French Curves

French Curves

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27 April 2025 at 10:50 #795368
Michael Gilligan
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In eager anticipation of having the Bambu P1S … I was looking for simple/useful test files, and found this:

https://www.printables.com/model/327261-french-curves-set

It is, of course, 2.5D rather than 3D …

MichaelG.

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Ref. a nicely presented discussion of such curves is downloadable as a Poster: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/ny_pubs/713/

and might trigger some memories.
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27 April 2025 at 13:02 #795390
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Unfortunaltely holding them up to the screen does not work when you need to start producing your own CAD files to print😂

Still got mine in a draw but seldom used now.
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