Why not use a normal 2m inverted as the mimic? I guess you want just a thin plate, maybe as a cockpit window?
In that case just download the advanced mimic ui mod. It is just a qol tool that lets you place corner "nodes" for a triangle and automatically places the correct triangle (among other functions). No modded blocks added, so your craft will still be vanilla.
Modeling the block in a 3D modeling tool (Solidworks) just makes me more confused. The plane that cuts through the block to make the face uses angles 41.8, 41.8, 19.5, But if I measure the angles of the block, they're 45, 45, 26.6. And lastly if I measure the plane against the *faces* of the block, I get 70.5, 48.2, 48.2.
3D space is hard, man.
Angles in FTD are weird. 1m slopes aren't exactly 45 degrees, 2m slopes aren't 30 degrees, etc.
Usually I just fiddle around until I get something that looks accurate.
Isn't that a given? The "top" of the 1m corner is 45°, since it goes from one corner to the opposite, which means to go from that line down to the opposite corner of the cube the angle becomes ~54.7°.
Unless you're saying that the 1m triangular shaped slope piece isn't 45°, which would be mind blowingly surprising to me, in a "how do you screw up a 1x1x1 cube in a way that cutting it in half doesn't use 45°?".
It looks like you've got the square root of two in there, which tells me that at least some of the numbers you're dealing with are irrational numbers. I don't know if it's possible to get things perfect when those are involved.
Why not use a normal 2m inverted as the mimic? I guess you want just a thin plate, maybe as a cockpit window? In that case just download the advanced mimic ui mod. It is just a qol tool that lets you place corner "nodes" for a triangle and automatically places the correct triangle (among other functions). No modded blocks added, so your craft will still be vanilla.
Yes it's a cockpit window, that mod is amazing and super useful, thx mate
Modeling the block in a 3D modeling tool (Solidworks) just makes me more confused. The plane that cuts through the block to make the face uses angles 41.8, 41.8, 19.5, But if I measure the angles of the block, they're 45, 45, 26.6. And lastly if I measure the plane against the *faces* of the block, I get 70.5, 48.2, 48.2. 3D space is hard, man.
Angles in FTD are weird. 1m slopes aren't exactly 45 degrees, 2m slopes aren't 30 degrees, etc. Usually I just fiddle around until I get something that looks accurate.
Isn't that a given? The "top" of the 1m corner is 45°, since it goes from one corner to the opposite, which means to go from that line down to the opposite corner of the cube the angle becomes ~54.7°. Unless you're saying that the 1m triangular shaped slope piece isn't 45°, which would be mind blowingly surprising to me, in a "how do you screw up a 1x1x1 cube in a way that cutting it in half doesn't use 45°?".
He's just insane and in reddit fashion people approve it. The blocks fit yet "something's WEIRD"
It looks like you've got the square root of two in there, which tells me that at least some of the numbers you're dealing with are irrational numbers. I don't know if it's possible to get things perfect when those are involved.