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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Offset to pattern software or a *PIC*
By:Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks
Date: 10/3/2016, 7:22 pm

Taking a table of offsets from a Yost SOF and creating a frame cutting pattern is not too har to be done by hand with a pencil and ruler.

It isn't exactly automated, but you can graph offset data with Excel scatter plots. You need to format the data into x and y.

I was just checking some old offsets from my first book that someone was questioning the accuracy. To that end I did a quick plot of the data she was unsure about.

The plot below is what I came up with. There are various ways to scale the graph so you can print out the correct size.

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: Offset to pattern software or autoimated hack?
Orcabait -- 10/3/2016, 10:33 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Offset to pattern software or a *PIC*
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 10/3/2016, 7:22 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Offset to pattern software or a
Jeff Horton (Kudzu Craft) -- 10/5/2016, 7:13 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Offset to pattern software or a
jaybabina -- 10/5/2016, 4:50 pm
replying to Orcabait - sorry wrong place *NM*
jaybabina -- 10/5/2016, 4:54 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Offset to pattern software or a
Bill Hamm -- 10/6/2016, 1:48 am