just said about a "cartoon" unfolding into a flat plane
gives me a much better picture.
I'm sure there is a simple way of doing this with RHINO (I have the actual
program..not the demo) but I haven't looked into it to much 'cause I've been
really busy working on the Dreammachine and other projects.

If I get a chance to, i'll look into it for you. Just what panes do you
need to make transparent...and why?

Smoke

>
>
>Thanks for all the suggestions. Please bear with me
>while I explain further. (CAM experts please bear with
>us. This is the CAD part of CAD_CAM_....) I have found
>many people find it difficult to grasp orthogonal
>projection. In the States, I think they have tried to
>make life easy by just sticking to third angle
>projection (I see from books they don't even mention
>Third Angle and just call everything multiview. Over
>here, we have to struggle with third angle and first
>angle, and boy, do we get confused!!! Thanks to our
>colonial master. So what I hope to do is to draw a
>series of "cartoon" showing the views unfolding to a
>flat plane. That's the reason for the rectangles
>and/or the glass panes. If diversion time from this
>CAM quest permit, and when bandwidth capability of the
>web catches up with our ambitions, I hope to learn
>enough about animation to make it almost like a video
>(so many toys, so little time). Ancient Chinese wisdom
>- "a video is worth a trillion words" copyright Wise
>Guy 2001. Remember to quote me if you ever quoted for
>this saying from now on.
>
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