On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 15:28:40 -0500, Wolf K
wrote:

On 2018-11-15 15:21, default wrote:
On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 09:14:21 -0500, Wolf K
wrote:

On 2018-11-15 05:50, Paul wrote:
Eric Stevens wrote:
On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 14:46:49 +1100, Peter Jason wrote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantograph
I have to engineer a wooden step to adapt
differing heights in two floors.* This has to fit
within the cut walls and meet up with skirting
boards etc.**** Is there an app to trace around
the relevant edges and so make a pattern on a
piece of timber for subsequent fret-sawing? It would be like a mouse,
I suppose.

THis is the kind of thing that boatbuilders have been doing for
millenia. Its not essentially a computer problem.

You can laser scan things if you really need
dimensions. But it's kinda overkill.

** Paul

A piece of boxboard and a pencil also works. Cut an oversize piece,
trace, then cut near the traced line, try again, and cut again. May have
to do that several times, but it will improve your manual dexterity, bonus!

:-)

Best,

That's what I was thinking. Anyone who's done some woodworking and
such has already learned to transfer shapes with just a pencil and
piece of wood.

We got along very well without computers for many years, yet now some
folks can't leave the house without checking the weather, roads, etc.,
when just a few years ago they'd never give it a thought.


We would just glance at the sky and sniff the air...

:-)

Yeah, and if it rained, so what? It's not the end of the world.