Soooo... what I'm basically trying to do - step 1 - is to somehow digitise those first 2 formers that end up extruding a 3D shape that looks like this: i.e. 2 traces of the fuselage contour via the cross-section... then turned into a 3D printable 'mesh'' It will be hollow - the printer will print so...

Right now?

*embarrassed look*

The first bit - digitizing each former into a FreeCAD object so that I can assemble them at their correct offsets to produce a 3D object suitable for 3D printing as a hollow shell..

Example of a rather complicated cross-section...

Firstly - let me say a HUGE thanks to you guys who are helping me to try to learn this whole "CAD" thing. To many, it seems to be an intuitive thing. To people like me, it is not. I really appreciate your help. If the Mods feel that these posts should be under a different category, then pl...

Actually, I have already posted up the first 2 formers on page 1 of this topic.

The spacing between them is 66mm.

Thanks Tom - much appreciated. I'll send you scale sized JPGs of the first 2 nose cone formers and their Z-axis offset (distance apart). They're more or less circular and should't take much to trace for a skilled user. I'm assuming that the next step would be assemble them in 3D space with the corre...

Not very far, Sal.
Still can seem to get my head around FreeCAD.

Ok - I'll give that a try.

Thanks.

Installed .17 on the Laptop running Win 7.

All good