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Cut / Guide lines for tubular construction
Alright so I need some help making this process easier…
Every now and again I find myself working on something involving tubes and it’s always a headache to figure out the line for the cut or for grinding.
(Example: You have a piece of metal tubing 4cm in diameter and u want to weld it to another piece of metal tubing that measures 6cm in diameter at a 60 degree angle)
Normally I just eyeball it and grind till I get it close enough but that doesn’t always work out very well. So instead of just getting more frustrated I tried thinking about ways I could come up with a guide… I remembered a process I saw one time dealing with cutting out patterns and templates for a hovercraft skirt. After playing with that idea for awhile I came up with a way to make a guide line that I could wrap around the pipe I was cutting to give me my cut Line.
(This link should take you to a picture of the process I’m using right now)
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when you’re finished you’ll have a weird looking curve and if you wrap that around the tube your cutting it’ll show you your cut line.
So here’s the part I need help with… I want to make this process quicker and easier to make it more practical. Ideally I’d like some way of making some sort of simple program that I can just plug in the data and it’ll show me the cut line. Now I’ve looked around online for techniques people use to do this but I haven’t really found anything. So if someone knows of something that would work better that would be great as well.
Thanks-