help with nose cone for model aircraft

[danielbaker1981]

can anyone advise how to create this as a hollow shape to 3d print it. i cannot find any tutorial's on it as it is quite a odd shape. any help would be much appreciated.

[jeff_strater]

you have a duplicate thread here:  help-with-creating-a-nose-cone-for-a-model-aeroplane - let's keep the discussion on this thread if we can to avoid duplicate responses.

The short answer is Loft to a Point, screencast coming soon

[jeff_strater]

here is a quick screencast.  If the starting shape is not exactly a circle (say, an ellipse), you can use different geometry.  But, the key is to loft to a point, with "point tangent" specified, then use Shell to make it hollow

[danielbaker1981]

Thanks Jeff,

would it possible to do it to a conic curve? as the nose cone is is not same shape all the way round.

thanks again

[jeff_strater]

you should be able to do any kind of curve you want for the large end.  If by "conic" curve, you mean Fusion's conic curve, yes, that should work, but I think you'd have to make two of them.  If it were me, I would probably just use a fit point spline or a control point spline for that use.  You'll have to do some precise measurement and likely a lot of trial and error to get it to fit correctly, but it should be possible from a modeling point of view.