Hey guys
I am working in the middle east on a military aviation contract to support their maintenence department in the fabrication of jigs ,fixtures and maintenance stands etc. For a short period in my machinist career I worked as a cmm operator using pcdms( which was a mind blowing experience) Recently I am in a position were my cmm experience could help me.
I am working with a schweizer helicopter model 333. I trying to model this aircraft so it can assist me in my development of support equipment without the need of being around the aircraft. I have tried heavy lead wire in attemp to capture some features but it was very crude and very hard to maintain my reference points.
My question.
Is there any other methods out there that I can use to pull dimensions from something large (with contours) that is affordable(not like 3d scanners)