Useful Scripts

If you're interested, you'll find Mr. Stum at
...Rick
Greg Heilers wrote:

Hi Greg, as you probably know I'm a new model builder and new to the group. I followed your links and dl'ed them. I have Acrobat 5, not just the reader version but the full version. On the wrap.ps, distiller made me a nice wrap.pdf, the transition.ps didn't work out.
I'm probably the newest rocket modeler around and not the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to applying computer modeling to real life stuff.
What I'm getting at is...what do I do with this .pdf?
sorry for the ignorance.
eric

Well...without knowing exactly what values you plugged into it; and your computer you are using, I have no answer. If you have an application that will convert the .ps file to a .pdf file, then you are on the right track (by your posting, I assume you do). Just print the .pdf file on your printer. On transition.ps, the "length" value needs to be the vertical dimension from top to bottom, *not* the surface length of the transition. Also see my added notes to the script: If you use a "length" of "0.00"; and the *internal* diameter for tube 2....you get...
CENTERING RINGS!
:o)
Is transition.ps giving you *anything*? I ask, because on my system (Slackware Linux 10.1); I kept getting an error with the scripts. I emailed Matthew Stum with the details, and he attributed it to some changes to the basic .ps scripting language; since he wrote the original scripts. He had an updated version available within the next day.