Installing the Wings & Building the Engine Nacelles - page 5 |
Position the remaining ribs on their respective tick marks. Again, it is easier to snap the ribs into position if you temporarily break apart a rib, snap it in place using the center snap, and recombine | |
Create the top stringer by turning on Snap to Objects and click draw a line across the top nodes. Extend the line slightly past each end. Convert this line to a curve and smooth it. Adjust the elements to smooth out the flow across the engine. Finally apply a contour outside with an offset of 0.03 inch. | |
Add stringers at the sides (green) and bottom (yellow) using the same process. The bottom stringer only goes back to the double rib set at Stations 191.0/192.5. |
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