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Lesson 5. More editing - Mercury Spacecraft Instrument Panel

John Glenn with Mercury Instrument Panel. Photo source: NASA (Not copyrighted.) Click on picture for a larger view.
In this lesson you will use these CAD commands:
Copy Polar Array
Text Rotate
Line Scale
Rectangle  

In Lesson 4, you drew a section of the Mercury capsule console. In this lesson, you will focus on another section. Look at the completed drawing below and visualize the steps involved. There are a few new commands you will learn that will make this project much simpler, including Polar Array, Rotate and Scale.

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Click here if you would like to see the original NASA drawing of the Mercury space capsule main instrument panel that was the basis for this project.

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Click here to start the lesson.

 

Step 1. Draw the console edge

Step 2. Draw a single dial.

Step 3. Add text and clock hands.

Step 4. Copy the dials.

Step 5. Add switches.

 

 

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