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Gentlemen, please evaluate my attempts to perform the development of an inclined cone, maybe there are comments and something can be corrected or replaced?
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No, I don't have a vision, as I've never faced the problem of determining the development/network of an inclined cone with Mathcad 😉
You are still missing a lot of details. For example, a is apparently supposed to be the total expansion in the y-direction and b that in the x-direction. Which is the major and which is the minor axis depends on the values you assign to a and b. I'm used to the term a for half the major axis, but you can use a for the entire minor axis, but you have to specify this clearly.
The apex of the cone is apparently at (d / 0 / h), but nowhere did you mention that the y-coordinate of the cone should apparently be zero.
Such information belongs in plain text in the Mathcad sheet, not added later and then only as an image!
Incidentally, theta is not a coordinate, but simply ONE angle, for which they had also chosen the term t (as an argument of the functions X and Y) shortly before.
And L is not the generating end, but its length for a certain angle theta.
What they mean by g and how they arrive at this calculation is still unclear - as is the exact meaning of dPhi. “Angle incerements” is not enough of an explanation, at least for me. The fact that the range variable i is redefined within the sheet is also unattractive in the way it works, even if I can understand the reason for this. You could also use programs with for loops instead of calculations with range variables.
So I cannot verify the correctness of your calculations.
However, I did quickly find an article on the flattening of an inclined circular cone.
The values r=5, X=3 and Z=4 given there in that text correspond to a=b=10, d=3 and h=4 in your sheet.
In this text, the maximum angle of the development is given as 130.8°.
Your sheet first gives 271.2° and then 268.8°.
Even if the angle in the linked text is only half the angle, this is still a significant difference. (I increased n in your sheet to 1000 ind the hope for a more accurate result and the max angle was even increasing up to 276°).
BTW, have you ever tried to print your plot result to a piece of thicker paper, cat it out and glue together to form the cone?
With a=b=10, d=3 and h=4 it does not look to me that we would get from your plot a base circle with a diameter of 10.
More detailed explanations about the meaning of the variables along with sketches showing the location of these quantities might help to understand what exactly you are trying to calculate and what the goal of your attempts is.
The picture you have included is also unclear.
One can only assume that it is possibly supposed to be the unfolding, the mantle of the cone.
But as I said, there is a complete lack of connecting words that could explain your calculations and, at best, make them comprehensible.
Werner_E,yes, this is a mantle of an inclined elliptical cone, maybe you have your own vision of how to do this?
No, I don't have a vision, as I've never faced the problem of determining the development/network of an inclined cone with Mathcad 😉
You are still missing a lot of details. For example, a is apparently supposed to be the total expansion in the y-direction and b that in the x-direction. Which is the major and which is the minor axis depends on the values you assign to a and b. I'm used to the term a for half the major axis, but you can use a for the entire minor axis, but you have to specify this clearly.
The apex of the cone is apparently at (d / 0 / h), but nowhere did you mention that the y-coordinate of the cone should apparently be zero.
Such information belongs in plain text in the Mathcad sheet, not added later and then only as an image!
Incidentally, theta is not a coordinate, but simply ONE angle, for which they had also chosen the term t (as an argument of the functions X and Y) shortly before.
And L is not the generating end, but its length for a certain angle theta.
What they mean by g and how they arrive at this calculation is still unclear - as is the exact meaning of dPhi. “Angle incerements” is not enough of an explanation, at least for me. The fact that the range variable i is redefined within the sheet is also unattractive in the way it works, even if I can understand the reason for this. You could also use programs with for loops instead of calculations with range variables.
So I cannot verify the correctness of your calculations.
However, I did quickly find an article on the flattening of an inclined circular cone.
The values r=5, X=3 and Z=4 given there in that text correspond to a=b=10, d=3 and h=4 in your sheet.
In this text, the maximum angle of the development is given as 130.8°.
Your sheet first gives 271.2° and then 268.8°.
Even if the angle in the linked text is only half the angle, this is still a significant difference. (I increased n in your sheet to 1000 ind the hope for a more accurate result and the max angle was even increasing up to 276°).
BTW, have you ever tried to print your plot result to a piece of thicker paper, cat it out and glue together to form the cone?
With a=b=10, d=3 and h=4 it does not look to me that we would get from your plot a base circle with a diameter of 10.
Werner_E thanks, I will study it.
On the other hand - I just made a test using a straight circular cone with radius 3 and height 4.
The flattened cone should be a sector of a circle with radius 5 and an angle of (6*pi)/5 = 216°.
Your first Phi.max gives us 213.3° with n=40, but 215.97° with n=4000. So at least in this special case your calculations seem to be correct.
Maybe your calcs are only valid for straight cones.
I gave it a try and could confirm the result from the pdf.
Using your data you should come up with an angle of approx. 99,4°.
Werner E, that's great, could you please send me the Mathcad 15 file? Thanks!
Here you are.
Sheet is equally well documented than yours 😉
Werner_E, thank you very much, yes, I have Mathcad 15, of course I don’t know how to program like that, although I want to learn, thank you again!!!
I prefer using programmed loops over range variables, but you can achieve a similar result using your approach with the ranges.
In my approach, I only went through half the ellipse and then mirrored the result on the x-axis because of the symmetry (y offset of the vertex is zero). That's why our two meshes look different. Mine is cut along the longer generator, yours along the shorter one.
Unfortunately, you never explained what you were thinking when you calculated the quantities “g” and the (obviously incorrect) angles “dPhi”, so it is impossible to say where your thinking went wrong.
Werner_E, is it possible to get your file in pdf format?
@NickKemaev wrote:
Werner_E, is it possible to get your file in pdf format?
Why? Aren't you using MC15 or MC14?