how to print plans where there is only 1 half of wing?

[Anton005]

Hi,
I've done a couple ft builds from scratch where I print the plans myself, all was good... Now I've run into a couple where they only give the plans for half of the wing and your supposed to somehow reverse the template to use on the other half. Is there a way to print a reversed copy? I mean I could stick it on to my foamboard backwards, but the marks will be on the inside. I don't understand why they started doing this???

Any help would be great.

Anton

 

[JasonK]

I haven't seen any FT plans that don't have both wings in them. you could just flip the paper over after cutting it out and cut out again if there truly isn't a second wing in the plans.

 

[Anton005]

It's the ft explorer, first time I have seen that in any of the plans. I thought about that, but after I do the cuts for the bending creases on the airfoil my pattern comes off in many pieces.

If I can't figure out any other way I guess I'll have to piece it back together and put it on reverse. Actually thinking about it, re-taping it would be easy while it's stuck to the foam still.

Thanks,
Anton

 

[AIRFORGE]

Hi,
I've done a couple ft builds from scratch where I print the plans myself, all was good... Now I've run into a couple where they only give the plans for half of the wing and your supposed to somehow reverse the template to use on the other half. Is there a way to print a reversed copy? I mean I could stick it on to my foamboard backwards, but the marks will be on the inside. I don't understand why they started doing this???

Any help would be great.

Anton

Maybe someone can upload a reversed wing file for you.

 

[JasonK]

look at that... they don't have both wings in the plans... you can just flip it over.. there isn't any marking that would be hard to use with it flipped over.

 

[Anton005]

look at that... they don't have both wings in the plans... you can just flip it over.. there isn't any marking that would be hard to use with it flipped over.

I have a hard enough time following the lines with my exacto when I can see them, if they are on the opposite side there is no way! and I was planning on using the black foam board.

 

[Ratcheeroo]

I have a hard enough time following the lines with my exacto when I can see them, if they are on the opposite side there is no way! and I was planning on using the black foam board.

I use black foam board , I print my plans full scale on a PET film and cut them out so that I can reuse without having to print again, and I can share with my buds. This is what I do - I cut notches on the pattern piece to indicate whatever mark I need to replicate when I flip over the pattern piece, here are a couple of pics of a simple example that should be close to your wing

 

[Ratcheeroo]

I use black foam board , I print my plans full scale on a PET film and cut them out so that I can reuse without having to print again, and I can share with my buds. This is what I do - I cut notches on the pattern piece to indicate whatever mark I need to replicate when I flip over the pattern piece, here are a couple of pics of a simple example that should be close to your wing View attachment 199373 View attachment 199374

and here's an example of something that has a servo placement and wind spar placement

 

[AIRFORGE]

Try this, @Anton005 .

 

[Indy durtdigger]

I tape the templates to the foam board and trace the outline while marking where the cut lines are on the border. I remove the template and finish drawing all the lines on the foam board before cutting out, this way I can reuse the templates for repairs or rebuilds. In the case of the Explorer I marked where the very edge of lines needed to be on the back side of the template so I knew where to mark them when when it was flipped over.

 

[Anton005]

Well I can tell you how not to do it now... I used the plans as normal, spray adhesive and stuck em to the foam, cut some of the lines, but tried to not cut all of them so it would somewhat stay together. Then I taped a bunch of it back together, sprayed the front (while it was still kind of attached, this was my mistake) and tried to get it off and flipped over onto the other foam board... it didn't go very well. I should have removed it from the board, then sprayed it. It kind of turned into a big sticky mess, but I did manage to get it sorted out.

The first flights with the aileron wing on the ft explorer went about as well... maybe not as well actually. I had to really fight to keep it from diving all the time. I tried giving it more up thrust on the motor, which helped a bit, but also seemed to make it fly a lot less efficient and I still had to fight to keep it from wanting to pitch down. It flew pretty good with the big floater polyhedral wing, I actually had the reverse problem, it always wanted to climb which I could deal with.

Anyway, thanks for the help, next time I'll just cut out the outline and use the pattern like that without cutting all the internal lines.

Anton

 

[Anton005]

Try this, @Anton005 .

Awesome, how did you do that? Do you need full adobe software?

Thanks a bunch!

Anton

 

[AIRFORGE]

Awesome, how did you do that? Do you need full adobe software?

Thanks a bunch!

Anton

No, Sir. I used Inkscape. I made an svg of the original months ago, and just flipped it, and saved it as a pdf.
It would be easy to just flip the original pdf, and save, too.

 

[NovaScotiaMatt]

I've been building for about a year, even when the plans come with 2 wings I still only use one.

Instead of cutting along the crease lines I poke holes along it spaced every few inches using a pushpin. After removing the template you can use a straight edge to trace those line s, which leaves your original template in tact. You can then flip it for a mirror image and poke through the same holes used before. It works best on dark foam board but definitely still works on white.

Just don't poke all the way through, only the side you're going to score.

This was my first post on here I hope it was helpful!

 

[Paracodespoder]

I've been building for about a year, even when the plans come with 2 wings I still only use one.

Instead of cutting along the crease lines I poke holes along it spaced every few inches using a pushpin. After removing the template you can use a straight edge to trace those line s, which leaves your original template in tact. You can then flip it for a mirror image and poke through the same holes used before. It works best on dark foam board but definitely still works on white.

Just don't poke all the way through, only the side you're going to score.

This was my first post on here I hope it was helpful!

This is exactly what I do as well, use it for fuselage parts and anything else that folds or creases

 

[Ratcheeroo]

Well I can tell you how not to do it now... I used the plans as normal, spray adhesive and stuck em to the foam, cut some of the lines, but tried to not cut all of them so it would somewhat stay together. Then I taped a bunch of it back together, sprayed the front (while it was still kind of attached, this was my mistake) and tried to get it off and flipped over onto the other foam board... it didn't go very well. I should have removed it from the board, then sprayed it. It kind of turned into a big sticky mess, but I did manage to get it sorted out.

The first flights with the aileron wing on the ft explorer went about as well... maybe not as well actually. I had to really fight to keep it from diving all the time. I tried giving it more up thrust on the motor, which helped a bit, but also seemed to make it fly a lot less efficient and I still had to fight to keep it from wanting to pitch down. It flew pretty good with the big floater polyhedral wing, I actually had the reverse problem, it always wanted to climb which I could deal with.

Anyway, thanks for the help, next time I'll just cut out the outline and use the pattern like that without cutting all the internal lines.

Anton

Thanks for even considering my suggestion, glad I took the time out to try and help you out, won't happen again