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Frame Generator Question

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rkirk77
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Frame Generator Question

Hi Guys, 

I am using Frame Generator to make this airframe for a Pietenpol Air Camper.  I am having a bit of a problem when i comes to the bottom bow and cannot square up the bottom piece of wood (1" x 15/16").

This also promts me to ask another question.. why can I not use a 1 x 1 piece of wood in Frame Generator? It it the ANSI standard that limits it?

What am I missing?

Thanks again!

Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
Intel i7 870 @ 2.93 GHz
Nvidia GeForce 580 GTX 1536MB GDDR5
8 GB Ram
250GB HDD
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JavaLodge
in reply to: rkirk77

Once you place your vertical member on the left most line, you can use the Trim/Extend tool to square off that face to the next member.

As for the 1x1 wood, I'm guessing there's just not a lot of common wood shapes in the frame generator. I tried making a 2x4 frame the other day and had to end up using 2x4 rectangular tubing with a wood texture. It looked pretty silly, but I don't know how to add my own shapes to the frame generator. I know that it's possible, and it shouldn't take much searching to find a tutorial for that. Good luck, I hope this helps.
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swalton
in reply to: JavaLodge


@JavaLodge wrote:
Once you place your vertical member on the left most line, you can use the Trim/Extend tool to square off that face to the next member.

As for the 1x1 wood, I'm guessing there's just not a lot of common wood shapes in the frame generator. I tried making a 2x4 frame the other day and had to end up using 2x4 rectangular tubing with a wood texture. It looked pretty silly, but I don't know how to add my own shapes to the frame generator. I know that it's possible, and it shouldn't take much searching to find a tutorial for that. Good luck, I hope this helps.

Don't forget that Dimensional lumber is undersized.  2x4s are 1 1/2" x 3 1/2".  This may affect your member lengths.  See the dimensional lumber section of this wikipedia page:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumber#Dimensional_lumber

 

As for making your own frame generator profiles try:

http://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2014/ENU/?guid=GUID-D78D9AEB-0DE4-471C-ADBC-543669BEDB71

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOwR89pA_e8

 

I have never made a custom profile, so I can't say if these two links will help much...

 

Steve Walton
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JavaLodge
in reply to: swalton

Oh wow, thanks for catching that for me. Somewhere in the back of my head I knew that, and I had it in mind when making the frame but I didn't even think of how it would change some of the lengths. Thanks! Good thing I haven't started construction yet 🙂
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