Hi all.
New to this 3D printing game, and keen as mustard to give it a crack.
I'm trying to create a 3D model airframe suitable for 3D printing using FreeCAD.
It's the old fashioned way, where I have a set of cross-sections and a plan to lay the sections along on in their correct positions.
One would then use balsa sheeting on the outside of the airframe to produce the finished product.
I'd like to try to 3D print my aircraft - but first I have to get all the cross-sections into FreeCAD, assemble them accordingly, and then 'extrude' the model from that.
I gather that I'll have to trace over each cross-section to produce a usable part, then somehow assemble them in their correct positions.
I've seen a YouTube tutorial where the guy creates .png files in Gimp, then imports them into FreeCAD and creates the 3D model.
I notice that FreeCAD also has a trace function, where you can import an image file and do the tracing part in FreeCAD itself. Not having a lot of luck in that department at the moment, and I'm hoping someone in this Forum can point me in the right direction.
Learning how to use FreeCAD is a bit of daunting task - hope I can get a few tips on how to go about creating a print file and finally printing it out on my new 3D printer.
Looking forward to hearing from you...
Kind regards,
Tony.