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  1. BalsaDust

    Airplane Design Fusion 360

    Ok lets start the wing. First I want to again start a sketch on the middle workplane. In the image below I have projected just that single top surface onto my sketch. Note over on the sketch palette a line type option is highlighted. I selected it and projected that top surface as a construction...
  2. BalsaDust

    Airplane Design Fusion 360

    Got a lot done this evening and will take time during my breaks at work tomorrow to post the steps getting this far. Takes quite a bit more time to take screen shots of it all as I go. I guess the easier approach would be to video it all in sections and I may do that for some parts.
  3. BalsaDust

    Airplane Design Fusion 360

    A few things to note that I haven't mentioned yet. In the browser to the left there is an eyeball image. If you click on it it turns on and off the visibility of that feature. This will get used a lot. Also note the expand arrows. Opening these up will show everything within that folder...
  4. BalsaDust

    Airplane Design Fusion 360

    Now I will sketch the top profile of the fuse onto the solid. The rear taper appears to be slighlty curved so I will use the 3 point arc command to draw it. You can see the start and end points of the arc and in the middle will be the fit point for it that defines the radius of the arc...
  5. BalsaDust

    Airplane Design Fusion 360

    Ok lets start actually drawing stuff. First things first in the create part of the upper ribbon click on the sketch tool (it's the one highlighted blue below). I'm going to draw the side profile of the fuse first and you can see the square greyed out where I will select that work plane. Once...
  6. BalsaDust

    Airplane Design Fusion 360

    It can be done as I have done it but for some items it becomes difficult. For example importing in an airfoil profile. It's is going to bring it in as a bunch of lines connected together. This will work but when you go to extrude the part every point where two lines meet will all be shown on the...
  7. BalsaDust

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    thread is started. please anyone follow along and ask questions as we go. http://giantscalenews.com/threads/airplane-design-fusion-360.11549/
  8. BalsaDust

    Airplane Design Fusion 360

    Now that it is sized properly you need to move it to a good location. So again in the browser right click on the canvas name and select edit canvas. the move box will open back up on the canvas. I like to line all my views up using the origin of the fusion file itself lines up with the center...
  9. BalsaDust

    Airplane Design Fusion 360

    Now comes the fun part and what I'm finding to be one of my favorite features of Fusion compared to other software and its the calibrate feature. on the browser to the left click the arrow to expand the canvas tab and then right click on the file name for the canvas we just inserted and select...
  10. BalsaDust

    Airplane Design Fusion 360

    Ok step 1 that is not shown is to take what ever picture you have and break it up into pieces (say its a 3 view you want to cut it into 3 different images). I do this by just opening it in MS paint or photo edit and crop it to only show what I want. Now open up fusion and lets get going. In the...
  11. BalsaDust

    Airplane Design Fusion 360

    Ok lets do this design tutorial. For simplicity I'm rolling with an Ugly Stick. First things first you want to find some reference photos to insert into your Fusion file to work with. I prefer a 3 view generally but the Ugly Stick isn't a full scale plane so you can't really find a 3 view. Its...
  12. BalsaDust

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    There are two free versions of it. One is the educational version which is what I use. The standard free version is kind of hard to find but it is there.
  13. BalsaDust

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    Will do then. I will gather a list of a few planes that could be the subject matter to easily show the workflow. I would say I could do the HondaJet design I have started but I'm still trying to figure out how to do different aspects of it so I don't think its the best one to start with...
  14. BalsaDust

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    Question for the group as a hole. I've been really enjoying learning Fusion 360 and each project my workflow is getting better. Who would be interested in a a thread that goes start to finish of designing an airframe? I would be happy to pick out a simple airframe to model up and show the...
  15. BalsaDust

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    Yeah I wish I had realized back before the pandemic when I was in Cummings GA for a PLC training class that EF was literally right around the corner from where we were staying.
  16. BalsaDust

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    Here you go @AKNick this is my next project I cooking up. 65" span and twin 80mm EDF's
  17. BalsaDust

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    very true. Lots of different way to do it. I've been working closely with one of the guys at EF and taking his advice on ways to approach things. The loft command is very powerful but at the same time so easily breaks if things aren't right.
  18. BalsaDust

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    What your saying makes perfect sense. In that case I would still do the two work planes and loft between them but I would also add in probably two more sketches intersecting those first two work planes with the shape of the curve you want it to follow and loft using guide rails.
  19. BalsaDust

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    Nice work. Sometimes simple parts get confusing just from overthinking it. Looking at it I would think a firewall on one sketch and then an offset workplane where the spinner would be with a simple sketch there and just loft between them. I recently went off the deep end into designing in...
  20. BalsaDust

    Scale Mick Reeves 1/3 scale Tiger Moth

    That looks like a nice little kit.
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