I am working on a modeling project and would appreciate any help from some Autocad savvy users. The project entails generating a root and tip airfoil section for a wing. These sections will be done in the form of a polyline. The tip section is smaller in length and width than the root section. Once generated, the sections will be laid out along the Z axis the length of the wing panel. I would then like to generate a 3D model of the wing. One the 3D model is generated, I would then like to extract cross sections of the wing that can be saved as a seperate entity and exported for laser cutting.
So far, I have been able to do the following:
- Generate the root and tip section polylines. These are closed polylines.
- Move the tip section polylines to a distance on the Z axis that corresponds to the length of the wing.
- Generate a surface between the root and tip section.
I have not been able to generate a 3D solid from the root and tip polylines, nor have I been able to figure out a way to slice out cross sections for later use.
CAD version is Autocad 2002.
Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
v/r - Bob Kruger