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   Hey this is my first forum entry so if i did something wrong pls tell me. I want to make a solar trough. And i would like to cut out the basic shape of the parabola in wood and i want to have a near perfect shape ( so that all the light if as focused as possible) so i thought why not make a sketch and print it out. But i want the parabola to have an underlying mathematical function ( e.g. y=0.0016*x^2) but i dont know how to do it in any program i have accesses to, autocad for mac ,inventor fusion for mac and a solid edge st3 but im not very familiar with the last.All help is greatly appreciated.

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schpongo Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 05.Aug.2012 Location: Germany Using: Inventor fusion mac Status: Offline Points: 3	Topic: Create a parabola Posted: 05.Aug.2012 at 16:55
	Hey this is my first forum entry so if i did something wrong pls tell me. I want to make a solar trough. And i would like to cut out the basic shape of the parabola in wood and i want to have a near perfect shape ( so that all the light if as focused as possible) so i thought why not make a sketch and print it out. But i want the parabola to have an underlying mathematical function ( e.g. y=0.0016*x^2) but i dont know how to do it in any program i have accesses to, autocad for mac ,inventor fusion for mac and a solid edge st3 but im not very familiar with the last. All help is greatly appreciated.

philippe JOSEPH Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 14.Mar.2011 Location: France Using: AutoCAD Mechanical 2017 Status: Offline Points: 1493	Posted: 06.Aug.2012 at 07:25
	Hello, you should read the TIPS : N° 6606 ( direct link just here under ) : How to crete geometry from Excel. N° 8479 : How to generate 3D surfaces from mathematic expression. I hope that you will suceed with your AutoCAD for Mac. Please tell us if and also how you suceeded or not.

rappelzdzd Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 04.May.2012 Location: United States Using: AutoCAD2010 Status: Offline Points: 33	Posted: 06.Aug.2012 at 10:06
	hi,guy,first,you should know this below : N° 6606 ( direct link just here under ) : How to crete geometry from Excel. N° 8479 : How to generate 3D surfaces from mathematic expression.

philippe JOSEPH Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 14.Mar.2011 Location: France Using: AutoCAD Mechanical 2017 Status: Offline Points: 1493	Posted: 06.Aug.2012 at 11:38
	rappelzdzd, what are you trying to do by repeating all the sentences that you can read ? At least you could have corrected my grammatical errors ( crete --> create ).

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