Pan

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Part of the Ty Harness "Back to the workshop" series, mathematics for the shop-floor worker. Dedicated to all men and women who have broken their backs with little or no reward or recognition, perhaps unaware they're solving complex problems on the fly just like overpaid engineers in the office. Late in your working life, you may find yourself back on the shop-floor by choice or necessity. You and fellow workers will solve problems quickly using rules of thumb or a quick chalk drawing, but some may be interested in using mathematics to help next time. Ask the boss, they'll think you're useless. Get it wrong, all sh*t jobs from then on. The shop-floor worker is never rewarded for solving a problem, nor slapped on the back. Here's one such problem I encountered a couple of weeks ago: A simple sloping side pan with specified overall dims and length of the slope. Cut test strips, used best judgment with corner notch - near enough for a 1-off. Rectangular pans and trays made from flat sheet material. Why make a tray with sloping sides? Stackable, sweep them out easily. Please note dt factor allows creating outside corner prep for welds. Set dt = 0 in the scad file for "water tight" corners for 3D printing.