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to ask if anyone thinks they have a way to measure or at least estimate the sq. in./area of parts?-pistol frame for instance- to use with the Casewell unit?
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One way to estimate the number of square inches of 3 dimensional parts is to make a piece of paper that has a grid of 1 inch squares drawn on it, or use target paper with 1 inch squares already printed on it.
Then see how many of the 1 inch squares can fold around the surface of the part or parts. You may need to cut the grid paper into rectangular shapes roughly matching the outline of the grid to the approximate outline of the frame or parts, or lay them out on top of the grid paper and start to fold up some of the connected squares of paper around the largest parts to begin to compile the aggregrate of square inches. It will be safer to err on the side of a few extra square inches than to err on too few.
