Plop Cell Designer Help Reqd

Can any shed some light on the "Support Ring" output obtained from Plop?

I'm just tinkering with some cell figures and am looking at an 18 point
cell. This requires that the mirror is divided into 12 portions on an outer
support ring and 6 on the inner ring. My question is how do I interpret the
radius and angle figures that Plop give into something I can draw on a piece
of paper?

For example I get...
Ring 1
Num of points = 6
Radius = 0.399586
Angle = 0

Ring 2
Num of points = 12
Radius = 0.834338
Angle = 15

I just want to know how I might divide my circle up for positioning of the
various triangle supports and bars.

Cheers
Andy

Hi Andy,

If you give me a bit more information, I can model it in 3D and issue you
with some drawings.

Simon Miller
www.cubethree dot co dot uk


"Andy Dix" reply@to_newsgroup wrote in message
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Can any shed some light on the "Support Ring" output obtained from Plop?

I'm just tinkering with some cell figures and am looking at an 18 point
cell. This requires that the mirror is divided into 12 portions on an
outer support ring and 6 on the inner ring. My question is how do I
interpret the radius and angle figures that Plop give into something I can
draw on a piece of paper?

For example I get...
Ring 1
Num of points = 6
Radius = 0.399586
Angle = 0

Ring 2
Num of points = 12
Radius = 0.834338
Angle = 15

I just want to know how I might divide my circle up for positioning of the
various triangle supports and bars.

Cheers
Andy

Simon Miller wrote:
If you give me a bit more information, I can model it in 3D and issue you
with some drawings.

Does this mean that you know how to interpret the Plop figures?
If you don't, how would you be able to model it better than I?

I can guess but that wasn't what I was after.
Thanks for the offer though.

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Regards
Andy

Andy Dix wrote:
Can any shed some light on the "Support Ring" output obtained from Plop?
For example I get...
Radius = 0.399586
Radius = 0.834338
I just want to know how I might divide my circle up for positioning of the
various triangle supports and bars.

Right I think I've found the answer to my own question.
If I multiply the radius of my mirror by the radius figure given by Plop for
each "ring" I seem to get the correct support rings to line everything up
with.

At least I know what I'm going on about even if nobody else does. ;o)

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Regards
Andy

Andy Dix wrote:
Andy Dix wrote:
Can any shed some light on the "Support Ring" output obtained from
Plop? For example I get...
Radius = 0.399586
Radius = 0.834338
I just want to know how I might divide my circle up for positioning
of the various triangle supports and bars.

Right I think I've found the answer to my own question.
If I multiply the radius of my mirror by the radius figure given by
Plop for each "ring" I seem to get the correct support rings to line
everything up with.

At least I know what I'm going on about even if nobody else does. ;o)

Not sure you need to do this.

Instead of computing the support ring radii in terms of relative radii which
is what you seem to have done, change it to absolute radii. In Plop Cell
DesignerCell Type tab, change Support Radii from Relative to Absolute....
While you're on this tab you probably want Variable Angles on Supports
checked.

I assume you're taking your figures from the Cell Parts and Part Dimensions
forms, rather than main Plop Cell Designer form. I find the former much
easier to work with.

Regards
Chef!

Chef! wrote:
Instead of computing the support ring radii in terms of relative radii
which is what you seem to have done, change it to absolute radii. In Plop
Cell DesignerCell Type tab, change Support Radii from Relative to
Absolute.... While you're on this tab you probably want Variable Angles on
Supports checked.

I assume you're taking your figures from the Cell Parts and Part
Dimensions forms, rather than main Plop Cell Designer form. I find the
former much easier to work with.

Yes you're absolutely correct. Thanks for the pointers.

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Regards
Andy

Andy Dix wrote:

Yes you're absolutely correct. Thanks for the pointers

Happy to help.

Feel free to email me off-group if you have any other questions.

Regards
Chef!