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height arc

Answers in Blue
chord
Arc length formula
radius 131.8000 height 9.0500 2303.6775 Angle rads 0.74547 Angle degrees 42.7121 half chord 47.9966 Chord 95.9933 Arc length 98.2526 most accurate formula

Arc Length formula

chord
96.0000

height
9.0500 0.372708098 122.7691474

Radius
131.8191

Arc length 98.2601 least accurate formula

Arc length formula

Chord 36.0000 Radius 26.0000 Angle rads 1.52936 angle degrees 87.6261

Half chord 18.0000

Right angle leg 18.76166 Arc length 39.7635

Height
7.2383

Number of segments per ring 16.00 Diameter of ring 12.00 horizontal angle on jig 11.25

angle of cuts on segments 22.50 ring circumference 37.70 vertical angle on jig 22.50

16 segment ring sam

11.25

22.50

sawblade 11.25

Tablesaw jig

8 segment ring sample

22.50 45.00

flip for e

45.0 sawblade

22.50

Tablesaw jig

22.50

Tablesaw jig

16 segment ring sample

flip for each cut

sawblade 22.50

Tablesaw jig

8 segment ring sample

flip for each cut

45.00 sawblade

blesaw jig

blesaw jig

Stair calculator
Stair height 102.90 Tread run 11.00 small angle in rads 0.59 Total stair run 154.00 Number of treads 14.00 Step rise 7.35 small angle in degrees 33.75 hypotenuse 185.21

Stair example calculation 11" tread

185.21"

10 11.00" 7.35" 33.75

154.00"

Stair example calculation 10" tread

173.75"

7.35"

10

10.00"

36.32

140.00"

102.90"

102.90"

36.32

Helical handrail calculator

Stair rise 7.250 cylinder radius (planview of helix handrail radius) 36.000 helix height 149.083 number of helix revolutions 0.50

Stair run 11.000 cylinder circumference 226.195 hypotenuse 270.905 radius of flattened helix (torus) 43.116

small angle in rads 0.583 small angle in degrees 33.389 handrail length per helix 270.905 total length of handrail 135.453
156.08"

Typical diameter of helical staircase

Helix

# of bd. feet used per foot of handrail 2.00

Cost per bd. ft. of lumber used $2.30

total cost $4.60

270

36.00"

Floor handrail begins 3' above floor

72.00"

Circum

A simple helix is the hypotenuse of a right triangle wrapped around a cylinder, where the base of the triangle is equal to the circumference of the cylinder.
7.25" 33.39

Typical diameter of helical staircase

Typical rise and run of a stair.

11.00"

Helix handrail

156.08"

149.09" 270.91" 33.39

36.00"

226.19"

Floor handrail begins 3' above floor Circumference of 72" diameter column is 226.19"
72.00"

Arc length formula

radius 28.8434 height 2.8493 156.2484888 Angle rads 0.89646 Angle degrees 51.3636

Arc Length formula

0.78817577 25.11030352

chord
50.5000

height
10.5000

Arc length formula

Chord 50.5000 Radius 30.0000 Angle rads 2.00072 angle degrees 114.6331

Rise
12

# of Plys
4

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Springback
0.750

Elastic factor 0.00

Correction percentage (decimal) 0.00

Tree type
Alder, red Ash white Aspen, quaking Basswood Beech Birch, yellow Butternut Cherry, black Cottonwood Hickory, pecan Hickory, shagbark locust, black Maple, silver Maple, sugar Oak, northern red Oak, souther red Oak, white

Elastic factor
-0.07 0.13 0.11 0 0.1 0.25 -0.19 0 -0.09 0.12 0.33 0.25 -0.28 0.17 0.17 0 0.15

Tested correction factor (decimal)

-0.36

Sassafras Sycamore Walnut, black Poplar, yellow cedar, incense cedar, western Douglas fir Fir, white Fir, mountain Pine, white Pine, lodgepole Pine, ponderosa Pine, sugar Redwood, young Spruce, white Purpleheart Rosewood Mahogany, african Mahogany, true Balsa Bubinga Teak

