
Originally Posted by
sierrabert
I am tryinig to draw the front of a roof on a model railroad car. This is a parabolic shape in 2 dimensions. I can't use either EXTRUDE or REVOLVE because they only (apparently) work on a circle, not a parabol.
I'm using AACAD 2022.
I've attached a drawing that has two roof fronts. One is the parabolic mentioned above, the other is a pointed roof front.
For those of you that are railroad nuts, these go on McKeen doodlebugs. They used both the parabolic and a knife-edge front on their cars. I have drawn 13 types of these cars that I want to 3D print and produce for sale. I'd attach a PDF of the "family" but it's 8mb!
If I can't do this in regular AutoCAD, can you reccomend which version of AutoDesk I should look at?