CAD files needed.

Fritz Kempf · 24 June 2009, 04:33 PM

Hay guys I’m looking for some 3 view (top, side, and front) scale CAD files on Fokker aircraft for a little project I’m doing in my very limited spare time. In particular I’m looking for a Spider, EIII, Dr1, DVII, and the D VIII. I need them to be in a DXF or DWG format; if anyone knows who may have these it would be a big help.

Thanks.

Ed

Laserlloyd · 24 June 2009, 05:06 PM

Fritz Kempf;

I have seen some of them on an Cad site but they were for sale about $100.00. There are some 3D guys here but I don't know if they would just give it way.

Lloyd...

Fritz Kempf · 24 June 2009, 05:53 PM

Buy drawings I mean just the line drawings of the out side like the silouette drawings you find in books. Thanks for the responce.

Ed

hank jarrett · 24 June 2009, 06:13 PM

Ed,
I have some pretty good size drawings of each of those planes. Do you know where I can get a decent share ware viewer I can use to save scans in .dwg format with? My old Autocad programs are so out of date they run on DOS.
Hank

Fritz Kempf · 24 June 2009, 06:24 PM

Wow... DOS????

that is old I have seen viewers but not sure if they go back that far and they don't let you save only print. Do you have these already saved as DWGs? If so maybe my CAD will open it.

Thanks

Ed

jumpinjan · 24 June 2009, 06:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fritz Kempf

Buy drawings I mean just the line drawings of the out side like the silouette drawings you find in books.

You can use Corel Draw on some 3-view drawings and make the outlines yourself. Easily exported in DXF or DWG.
Jan

van der Laan · 24 June 2009, 07:33 PM

Hmm, Ed are we cutting out door knockers for the workshop or something? I can give you DXFs of each, do you need absolutely accurate or just approximations?

Fritz Kempf · 25 June 2009, 04:18 AM

Hay Mike, approximations are fine, and no door knockers yet

I'm doing some hanger drawings and want to use them for spacing help. So if they are accurate with in a foot that would be fine.

hank jarrett · 25 June 2009, 07:06 AM

What I have are paper drawings I would scan and convert to .dwg files (if I had something to convert it with). I don't know of any scanners that save scans in .dwg.
Hank

Yea, DOS is old, but I started out in FORTRAN, CPM 85, Altair Basic.... on an 8086 machine (hated them all). How about a Noun Verb system in the AGC? That one landed us on the moon.

You work with what you got. Now I'm the most computer illiterate engineer in the office! Getting old is a BUGGER!

Flamingo · 25 June 2009, 10:31 AM

If you scan paper drawings they are bmp or jpg - i.e. pixels. To get dxf files you have to import them into a vector program, Corel Draw, Inkscape etc and retrace them to get vector curves which can be exported as dxf or dwg files.
Coral has a vectorizing tool but the results are fairly useless.
If anyone has a faster method to create vector or dxf files from paper scans I would love to learn about it as redrawing is quite time consuming!