After a much too long hiatus from building, I've finally made parts to get started again. I'm hoping to make 2016 a return to flying and building year, starting with getting the LE finished. Recently got a new tool in my shop, so I figure if it's going to use up shop space, I might as well put it to use - problem is it takes longer to pick up and bag the pieces and keep them separate than it takes to cut them now! It's still faster than making them all by hand though!
Chris, can you make the nose ribs with that? Looks like it would make them no problem.
@ Vince and @dz1sfb (Ken). I scanned the rib from the plans and drew the outline in Sketchup. I think I then saved it as an EPS and it was imported into Illustrator. Probably should have skipped sketchup as it creates too many rough edges due to Polygon methodology of drawing. The curves were smoothed out and dimensioning checked. We then added .5 mm to the outside edge to allow for sanding away the burn marks for better glue adhesion. The rib was just manually nested in Illustrator. The ribs that were clipped were deleted before the cutting run. I think from memory we could nest about up to 74 ribs on a 4' X 4' sheet of ply. far too many so i had them delete some and was able to use some of the timber for other items. In other words very efficient. The cutting took 1 hour 26 minutes. Cheers Pauk
Ken as to your question "I was wondering if Nose Ribs were getting the lower corner clipped?" Page 42 Shows the nose rib full size. The bottom where it touches the spar is clipped. Dwg. calls it "drain cut" Some people would refer to it as a weep. A condensation drain Tom XL-7