-0.24 -0.05 0.09 0.04 -0.3 -0.25 0.23 0 0.1 -0.16 -0.1 -0.14 -0.21 -0.26 -0.03 0.4 0.19 -0.07 0 -0.6 0.5 0.03

half chord 12.4999 Chord 24.9999 Arc length 25.8571

height arc

Radius
35.6102 Half chord 25.2500

Arc length 56.1343 Right angle leg 16.19992 Arc length 60.0217

chord

Height
13.8001

Desired arc Radius 45.0000 Desired chord 61.1882 Arc rise 12

Make Jig Radius 43.0810

1.49517 half chord 30.5941

Make Jig Arc rise 12.7500

0.789718772

PREDICTING WOOD SPRINGBACK

5.26"

CLAMP FORM

Y = springback X = rise N = number of plys

Y = X 2 N

85.6669 936

61.1882

30.33110519

43.0810

Dual Slope Compound Hold cursor over this cell for n Miter formula
side slope degrees 20 end slope degrees 0.34906585 30 0.5236 Wall angle degrees 90 1.5708

30.00
Side miter degrees 17.495 Bevel 39.856 End miter degrees 28.481

Right triangle - angle finder

short leg lengthlong leg length 2.45 3.76 small angle degrees 0.5774962 33.088

en

14.04

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0.30535

30.00

side slope miter cut degrees 17.4952 side slope 20

0.49709

end slope miter cut degrees 28.4812 end slope 30 1.0472

4.39 Bevel
0.69561 39.8557

1.22173

lines of vertical

wall angle

side end

slope degrees (smaller angle of right triangle) 37.629 0.914046383

wall angle degrees (from 180 degrees, example-enter 45 for 135 degree wall 90

crown molding compound miter formula

5 .63 1

1.570796327

miter degrees 31.406

bevel degrees 34.057

Right triangle - angle finder

short leg length 1.06 long leg length 1.375 0.656749182 small angle degrees 37.629

14.04

Regular polygon angle finder

number of sides 8 rads 2.356 degree of angle 135.000

Wall angle to enter into cell c3

45.000

108.00

lines of vertical
P a u l Hu n i g t n t n o

5 .63 1

miter cut 1 22 .22 0 degrees 31.4059894

0.54813792

wall angle

bevel cut degrees 0.59440383 34.05683077

side

side

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Varibles in Red Chord

102.129

Answers in Blue Radius

327.948 0.156345356

Rise
4.000

Arc length
102.546 323.9556316

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10430.33264

Chord
102.129

Rise 4.000

Radius 327.948
0.156345331

Arc length
102.546

2607.584

Alternate method of routing large arcs

4" rise

R 327.95"

4.48

Cut router base angle to match arc rise

4.48

Beam

Pins

Slide router, attached to base, against 2 pins to cut 1/2 of arc

sor over this

10494.33264
138.13"

8.00"

18.00"

R 327.

R 6.50"

8.00"

10.50"

11.31 102.13"

4.48

10.50"

2.50"

6.50"

1" = 17.7 Draftsman - Paul Drawing #

Remodel Kitchen Beam

Paul H unting ton

R 327.95"

6.72"

12.00"

11.31"

84.00"

1" = 17.777304682838"
Kitchen Beam

1/16/2003

Varibles in red
semi-major axis 14 Semi-minor axis 5

ELLIPSE PROPERTIES
Perimeter 63.088 Area 219.911 ratio 2.8 to 1 Distance between Foci 26.153 Hypotenuse length 14.866 string length 54.153 1/2 string length 27.077 1/4 ellipse arc 15.772 1/4 ellipse area 54.978

Answers in Blue

Two nails,pencil and string method

String

Foci

Two axis, router and extended base method

0.50"

= Semi-major axis (hole center to inside of router bit)

Router
Semi-minor axis

Router base extension

Router base extension

ellipse table template

3/8" dowel screwed to block

Answers in Blue
Semi-minor axis
0.224376731

Semi-major axis
40.00"

20.00"

hypotenuse 20.00"

40.00"

e method

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inside of router bit)

tension

Table edge template, make 4" oversize. And wood edge, about 1 1/2" oversize.

tension

Table edge template, make 4" oversize. And wood edge, about 1 1/2" oversize.

ellipse table template

wel screwed to block

make od edge, e.

make od edge, e.

1.618 ratio
height 11 width 17.798 height 5.253399 width 8.5

Architectural proportion
10.500"

2.63"

6.489"

Golden Mean Rectangle

4.25"

2.63"