Drawing the TAIL FIN
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- Start a new Design
- From the View menu choose Plan
- With the Create Straight
tool draw a horizontal line to the right from the centre of the green arrow. (Holding down the SHIFT key restrains lines to the vertical or horizontal.)
- Move the cursor over the line and double click the right mouse button.
- In the Properties box set the length of line to 9 metres.
- Select OK (Due to the size the line is not visible.)
- From the View menu choose Autoscale to see the line from the centre of the green arrow
- Construct a vertical line from the green arrow/horizontal line which slopes to the right
- Select the Constrain Size
tool
- Select the vertical line and drag to the side. This will gives a dimension which constrains the length of the line
- Double click on the line
- In the Properties box set the line length to 6 metres
- Select OK.
- Right click the mouse button in the drawing area and choose View menu and select Autoscale.
- With the Create Straight
tool draw a horizontal line from the top of the 6 metres line.
- Make the line 3.5 metres long using a Constraint
- Draw a line from the right-hand end of the above line to the right-hand end of the 9 metre line. This will give the basic shape of the tail fin.
- Select the front sloped line using the Select Line
tool and with the arc cursor, drag the line inwards to give a curve.
- To complete the shape of the fin, fillet the top front corner.
- Select the Fillet Lines
tool
- In the Properties box enter 0.5 metres
- Move the cursor to the point where the curved line meets the top horizontal line. Both lines will turn blue and the cursor icon changes. Hold the left mouse button down and drag inwards to produce the fillet.
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