French longboat of the 18th century 05

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And here it is, a solemn moment. The theoretical drawing has been exported to Acad, where it will be “sliced” into parts. What bad? The process is quite time-consuming. What good? The accuracy of the parts obtained is plus or minus 0.05 mm ….

Now I can make frames and I can determine their shape and size.

In the Acad 2000, the frame acquisition process is a manual operation for each frame. With the Trim command, I cut off the lines of the theoretical drawing at the location of the future frame and connect the ends of the cuted lines with each other to get the frame.

To be continue…

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