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How to make a Cone ?

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Hello All

Does anyone here know how to make a "cone" like the little orange ones
you see at the airport. I use FSDS3 . I know I can get one on Avsim I think in a pack but I want one I can make to my liking.

Mike
 
Hi,

In GMAX you could use the lofting method.
I read via Google that you can use in FSDS the clone technique.
Hope that's helps a little.

Greetz. José.
 
José

Thank you for responding. Im so new at this design stuff Im not sure what
exactly your talking about. (sorry) Can you please give me a brief description
of the idea ?

Thanks again
Mike
 
Hi,

This is for GMAX: "Building a Nosecone with lofting techniques
This short approximately 8 minute flash video walks you through using spline shapes to create a rough nosecone that is easily modified for desired finish."

Via Google: "FS alpha", where a lot of interesing video tutorials can be dowloaded.

I thin you can make a cone on another way with GMAX with the "non-uniform scale tool".

Greetz. José.
 
mbaviator said:
Hello All

Does anyone here know how to make a "cone" like the little orange ones
you see at the airport. I use FSDS3 . I know I can get one on Avsim I think in a pack but I want one I can make to my liking.

Mike
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Why not simply create a vertical cylinder, and then shrink/weld all the top vertices? Or is that to simple? :eek:
 
FSDS *has* a cone primitive.

Other than that, if you want to get fancy with a rounded "top", it's a vertical cylinder with several sections, all sections "bunched" at the top and scaled in turn to "round off".

Actually, that's that same way I would build it in gmax or FSDS....

Now, if you want a nice soft ice cream cone swirl, THEN you can have a lot of fun in max/gmax with a twist modifer....
 
n4gix said:
Why not simply create a vertical cylinder, and then shrink/weld all the top vertices? Or is that to simple? :eek:
Click to expand...

YES! that's too easy. We're FSDS luddites! We LIKE to complicate things!


<all: above is to be taken humorously - it is a continuation of a cross-forum running banter with Fr. Bill - call it... I'm his cross to bear>
 
Mike,

In case you haven't yet got it figured out, here's one that I just made, along with the .fsc file.

I know it looks like it's on steroids, but it only took a couple of minutes to make.

Larry
 
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Traffic Cone

Thanks Larry, just what I was looking for! You haven't got one with 2 white stripes have you? LOL Just joking!
 
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