Sheet Metal Forming for Aircraft skins

[AllyBill]

Originally Posted by tfindlow

It's not suppose to bulge -- this is my first attempt at getting a panel that lines up with the tangents at the adjacent edges; it would be nice to get a lovely convex shape that meets all the constraints - I just haven't figured out how to sweet-talk Rhino into giving me that. I've been trying to get the MatchSrf command to do the job - but as you can see the result is a little off true.

Without knowing anything about your project I may be a mile off the mark here but I would be looking towards some string and MDF and a tape measure on the workbench to see if I could turn that into something simple to make.

Will