Hi Michael, thanks for responding..
The angles are these:
So the coned part is a 30 degree cone and the scallops are cut out at 25 degrees.
We did it with cylinders of radius .5, rotated at 25 degrees, which produced perfect conics down at the base area, though it left the cones slope (the 30 degree angle) "curved, or malformed" as a result.
The conics had me thinking it should be cut with a cone, which produces perfect edges and intersections. I just couldnt figure out how to size the cutting cone to get the resulting numbers? It could be just a big trig calculation that is beyond me. I just wasnt sure if I was missing something, or chose the wrong path.
Here is a result he acheived so far. Note how at the base of the cone there is some surface left from the different angles.. I could only acheive this using cylinders, and then patch rebulding the 30 degree cone with new straight lines and sweeping the conics up to a point.
I wondered if figuring out how to do it with the cone (I think this is more proper) was possible. (Cant figure out the size and height of the cone to use as a cutter to get the angle right)
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