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Old 01-22-2011, 12:15 PM   #23 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by KamperBob View Post
t vago, what's the benefit of the tight-radius inside corners and flat tonneau-like surface between the raised portion and bed walls. I'm skeptical flow would attach that deeply into those gullies. Why not use larger fillets instead?
Heh... See, now you're picking on my poor man's CAD program. There's only so much I programmed into that Excel spreadsheet.

You'll notice that the curves on version 1 were a bit gentler than in the Excel workup.


Excel workup


Real life 1


Real life 2

That was one of the reasons I decided to use FoamulaR sheeting. It can be curved to form compound curves fairly easily, as long as the underlying frame shape can support the minimum bending requirements.
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